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Article: For Chicago-area fly fishermen it's have rod, must travel.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2004
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Byline: Lew Freedman
CHICAGO _ The image of his fly-fishing beginnings is as fresh for Bob Swan as it was 36 years ago when he walked into a hardware store in Green Bay.
"I met a neat, old guy and there he was sitting at a fly-tying vise," said Swan, 60, a viola player for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. "I bought an old bamboo fly rod sitting in the window. The first cast I ever made I hooked about a 9-pound steelhead. I was also new at tying knots and the knot came undone."
Swan's brief tale explains a lot about fly-fishing. Mostly about how it will hoodwink a novice into thinking it is easy, but then swiftly shoot down the notion.
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