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First year I flyfished was 1959, I was 13. I caught a total of three trout that year on flies, and I remember each and every one of them! The first was a brookie while swinging a #14 light Cahill wet fly. The second was a rainbow, caught on a #12 olive nymph. This was the 1st trout caught on a fly I had tied. The last for that season was a brownie caught on an extended body lt. cahill dry #18 that I had also tied. Funny, after all these years, I still remember it like it was yesterday!
Didn't have a rod of my own, used one of my dad's. He had two that he let my brother and I share. One was an old beat up Montegue(sp?) with a heck of a set to it, the other, a steel rod. My vest was an old hunting vest that had seen better days. I cut the seams between shot shell holderes to make little pockets! Everything else went into the game pockets. We made our own dry fly floatant with parafin and carbon tetrachloride. No bottle would hold this stuff without leaking. Always had a crust of wax around the pocket that held that bottle!
Got to admit, the technology has come a long, long way!
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