“All Bugs Are Created Equal”

Connecticut River Watershed Council river steward David Deen talks about the good and bad of riparian insects and the similarities between magic and fly fishing. “If you strip away the flyfishing mystique of fancy equipment, well meant advice and the blizzard of ‘guaranteed’ fishing equipment; you are left with the true art of fly fishing: illusion. Both the practiced magician and the flyrodder foster their illusions with props.” In theBrattleboro Reformer.