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Article: Mind your tippets
- Article from:
- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- June 15, 2008
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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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