Armed with a fishing rod and a reel, Jim Dodson embarks on a memorable journey with his seven-year-old daughter, Maggie. Only weeks after the break-up of his 11-year-long marriage, Jim Dodson decides to take Maggie on a fly-fishing pilgrimage across America, in search of clear running streams, elusive fish, a chance to heal his wounded spirit, and to explain to his daughter the vagaries of life and love. It has been said that life is what happens while you're waiting to go fishing. In this text, the author discovers through fly-fishing the virtues of patience, of following the wisdom of the course and an abiding belief in plain dumb luck. As the journey deepens, and Dodson and Maggie discover the special relationship that exists between a father and a daughter, it is the virtues Dodson learnt whilst fishing that will help the faithful travellers find a way home again.