[VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

[Jimmy D. Moore]

" In this emergency I began to think like a fish.  What would I do if I 
were that big and I had a fisherman where he had me?  I would chew the 
living hell out of him!  Since I had no desire to be simultaneously the 
most famous and deadist fisherman on the Beaverkill, I got out my knife 
to cut the line . . . .   But the brown got between me and the shore, 
and I was having a terrible time with him. . . . You never heard such a 
commotion in your life!  The fish didn't swim around much, but sort of 
floundered and yelled.  I suppose you think a trout can't yell.  Well, 
this one did, and swore too.  I hauled him almost across the river by 
main strength.  Then the line went slack. The big fish came toward me, 
half out of the water.  Something hit me in the eye and on the nose, and 
began battering me, and all the while the fish was assaulting me, it was 
shrieking and cursing."

The setting for this tall tale? Roscoe, NY, near the Antrim Lodge and 
just below the Arena bridge, during mayfly season at the trout-fishing 
capitol of the Catskills.

An Honest Angler, the best of Sparse Grey Hackle (1998)
Edited by his youngest daughter Patricia Miller Sherwood.
In case you haven't read Sparse, his real name was Alfred Waterbury 
Miller.  He was born in 1892 and was the icon of the golden age of fly 
fishing, the confidant and recorder of a generation of fly fishers - 
George La Branche, Edward Hewitt, Harry and Elsie Darby and Vincent 
Marinaro, to name a few.

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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.)
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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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