Potluck Time in the City

by Jack Naves

‘When Worlds Collide’ is a way of expressing different opposing things coming together into a single moment. One example would be a huge international city like San Francisco being only minutes away from world-class halibut and striper fishing. When most of us think about fishing, we imagine getting back to nature and escaping the city.

On a more scaled down level, the fishing opportunities that Sacramento offers are another example of worlds colliding. Within earshot of roaring freeways and blasting train horns, the Sacramento and American Rivers provide metropolitan fishing to over two million nearby residents.

While most of us need departure f...