Dave LaCourse wrote:
This review surely smacks of obscene consumerism:

"A must for the Rich Fishing Addict, August 28, 2005
By G. Collector - See all my reviews

If you have unlimited funds and time this book provides the backbone
for a lifetime of fishing trips to exotic locales. "

Gee, and I don't have it. How 'bout you, Richard?

d;o)




The book is extremely consumerist and elitist. It's pretty much porn for
fly fishermen. I'm sure you're familiar with the genre. Orvis has
mastered it.

When people know that you like fly fishing they give you the strangest,
most useless, kitschy stuff. T-shirts with "bite me" and such. :-)
Fly-fishing porn is at least better than that.

What surprised me was that I've fished in 18% (9 in 50) of the places
named in the book -- mostly the ones the ones in my more-or-less
familiar parts of this country. You don't have to be rich to fish Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming, California, not to mention Colorado, New Mexico,
Oregon, Washington, Utah, and even Nevada. Those of us in the Pacific
Coast and Rocky Mountain West are fortunate.

An important part of fly fishing, for me, has imagining and anticipating
a new place or a new species. (More often than not, the reality doesn't
live up to the dream.) The person who gave me the book knows that, so it
was a thoughtful gift.

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