In 1995 (46 years old) at one of our early Manly Man family/friends, camping/fishing trips, we all had been hardware and bait slingers. My brother-in-law pulled out a fly rod and wanted to show us something different he had tried out. The bunch of us spent several hours standing in the campground road trying to figure out how to cast this new line. Oh, how I wish we had a video of that!!!

Well the next year, over half of the crew (including me) showed up with fly rods and caught some fish. Shortly after that I started tying my own flies to try to save some money. HA!!
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