Why Fly Fish?

14 Jun Why Fly Fish?

From fly fishing essay in
Gear Patrol

Once upon a long time ago, just after I arrived in Telluride in the 1990s, my newish husband Clint engaged the young son of a friend to teach both of us to fly fish. You know how it goes. Shiny new objects. On to the next. But I remained interested, read “The River Why?”  – and this article in Gear Patrol by Ed Estlow caught my attention.

“I’ve heard that question answered a lot of different ways in 23 years of flinging sharp wire & feathers at the finned ones. For some, it borders on the mystical. People talk of otherworldly feelings or suspension of time (as in time spent fishing doesn’t count against your allotment here on planet Earth). For others it’s a religious experience…”

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