Re: Confessions of a Red Wiggler Fisherman

by Herb S.
(Southwest Micigan)

WOW! Les Albjerg, that is one of the finest pieces of expository writing I've ever seen. Period. And I've been reading fly fishing books, and many others including textbooks, for decades. Thank you!
Herb S.

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.

We've all had situations where seriously chewed up flies kept catching fish after fish after fish. It is no sin to tie flies that come off the vise looking seriously chewed up.