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Article: OUTDOORS; Tying Saltwater Flies Is a Labor of Artistry - New York Times
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- The New York Times
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- March 3, 2002
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Virginia Woolf reported that she often received her inspirations for writing while in the bath. Bob Popovics, 6 feet 3 inches and built like a fullback, often finds inspiration for his revolutionary saltwater flies during long car drives. Such was the case with his Bucktail Deceiver, a huge wisp of a fly that, were it tied any more sparsely, would simply be the visualized thought of a fly. ''I was driving home from Massachusetts when the idea hit,'' he said. ''I had been tying deer-hair streamers, massive ones, for a few years. Now I wanted something with lots of action, a big silhouette and virtually no mass. I must have thought for 200 miles, and then it came to me: tie the deer hair in ...
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Article: Fly fishing can be effective on muskies
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
May 20, 2001 ;
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...Fly fishing can be effective on muskies By BOB RIEPENHOFF Journal...prompted Pat Ehlers to make a long cast and gently drop a fly in that general vicinity of the Pewaukee Lake shoreline shallows...long, lean and mean-looking fish turn and torpedo after the fly before inhaling it. At the bow end of the boat, ...
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