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Article: Fishermen never too old to learn on the fly
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- April 7, 2009
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Spend a few years wagging a flimsy fly rod and flinging clumps of
feathers and fur at finicky fish and you're bound to learn a few
things. A few of those lessons will actually come on the water.
Others will come during streamside chats with others who have been
similarly afflicted with the fly-fishing bug.
Still others only dawn on you after spending six icebound months
vowing to figure out exactly what you've been doing wrong.
This morning, nearly a week after the "official" open-water
opening day, we're still a month or more away from truly prime
fishing conditions.
With that in mind (and the stream waters rising across the
state), it's time to take inventory of a few of the things that ...