The Unhooked Life: We’re taught to secure, to hold, to control. Fly fishing offers a different lesson.

Fish barbless and you choose presence over pressure. You hold steady without tearing. You handle with care - and you let go without spectacle. Over time, that quiet discipline reshapes how you move through the world.

In this reflective collection, angler and storyteller Mark Walinske explores catch-and-release as a model for leadership without leverage, marriage without control, work without possession, and success without residue. This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a field guide to participation without ownership.

39 pages short (long).