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Lefty Kreh is in the fly shop at Bass Pro Baltimore today. He's signing
books and just sitting down and chatting with folks. No real line, so I sat down with him to chat. Got a book signed (Lefty's Little Library - Modern Casting Methods) and gave him one of my "Frank's Fitin' Craw." He was kind and said he liked it. On business: We talked about the demise of Fishermans Edge, Joe Bruce's fly shop that will be closing next weekend. He said that one of the biggest problems of small fly shops is that they don't sell cloths. They take up a lot of space, but they're a constant source of revenue. You can sell someone so many rods and reels, but the folks that drop in all the time will pick up a shirt and spend some cash a lot quicker than they will drop 3 to 5 hundred dollars for a new rod. On knots: He no longer fishes the improved clinch to attach fly to tippet. He has gone to the slip knot http://www.graysofkilsyth.com/fishing.htm#Slip%20Knot 3 turns for 5 lb test or over, 5 turns for under 5 lb test. He demonstrated the strength against the improved clinch, each time, the clinch broke, but not the slip. On young women in red cars: Dangerous, they'll run you over. On the "Kreh Number": He'd never heard of it, and thought it was rather funny. We are fast approaching a time where we won't have the innovative likes of Kreh, Clouser, Wulff, Bruce and the rest. I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. -- Frank Reid Reverse email to reply |
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Frank, nice food for thought - great post...
Chris "Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote in message ... Lefty Kreh is in the fly shop at Bass Pro Baltimore today. He's signing books and just sitting down and chatting with folks. No real line, so I sat down with him to chat. Got a book signed (Lefty's Little Library - Modern Casting Methods) and gave him one of my "Frank's Fitin' Craw." He was kind and said he liked it. On business: We talked about the demise of Fishermans Edge, Joe Bruce's fly shop that will be closing next weekend. He said that one of the biggest problems of small fly shops is that they don't sell cloths. They take up a lot of space, but they're a constant source of revenue. You can sell someone so many rods and reels, but the folks that drop in all the time will pick up a shirt and spend some cash a lot quicker than they will drop 3 to 5 hundred dollars for a new rod. On knots: He no longer fishes the improved clinch to attach fly to tippet. He has gone to the slip knot http://www.graysofkilsyth.com/fishing.htm#Slip%20Knot 3 turns for 5 lb test or over, 5 turns for under 5 lb test. He demonstrated the strength against the improved clinch, each time, the clinch broke, but not the slip. On young women in red cars: Dangerous, they'll run you over. On the "Kreh Number": He'd never heard of it, and thought it was rather funny. We are fast approaching a time where we won't have the innovative likes of Kreh, Clouser, Wulff, Bruce and the rest. I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. -- Frank Reid Reverse email to reply |
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"Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote in message ... ....I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. Scribble.....scribble.....scribble...... Got it! :) Wolfgang who is not much interested in enduring any references to kevin spacey's library in "seven". :( |
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On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:43:47 -0700, "bruiser"
wrote: "Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. Lefty's pretty much taken care of his end. g -- Charlie... |
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"Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. Lefty's pretty much taken care of his end. bruce h |
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On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:12:03 -0400, "Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf
wrote: Lefty Kreh is in the fly shop at Bass Pro Baltimore today. He's signing books and just sitting down and chatting with folks. [snipped] On knots: He no longer fishes the improved clinch to attach fly to tippet. He has gone to the slip knot http://www.graysofkilsyth.com/fishing.htm#Slip%20Knot 3 turns for 5 lb test or over, 5 turns for under 5 lb test. He demonstrated the strength against the improved clinch, each time, the clinch broke, but not the slip. Looks similar to a Uniknot or even Orvis knot, I believe... On young women in red cars: Dangerous, they'll run you over. On the "Kreh Number": He'd never heard of it, and thought it was rather funny. We are fast approaching a time where we won't have the innovative likes of Kreh, Clouser, Wulff, Bruce and the rest. I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. Already done, ya just have to buy their books ;-) /daytripper |
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Already done, ya just have to buy their books ;-)
/daytripper Yeh, well, I was getting a volume of "Lefty's Little Library of Fly Fishing" autographed. He opened the jacket and saw Bob Clouser's signature there. "Anybody got any White-Out?" Then he opened to the title page, and found he'd already signed it 3 years ago (okay, I forgot). Luckily, I had another volume with me. Hey, Lefty's a local, can't get rid of the guy :-) -- Frank Reid Reverse email to reply |
