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Article: TROUT BUMS--Difficult decision to retire Old Whitey

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November 30, 2006
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A hundred years ago I would have had a horse to get around on -- maybe even a team of horses to do some work -- but I am sure I would have had a favorite hay burner among them.

He would have been a special, dependable beast with a personality simpatico with my world view, like a human pal with really big teeth. An old nag named Red that would have hauled me and my gear to the river: a fly-fishing horse. Imagine casting huge caddis flies from the saddle at dusk. Now that is cowboy.

This, though, is 2006 -- and my 1989 Isuzu Trooper has been about as close to that loyal horse as I'm going to get.

This fall I had to replace my fishing truck. After 16 seasons in the sun, Old Whitey was retired ...

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