Herman Nijland wrote:
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I even fish maggots on a flyrod if it delivers the goods, and I couldn't
care less if it's called flyfishing or not.

Well, FYI, it's not, it's called bait fishing. There's nothing wrong
with that, where legal, but it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi that
real fly fishing has in abundance.

If you want to fish with bait, where legal, that's cool. I enjoy
sitting in a lawn chair, Budweiser at the elbow, waiting for the
tip of my rod to move ever so slightly when a catfish takes the
big gob of worms I've heaved out into the Mississippi River.

But that's not fly fishing either and when I fish that way I've
found that my feces is malodorous, whereas when I fly fish it is
not. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry