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Fly Fisherman, September 1989.
Sounding more like the Barsness we find in the gun mags.
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I can relate to a bush league fly fisherman..
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macrabbit,
You must have quite a collection of old fly fishing magazines.
I also wrote about fly fishing more than a little for Field & Stream and Gray's Sporting Journal. In fact, I eventually wrote more articles for them, because they paid better than Fly Fisherman, and far better than any of the smaller fly fishing magazines. :-)
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I do have. I'm bingeing through the stacks before I offload them. Four or so boxes left to go. I don't think I'll run into any of those other titles.
I'll stop posting if the shouts get loud enough. But I thought you might enjoy (or get embarrassed by) a trip down memory lane, and some on the 'Fire might wish to dig through their own stacks for the issues I cite.
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It's fine with me! The only thing that's jumped out so far is how I've semi-forgotten some of my articles published back then--which I guess happens both because of now qualifying for Medicare, and having published around 2000 articles over the past 40 years.
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I ran into an article by Mule Deer about hunting the plains in an old Gun Digest, I think 1989, a while back. Thoroughly enjoyed it, as it described the country I hunt in as well. Fun to find treasures like that! If I remember correctly, the same issue had the article by Petzal about selling all his wood stocked rifles to finance the change to synthetic stocks. That one made me sad!
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Glad you liked the story! I remember the Petzal article. It sure stirred up a s---storm among the "traditional" custom stockmakers, but I can personally testify that Dave didn't sell all his walnut-stocked rifles. I restocked a Kimber of Oregon .22 for him at least a decade later.
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Yep, for many years. Once in a while I still crank out a few, but mostly simple stuff. Don't have as much time anymore for things like tying flies and checkering gunstocks!
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