Wayne Knight wrote:
Peter A. Collin wrote:

One chum of mine saw John Geirach on a western stream, and commented on
how he didn't catch as many as my friend. I would hate to be famous and
always have that stress on me to exceed. Many people I know who are in
the business lie about their catches, just so they don't sound like just
another schmoe.



While I don't find Geirach as enjoyable as I once did, I can not recall
him ever claiming to be anything other than a writer of fishing stories
and a lover of cane rods. I doubt he stresses out over "having" to
catch fish and on his home water would probably outfish most of us and
call it *lucky*.

Oh, I realize that. However, he is "in the fly fishing world" and would
inevitably bear scrutiny. Hell, he even wrote about taking crap from
his own friends when promotional blurbs from publishers would aggrandize
him more than they thought appropriate.