“It’s like the same chance of flipping a poker chip in the air and having it land perfectly on its edge and upright,” he says from a prone position on his couch. His tone is matter of fact, nonrevealing, much like a poker face would be to a voice. He has a full gray beard and curly dark hair on the cusp of covering his ears. An open Orange Crush can sits in front of him. 

This is Doug Andres’ trailer. Cartons of cereal boxes and hanging pots and pans litter the small but functional kitchen. Cigarette smoke permeates the living area and partially tied callibaetis hatchmatchers sit neatly in a pile on his tying desk. A few cases of Doug’s homemade huckleberry and marionberry preserves rest on the floor…

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above Doug has names on all four of his float tubes. Steamboat Willie is named after the first Mickey Mouse cartoon. His others, U.S.S. Enterprise and U.S.S. Calibaetis are named from Star Trek. His fourth, S.S. Minnow, is from Gilligan’s Island.