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I love fly fishing. Actually, I love to hunt as well, but only so I don't have to buy the expensive, diseased meat from the supper markets.

Posted by Joe Tex | May 30, 2008 10:32 AM
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Fly fishing is the best form of solitary recreation. It takes patience and precision to outwit a creature with a brain the size of a thimble. I wish I could dedicate more time to its practice, but alas, I have put shamefully low hours into it in the last couple of years.

Posted by laterite | May 30, 2008 10:38 AM
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Fly fishing is the best. It's the most active form of fishing because you can actually walk around in the river, rather than just sit in a boat. (Fishing from a boat is fund too though.)

Posted by Lobot | May 30, 2008 10:43 AM
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Damnit, 'Fun' not 'fund'

Posted by Lobot | May 30, 2008 10:45 AM
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Owning a boat often requires lots of funds though!

Posted by laterite | May 30, 2008 11:09 AM
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It takes patience and precision to outwit a creature with a brain the size of a thimble.
The fish don't have any trouble outwitting me.
I love to flyfish but I NEVER catch anything, because I suck worse than any fisherman who ever lived, and because I'm going after steelhead in the North Fork of the Stillaguamish, which is hard. But I don't care; it's the pleasure of standing up to my nipples in fast-moving freezing water in February in a beautiful, peaceful place that makes it worthwhile.
Posted by Fnarf | May 30, 2008 1:00 PM
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Witnessing a truly great fly fisherman is something to behold. My ex-father-in-law is one of those people. Next to him, I always felt like a huge clumsy oaf waving a tree branch around the water.

Posted by laterite | May 30, 2008 2:24 PM

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