Zen and the Art of Fly Fishing

featuring R.J. Mutton, CSG’s flyest angler

Charleston, South Carolina. Lowcountry. 

R.J. Mutton is out for Redfish.

Rising tide waters have flooded the shoreline and schools of the game fish are hidden among the tall grasses and reeds. He cuts the motor — Redfish can hear and feel the vibrations — and slices through the water with the grace of a gondolier on a Venician canal. 

Fly fishing is the perfect hobby for the kind of man who can find inner peace in preparation and understands that patience truly is a virtue. If there is a wisdom to the kind of past time that has no guarantee you won’t get skunked — the angler term for going home with no fish — our chief financial officer has, most assuredly, found it. 

Planning. Persistence. Presentation. Keeping one’s eyes on the prize. A perfect alignment of the same core values and practices that inform the work that we do at CSG every day.

Ask him if he considers himself a good fisherman and he will quickly demur. Everytime he thinks he’s got it down, the game has a way of keeping him humble. But our CFO must be doing something right —  before the day is up, he’s going to reel in a 26-inch trophy and release it back into that flooded Charleston river. 

Because R.J. Mutton is a good fisherman.