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Article: Old fishing vest stores memories
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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The ugly tan fly vest was there when I made my first tentative
(and mostly futile) casts.
It was there when I caught my first fish on a fly ... and much
later, when I caught my first on a fly that I'd tied myself.
I was wearing that droopy mesh-and-nylon vest when my semi-frozen
rod snapped on a 24-degree opening day. And the vest got drenched
when I slipped on a rock and performed some impressive mid-river
acrobatics in the East Outlet one hot July afternoon.
As long as I've been a fly-fisherman - which, as such things go,
isn't too long at all - that vest has been with me. It held all the
things I thought I'd need ... but never did. And it held all the