Mark Few’s focus fuels Gonzaga’s consistent success

FILe - In this Dec. 29, 2016, file photo, Gonzaga head coach Mark Few, right, speaks with guard Nigel Williams-Goss (5) as Williams-Goss goes to the bench during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Pepperdine, in Spokane, Wash. No matter what the Zags seem to do, Gonzaga coach Mark Few and his team never quite seem to get the respect they deserve. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File) FILe - In this Dec. 29, 2016, file photo, Gonzaga head coach Mark Few, right, speaks with guard Nigel Williams-Goss (5) as Williams-Goss goes to the bench during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Pepperdine, in Spokane, Wash. No matter what the Zags seem to do, Gonzaga coach Mark Few and his team never quite seem to get the respect they deserve. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)

By Associated Press March 3, 2017 6 min read

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Fly fishing is a puzzle, the solution ever-changing, even on the same stretch of water.

Success requires reading the river, its riffles and seams, flows and clarity, temperature, locating lies of holding fish.

Attracting a strike can take an entomologist’s mind; deciphering the hatch and the weather, knowing insect life stages and finding the fly pattern to match, mimicking the movements with a flick of the rod tip.

Even when everything is right, the fish still might not bite, possibly full from a previous feeding or spooked by something out of the angler’s control.

Mark Few loves this algorithm of the outdoors, working the angles to see that flash, feel that tug.