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Walter Simbirski & Group...
[GH] From Dusty Sprague (Co-Chairman of the MCI Testing Committee) :
Syd Smith is right on target, in my view.
Dusty
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[GH] Let's take the heat off for a moment and have some fun.
These are a few quotes sent by Tim Lawson.
SEE IF YOU CAN MATCH AS MANY OF THEM AS YOU CAN TO THOSE WHO GENERATED THEM :
Hints: Two of them are from a past U.S. president. More than one quote comes from the teachings of the same person. A few of them come from a collection by the Napa Vally Fly Fishers. A few come from well known verbal teachings. I lifted a couple of them from texts you have probably studied.
Gordy,
Gary started it, so how about a "Quotes Quiz"?
"Share your knowledge, don't display it"
"You cannot drift against a back wind"
"You will not be lucky"
"The double haul just helps you throw your mistakes farther"
[GH] (Also: "Some people use their hauls to throw their mistakes farther"
"When I run out of arm"
"I don't care what you call it, just do it"
"It's only fly casting"
"Standing on your line does nothing to improve the cast"
"Nothing good happens when you false cast with a weighted fly"
"Life's too short"
"You can't expect skinny line to turn over fat line"
Tim
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[GH] I'll add a few others :
" It's a single haul unless you give back line"
"A double haul can be done on either the back or forward cast but is normally done on both."
"The measured chord that subtends the arc of the fully bent rod becomes the true casting or effective length."
" Cackhanded. casting with the right hand up over the left shoulder (or vice versa)"
"Any knot begins to slip just before it breaks."
"Stop the back cast abruptly when your arm is vertical and the rod is 22 1/2 degrees back of the vertical position."
"The essence of learning is doing. The essence of teaching is inspiration."
"Pushing the hand straight ahead when you stop the rod will cause the rod tip to do the same. This is the cause of all tailing loops."
" The term enlightenment casts has little to do with the Buddhists' sense of the word."
" If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church."
"Use the haul like a gear shift to change line speed....."
"Fly-fishing may well be considered the most beautiful of all rural sports."
"For all men are equal before fish."
"Sometimes a poorly designed knot that is firmly closed is stronger than a well designed knot that is not firmly closed"
"A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it."
"To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy."
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after."
"Don't use any more power than you did on your last false cast. Haul faster. Let your haul hand be your accelerator."
"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?"
"Now try to make the same distance cast with half the effort."
"Game fish are too valuable to be caught once."
"The gods do not deduct from man's allotted time those hours spent fishing"
Gordy
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