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To: manalagi who wrote (901)	7/10/2005 6:03:51 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24213

Hopefully I will have a chance in my life time to fly fish You know what is even funner than that? Fly Jefferson Airplane jeffersonairplane.com Rat@gottabe>bozothanclaps.org

To: manalagi who wrote (901)	7/10/2005 11:39:50 AM
From: Bill on the Hill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 24213

I had no idea that flyfishing would have such an affect on people. Almost like flyfishing had been invented by Karl Rove. Like its a pastime that Adolf Hitler enjoyed. Oh, My God! Kind and gentle spirits inhabit most flytiers and proponents of this endeavor. I find myself prostrated in front of the God of Trout begging as humbly as possible for forgiveness for my human weakness and love for hooking them. Understanding this symbiotic dance between fish and man has been my pursuit. We are locked into this dance of fish and man with no escape in sight. Someday they will find me sitting on the side of a river, no rod, no vest..... I will have thrown them to God of Trout and submitted to pass on to whatever consequence made by me and those tortures I created. To incarnate through life after life as a trophy rainbow. Caught for hundreds of years in this dance between man and fish. Locked into leader by bony jaw. What does the trout see when I approach it to release it back to freedom? What fear flows through its streamlined body as my forceps approaches the fly that hold its attachment to me? I let one off the hook last week that ended up staying between my legs for over ten minutes. Perhaps this fish believed that I had no connection whatever between its earlier capture. So it stayed beside me because I was the agent of its freedom. Or did it see my legs as simply a tree to create an eddy in the current where it could regain its strength? Man always wants to prescibe human qualities to other life form. All these replies about fishing and releasing a few trout. Amazing how we find concern over this as thousands perish from lack of food, bombs, murder, rape, disorders of magnitude that I can only imagine. As Africa becomes a wasteland of death from AIDS we debate sentient status of trout. Humans are certainly an odd lot. And it is just as it should be. I accept that. Bill on the Hill