"No, nobody has all the stuff you need for fly-fishing. It would require a warehouse to store just half of it. You see, no matter how much stuff you have for fishing, there's always more stuff you need. There's always new great stuff that you absolutely have to have, even though you didn't know you needed it before you saw it in the catalog. Fishermen spend hours pouring over catalogs to find new stuff they can't possibly do without. It's wonderful!"
"Yeah, fishing does sound like it might be fun!"
"Fun!, Raymond, I can't begin to tell you how fantastic it is - an evening hatch coming on, the light soft and mellow on the water, and you lay a dry fly soft as thistledown next to the swirl of a big trout. Hey, let's go fishing right now! C'mon out to my warehouse and I'll get you outfitted."
"All right!"
"Listen, Raymond, you're going to love fishing. Never again in your whole life will you have nothing to do. I'll show you all the techniques, too - how to cast and tie knots and everything, even how to wring water out of sandwiches. Ahh, takes me back to my youth."
"Wait a minute," Raymond said. "I thought you had gotten too old for this sort of thing."
"Where did you get that idea!" Sixteen isn't old, Raymond!"
"Sweet Sixteen" taken from the "Grasshopper Trap"
by Patrick F. McManus
Owl Books, 1st Edition - 1986
ISBN 0-8050-0111-5
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======================================================== Jimmy D. Moore - Retired Scout Executive, BSA, Moderator Fly Fishing World Email List,Member VFB, HCFF, GRTU, FFF, NAFC - Life Member. Contributor - Texas Fish & Game Magazine. Outdoor Humor Writer. Author of "MOON HOLLER MISFITS" Click URL for info. http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html VFB member pics: Found in VFB Scrapbook-Click below. <http://www.virtualflybox.com/scrapbook/index.php> "Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to a Quarterback." ========================================================
