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Article: SALTWATER FLY-FISHING CATCHING ON.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1998
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Byline: Patrick Joseph Universal Press Syndicate
For most of us, the image of fly-fishing is one of an angler standing in a mountain stream, patiently casting for trout. That is surely its most common face, but is by no means the only one. An increasingly popular version of the sport is saltwater fly-fishing, in which fly rods are used to cast imitation baitfish and shrimp to a wide array of ocean quarry.
It's nothing new. Fly fishermen have been pursuing bonefish and tarpon in the shallows off the Florida Keys since the late 1940s, when legendary fishing guide Jimmy Albright led such light-tackle luminaries as fishing editor Joe Brooks and baseball ...