| Every fly fisherman has succumed to temptation--and tried something
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| like this at one time or another--haven't they?
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| The guy who showed me this one told me he used to fish
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| Rapalas on the Madison when he was young. Although he
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| did toss them with a spinning rod, he fished them like dry flies,
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| he said. He cast them out of a tin boat and drifted them almost motionless,
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| over-top the deepest, bluest troughs in the river. Big browns would
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| come up out of nowhere, he said, and smack them so hard it was scary.
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| Makes you wonder about how to make a long fat floating minnow
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| that would be a tad easier to cast. Maybe a lightweight version
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| of the Twinkie would work.
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Forgotten Flies/