Conversations with Lefty

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
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Frank, nice food for thought - great post...

Chris



"Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote in message
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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
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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".

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...

"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

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

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
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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.

"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

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.