If a paraloop adams works, I will be in.
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I am in.
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cient to
support his habit. But the most important lure remains the knowledge and
ingenuity of the fisherman."
"The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"How do you catch so many fish? "Reply "you have to keep the fly in the
water."
Some one trying fly fish out. Just wanted to cast.
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lemma is this : Perspective
is a perishable commodity."
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be
alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
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"To learn is a natural pleasured not confined to philosophers, but common to
all men."
Aristotle "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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PS Quotes will be sporadic. My wife has 6 weeks or radiation treatments
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"Often by plopping the fly down in back of the trout you can evoke an almost
instindcitive slashing charge and strike."
George Amy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Although fly fishing has its heroes, slavishly cloaking them with oracle like
omnipotence stifles the curiosity and creativity essential to the sport."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where
you least expect it, there will be fish."
Ovid "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Fishing is more than sport. It is a way of thinking and doing, a way of
reviving the mind and body."
Roderick Haig-Brown "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Walton's contribution was to describe angling, simply, cheerfully, and
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would that it is more fun to
learn by fishing."
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"Fly shape has tow entirely different aspects. One is its outline, what fly
fishers more often call its silhouette. Silhouette is important because it
helps define what kind of food, if any, a fly is designed to suggest.The other
aspect of shape has no name, but it's important because it
"Every river that flows is good and has something worthy to be loved."
Henry Van Dyke "the Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"The tradition of hats on fishermen is so deeply ingrained that it's almost a
breach of decorum to fish with a naked scalp. And there are practical reason
for this tradition. " shade and keeping rain off.
Gerald Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"
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Does your wife agree?
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Finally! At last all my purchases of multiple rods, multiple fly reels, lines,
vises, leaders, multiple fly
ation is the better
part of luck."
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"What rule of priority makes the mayfly more important than the beetle, or the
caddis more charming than the cricket?" A J McClane
"Practical Fly Fisherman"
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I have no idea of what he is talking about. what is 4h ??
Neville
"In all honesty, the best way to get over any uncertainty about 4h relation of
fly size to hook size simple is to study different kinds of flies tied in
different sizes."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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Old Fisherman's saying True in my case.
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Will try to get a pictureo f the fly in the next day or so.
Rick
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Nice crappie. What fly or flies did you use?? Chuc
"One of the most marvelous attraction of the fly-fishing sport is that you can
take it just as casually fanatically as your heart desires."
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allowing us to see life as it is outside our temporal trials and concerns."
Turhan Tirana "Fly Fishing"
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"As with any endeavor of the human spirit, fly fishing thrives not on the
attainment of perfect truth but on the unending quest for it."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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of scenes in which he fished."
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only very brief periods among this first group of smart trout when one food
form becomes available in large quantities."
Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials."
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"Quiet places should be enjoyed. Save the quiet places first.
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employments with fishing can compare."
Thomas D'Urfery "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"... it might astonishing that terrestrial insect activity and the excellent
fishing opportunities it provides are by and large ignored by the majority of
fly fishermen."
Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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PS no quote tomorrow. I will not b
"I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, inspired, and aware of
the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself
in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it."
Jimmy Carter "The Fisherman's Guid
"Most experienced fishermen are reconciled to fishing condition mirroring life
in its imperfections."
Turhan Tirana "Fly Fishing"
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"So trout fishing demands that the angler approach with an open mind, not
overly bound by tradition thatmay not fit the situation at hand."
Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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PS True for other species also.
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when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeil "The Fisherman's Guide to life"
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imple thoughts
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"Some fishermen seer no fish and foolishly believe that the river is empty."
Henry Van dyke "The Fisherman's Guide to LIfe"
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"One of the most marvelous attraction of the fly-fishing sport is that you can
take it just as casually or fanatically as your heart desires."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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"Fishing the terrestrials is a more relaxed affair. There is no rush to put
your fly over as may fish as possible, as quickly as possible before the hatch
dissipates." Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Nature marches to beat of its own drum. And fish bite when they're ready, not
before. An angler's frustration will not force a fish to bite. Nor will his
worry."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"One of the most dependable marks of any well-tied fly is how neatly the head
is finished."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
Juvenal :"The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Denise had become aware of the gestalt common to most experienced
fly-fishermen that catching fish isn't necessary to declare a fishing day a
success The process is more important than the results."
Turhan Tirana
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"Flies will always have a special mystique, even for the most jaded of
anglers."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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In the deepest self, fishing is the most solitary sport, for at its best it is
all between you and the fish."
Arnold Gingrich "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"the preposterous luck of a beginner is well known to all fisherman. It is an
inexplicable thing."
Zane Grey "The fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Fly tyers and fishers are the darnedest bunch of tinkerers you'll ever meet,
and there's at least once exception to every rule."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring out Flies"
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"At the outset the fact should be recognized that the community of fisherman
constitutes a separate class or subrace among the inhabitants of the earth."
Grover Cleveland "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Fly fishers cast a few things that lie right at or just beyond the limits for
what we've defined a fly to be."
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I saw was an
eleven-inch yellow perch. I was thrilled. Looking down a the fish wavering
just under the surface, I felt as I thought6 God must feel, in common and at
one with creation."
Turhan Tiran "Fly Fishing A life in Mid-Stream"
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"The greatest fishing secret ever? Patience."
