Bug Torture

June 6, 2007 By: Marshall Cutchin

Hard to know whether Seabury Blair Jr.’s commentary on the sport is self-deprecating or just worrying, but he does make some pretty funny observations about the extent of the passion. “Fly fishing is by far and away the most interesting and scientific form of angling. I am certain it was mistakenly invented by the Marquis de Sade, when he tied a yellowjacket that stung him to a line, intending to whip the insect to death at the end of a flexible rod.” In Washington state’s Kitsap Sun.