Article: OUTDOORS; In Fly Fishing, Carter's Record Can't Be Assailed - New York Times

In the tight little world of fly fishing, everybody gets graded for skill, and that includes Presidents. Dwight Eisenhower was a middling caster, and his passion for the sport was intermittent. Herbert Hoover, trained on the great streams of the Pacific coast, was more dedicated and by most accounts more skilled than Ike. The jury is still out on President Bush, who has been photographed fly fishing on the river at Kennebunkport, Me. But the buzz in fishing circles is that he prefers bait casting and spinning. So far, only Jimmy Carter has entered the hallowed territory of true expertise. Since taking up the sport in the early 1970's on Georgia's Chattahoochee River, Carter has passed the ...

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