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George -- I'd certainly be glad to see more info from, as you call yourself, a "non-elite."

As I mentioned to you at the first Pond Boss Conference, I cast like I learned who to use a bull whip. No finesse. I mostly don't use flies -- I like to use redworms from my compost pile. As a consequence, I just use a flyrod setup to try and trick fish by using worms on a very light tippet/leader, without any weights, and without any kind of bobber. I'd be embarassed to do this in public waters where somebody might see me.Ken

I was cleaning up around the vice this morning, and I think I tied the best fly named after a famous fly fishing story. If you've ever read the Big Two-Hearted River, I give you the Big Two-Hearted Worm.



Hemingway wrote this story when he was 25, and I read it when I was probably 12. Looking back at it, there are a couple of mysteries, one that is well know...that Hemingway really was describing his secret spot on the nearby Fox River. But the other mystery is why Hemingway's Nick Adams took all the trouble to use cat gut leaders, but when it came to flies, he used grasshoppers, and that would be the real ones.