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Article: FRYING PAN WELL WORTH THE HARDSHIPS.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- January 17, 2003
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Byline: Ed Dentry
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
BASALT -- The crowds have thinned on the Frying Pan River, which makes for a fine winter retreat if you don't mind frozen fingers and ice cubes in your rod guides.
On a winter day ruled by gloom and horizontal snow, even a fishing guide might be excused for dreaming of being elsewhere. Most guides and anglers have gone elsewhere.
``When it's like it was today, I think of sweat running off my nose out on the flats in the Bahamas,'' said Kyle Holt, one of the few guides from Basalt who actually found employment in the midwinter gale. ``Of course, when I'm sweating in the Bahamas, I think of being ...