Article: An alternative to golf; Killeen, rubber industry's own, gives busy executives primer on fly fishing.(News)

Byline: Edward Noga

Ah, fly fishing. The rod, the line, the fisherman are one with the cosmos, magically lifting the Royal Coachman into the air, landing the fly at the precise spot in the stream where that big brown trout lies.

Alternately: Fly fishing. Backlash halts the line in mid-flight, flings it 20 feet up into a tree, where it becomes hopelessly tangled except for the hook, which somehow snags the fisherman's hat.

The joys of wetting a line in the great outdoors are obvious, but the "dark side'' of fly fishing is part of the sport, too, according to Tim Killeen, a longtime rubber industry executive who has written a book on the subject, ...

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