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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