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Frank Reid wrote:
Already done, ya just have to buy their books ;-) /daytripper Yeh, well, I was getting a volume of "Lefty's Little Library of Fly Fishing" autographed. He opened the jacket and saw Bob Clouser's signature there. "Anybody got any White-Out?" Then he opened to the title page, and found he'd already signed it 3 years ago (okay, I forgot). Luckily, I had another volume with me. Hey, Lefty's a local, can't get rid of the guy :-) Before I went to the Keys with Bruiser, Willi, and Charlie, I bought a used copy of Fishing the Flats on Amazon. It was signed by Kreh and Sosin. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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"rw" wrote in message m... Frank Reid wrote: Already done, ya just have to buy their books ;-) /daytripper Yeh, well, I was getting a volume of "Lefty's Little Library of Fly Fishing" autographed. He opened the jacket and saw Bob Clouser's signature there. "Anybody got any White-Out?" Then he opened to the title page, and found he'd already signed it 3 years ago (okay, I forgot). Luckily, I had another volume with me. Hey, Lefty's a local, can't get rid of the guy :-) Before I went to the Keys with Bruiser, Willi, and Charlie, I bought a used copy of Fishing the Flats on Amazon. It was signed by Kreh and Sosin. During my college and guiding years, I had a collection of autographed books. When I was going overseas, in an effort at 'slimming down', I hauled all my used books and albums off to a local bookbuyer. Later, I remembered all those autographs I had acquired, and sadly thought how happy some SOB will be when they buy some book and find it signed. Some were rather classy, like I got Stephen King (who guest-taught an english class in college) to autograph a first edition of Carrie.... I don't even want to think of what that is worth now. --riverman |
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Frank Reid wrote:
On knots: He no longer fishes the improved clinch to attach fly to tippet. He has gone to the slip knot http://www.graysofkilsyth.com/fishing.htm#Slip%20Knot 3 turns for 5 lb test or over, 5 turns for under 5 lb test. He demonstrated the strength against the improved clinch, each time, the clinch broke, but not the slip. Lefty loves those new knots. They sell books. :-) On young women in red cars: Dangerous, they'll run you over. But you'll die happy. :-) On the "Kreh Number": He'd never heard of it, and thought it was rather funny. Funny like stupid, or funny like funny? We are fast approaching a time where we won't have the innovative likes of Kreh, Clouser, Wulff, Bruce and the rest. I hope someone's taking notes and getting all this info down. We have more innovation in flyfishing now than we have ever had, but with decreasing returns. -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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"rw" wrote in message m... Before I went to the Keys with Bruiser, Willi, and Charlie, I bought a used copy of Fishing the Flats on Amazon. It was signed by Kreh and Sosin. Ooooooooh!!! Wolfgang and thanks for sharing. |
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"riverman" wrote in message ... ...I got Stephen King (who guest-taught an english class in college) to autograph a first edition of Carrie.... I don't even want to think of what that is worth now. About $250 per credit* in the UW system. Wolfgang *just guessing |
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"Frank Reid" wrote... Lefty Kreh is in the fly shop at Bass Pro Baltimore today. He's signing books and just sitting down and chatting with folks. Stan Gula had a good conversation with him, too, but it had nothing to do with fly fishing and they weren't sitting down at the time, IIRC. -- TL, Tim http://css.sbcma.com/timj |
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Did Lefty tell the story about the 3 foot tall pygmy killing the huge Rhino?
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On knots: He no longer fishes the improved clinch to attach fly to tippet.
He has gone to the slip knot http://www.graysofkilsyth.com/fishing.htm#Slip%20Knot 3 turns for 5 lb test or over, 5 turns for under 5 lb test. Looks a lot like a knot he recommends in the September 2004 issue of Fly Fisherman mag, which arrived yesterday. There, he calls it the "fisherman's knot" or "16-20" knot. Good grief, is it September already? (I know mags are dated ahead, but this is ridiculous!) vince |
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"Warren" wrote in message . .. wrote... "rw" wrote in message m... Before I went to the Keys with Bruiser, Willi, and Charlie, I bought a used copy of Fishing the Flats on Amazon. It was signed by Kreh and Sosin. Ooooooooh!!! Wolfgang and thanks for sharing. And thank you for adding your always valuable commentary. When I run out of toilet paper, prints of your posts come in *extremely* useful! Jerkoff...... I get this vague sense that our friendship ain't exactly at its zenith right now. Is that correct? Wolfgang who knows he shouldn't feel this hurt and betrayed.....but..... |
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