Writer, journalist, editor and author Jim Burns is on the staff of Occidental College in Los Angeles. His popular blog, lariverflyfishing.com, covers the fishing, politics and science of that waterway’s billion-dollar recovery effort. A career fly fisherman, he and his son, Will, have slapped water on most of Southern California’s streams, rivers and trickles. He lives in San Gabriel, California, one mile from the 350-year-old Mission and a rivulet of the San Gabriel River borders his yard.