" My own conversion to fly-fishing , (from worm-fishing), if not quite
so dramatic or traumatic, was in some ways even more prolonged and
uncertain. By this I do not imply that all older bait-fishermen are too
soaked in sin ever to switch to fly-fishing; in fact I know of two
notable proofs that it can be done if one really wants to; one is my
old friend, the late L. P. "Busky" Barrett, who was past seventy when we
taught him fly-casting; the other, a younger fishing pal, Anthony "Gigs"
Gagliardi, was in his mid-forties when he made the switch, last summer
further reddening our bourbon-flushed faces by catching the largest
brookie of the lot. "
Robert Traver
Trout Magic (1974)
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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.)
Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", �
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html
Humorist, half-assed poet, and sometimes red-neck Texan.
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"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D. Moore - � [2004]
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