Article: Mind your tippets

In his book, "Practical Fishing Knots," Lefty Kreh - America's High Priest of fly fishing - writes, "An unwarranted mystique shrouds the simplicity of building tapered fly-fishing leaders."Lefty's probably right. Far be it for any of us less-honed fly fishers to question the Master. A down-to-earth guy, this is Lefty's way of saying that newcomers should not be intimidated by it all.

Fly fishing ain't rocket science, you know.

And yet so much of the fly fishing sport is enshrined in mystiques, from waders and rod styles to fishing vests, the best sunglasses and brands of dry fly flotant. Old timers, who have been casting artificials long before it became a outdoor vogue, scoff with contempt ...

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