Donald Jack Anderson The Fisherman's Guide to
Life"
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flawlessly over pristine
water accessible only other privileged and connected to the eternal by some
grace limited to the bright and successful, will become fed up with the demands
of reality."
Turhan Tirana "Fly Fishing"
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"With terrestrials there is seldom the same precariousness inherent in the
gamble of hitting an aquatic insect hatch "just so" - at precisely the proper
date, under just the right weather conditions."
Gerald Almy "Tying a & Fishing Terrestrials
Fishing A Life in MId-Stream"
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"There is a final moment of unyielding patience which, in Angling, so often
makes the difference between fish and no fish."
Sparse Grey Hackle "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"So frequent the casts. so seldom the strikes."
Arnold Gingrich "The fisherman's Guide to Life"
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This was my fishing this morning.
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u can take it just a
casually or fanatically as your heart desires. What is important is or you to
decide, not for others to dictate."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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"And in fact, the more attuned the angler to the deadly game of life in the
stream world, the better prepared he will be to enter it."
Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"The wary angler in the winding brook, knows the fish and where to bait his
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Ovid "The Fisherman's Guide to LIfe"
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"I have experienced such simple joy in the trivial matters of fishing and
sport formerly as might inspire the muse of Homer or Shakespeare."
Henry David Thoreau "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"In fact, petite mayflies signal just the beginning of the days' feeding.
Terrestrials will offer excellent sport for the same fish over the next twenty
hours - right up to the next day's hatch."
Gerald Almy "tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Flies have an existence quite apart from the business of catching fish. The
only thing fly fishers do more of than fishing is talking about it, and the
thing they talk about more than catching fish is the flies they use."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figur
ish[s diet at that
particular time."
Gerald Almay "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Pushing significant amounts of water with a fly requires at least three
things - big size, stiff materials that don't yield to the water, and big flat
surfaces perpendicular to the direction the fly is moved."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "figuring Out Flies
I am the opposite. Heavy bones so I don't gloat.
Rick
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The same is true for us terrestrial bip
"Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of
human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man."
Herbert Hoover "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Body shape thus becomes the fundamental concern of all terrestrial patterns-
high floater and low floaters a like. Realistically presented,
duplication of the body form represents nine-tenths of a strike."
Gerald Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
Ric
"Many of the world's best flies never make it into fly shop display cases or
mail-order catalogues. Why? Because they're too time-consuming to tie."
Chuck & Sharon Tryon "Figuring Out Flies"
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"The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted span the hours spent fishing."
Babylonian Proverb
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"If you want to catch fish, you better be fishing in the right pond."
Old Saying
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I would enjoy seeing either of the ways you do it. You would probably gt more
attention on You Tube.
Rick
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"No one knows with undeniable certainty what a fish thinks wen it sees a fly,
much less understands the logic train of how it thinks about it."
Chuck & Sharon Tyson "Figuring Out Flies"
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Considering many of the patterns that I tie and use are not commercially
available, then the cost of tying is cheaper.
Rick
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"Man can learn a lot from fishing. When the fish are biting, no problem in the
world is big enough to be remembered."
Oa Battisha "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"Modern terrestrial imitations are an angling event of near-legendary stature.
The frustration of casting to terrrestrial-smutting has been ended."
Ernest Schwiebert "Remembrances of fivers Past"
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sting cycle, lending
more control over the fly and time for pinpoint, thought-out casting."
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'The man that goeth to the river for his pleasure must understand the Sun and
the Wind, the Moon and the Stars, and set forth his tackle; accordingly."
Thomas Barker "The Fisherman's Guide to lLie"
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'What scares fish is not the line itself, ten or twelve feet from the fly, but
the manner in which the line comes down onto the water: whether it falls with
a plat or lays out smoothly and quietly."
George Almy "Tying & Fishing Terrestrials"
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"But whenever we go down to the water and rediscover an important less about
life - sure enough, that's a keeper."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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seem to be stimulated by twitching the fly? Or is that
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"But once on the water most terrestrials are incapable of making sufficient
disturbance to warrant imitating.&
"But once on the water most terrestrials are incapable of making sufficient
disturbance to warrant imitating."
Gerald Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"
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"Whether we visit the neighborhood pond, the bubbling brook, or the open seas,
the message of the water is the same: Be prepared, be patient, and enjoy the
moment."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"In many terrestrial feeding situations, the lateral line hearing-sensing
system of the trout may be more important to him than his eyesight."
Tom Almy "Tying and Fishing terrestrials"
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"Fishing restores perspective. When we escape to the solitude of quiet water,
the day's fleeting troubles seem to evaporate into the mist; in the presence
of Nature, spiritual order is restored."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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"The fact is that few fishermen have the patience to wade as quietly and as
stealthily as desired."
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"A good fishing trip, like a well cooked meal or a well-lived life, always
ends a little to soon."
Criswell Freeman "The Fisherman's guide to Life"
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"From all this it should be clear that wading is a tactic that comes into play
only after much fishing has been done."
George Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"'
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"Clearly, kneeling and crouching along a trout stream are not pleasurable
undertakings. ... But they are very effective ways to catch fish - sometimes
the only way."
George Almy "Tying and Fishing Terrestrials"
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George Allen "The Fisherman's Guide to Life"
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