The Dawn Patrol Diaries: Fly-Fishing Journeys under the Korean DMZ

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James Card

From the Author: I lived there for 12 years
working a an English teacher, freelance journalist
and a fly-fishing guide

While I lived there I discovered many beautiful
trout streams deep in the mountains and that is
what the book is about, along with fishing for a
number of other species of fish.

Later I opened a guide service and many of my
clients were US military members.

It's a book about fishing but almost every chapter
contains something about the Korean War, from
finding foxholes while bass fishing near the Pusan
Perimeter to fishing for river tarpon on the Geum
River near the Kunsan air base to the POW camp on
Koje Island (I live a short hike from its old
ruins). There is a chapter about the Jiri
Mountains and the partisans that still fought up
there after the war ended. And of course, a
chapter about the DMZ.

The book opens with two letters from my great
uncle that served in the war. He was a welder and
in a letter he mentioned that one of his buddies
welded his name on bridges that they built. That
sent me on a quest to find one of those bridges
near the Punch Bowl (I never found one, instead I
found trout streams).

The book closes out where I live in Wisconsin and
with me visiting the Korean War Memorial in
Plover, Wisc.

The book is dedicated to those that served in the
war.

232 pages, paperback
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