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Article: MUSEUM SALUTES ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY OF UNITED STATES' FLY FISHING ROOTS.(Sports)(Column)

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July 3, 1996
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Byline: Ed Dentry Rocky Mountain News Outdoors Writer

``When asked what was best about human beings after the fall, God pondered and then replied, `On balance, fly fishing.' ''

- Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 15th century.

Fly fishing goes back so far that the earliest known words appeared in the third century, in a Latin account of fishing dry flies for brown trout in Macedonia.

It is much older than most Americans imagine, including many who jumped on the bandwagon - in uniforms of neoprene, pastels and graphite - in the wake of The Movie.

A River Runs Through It attracted swarms of newcomers to an already booming ...

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