It's always intriguing to read an "outsider's" take on the sport, especially when it offers a unexpected observation. Hannah Wiest goes fishing in Wyoming's Platte valley and discovers that fly fishing is mostly -- it seems -- about numbers. "Lesson five: Movies don't know squat about fly fishing. They always show some desirable guy hanging behind a girl, moving her arm for her. That would be annoying. And they say to do a 10 o'clock, 2 o'clock motion." In the Caspar, Wyoming Star Tribune.
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