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Elitism, Keeping Secrets, and Fly Fishing in Utah
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I first began fly fishing in 1997. I took a night class at the local community college to learn how to cast, but soon learned that this most elegant and obvious element of the sport was the least of my worries. I didn't know anything about flies, or what is known as "presentation," and I certainly didn't know where to fish. Everything I knew about fly fishing up to that point I had learned from the 1992 Robert Redford film, A River Runs Through It. I later discovered Norman Maclean's novella,...
