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Article: Elitism, Keeping Secrets, and Fly Fishing in Utah
- Article from:
- Western Folklore
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright California Folklore Society Winter 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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I first began fly fishing in 1997. I took a night class at the local community college to learn how to cast, but soon learned that this most elegant and obvious element of the sport was the least of my worries. I didn't know anything about flies, or what is known as "presentation," and I certainly didn't know where to fish. Everything I knew about fly fishing up to that point I had learned from the 1992 Robert Redford film, A River Runs Through It. I later discovered Norman Maclean's novella, but neither the film nor the novel, frankly, taught me much about fly fishing beyond the sense that it was somehow special.
After moving to Utah I soon learned that fly fishermen tend to be rather ...