i didn’t know it, but golfer jack nicklaus is also a fly fisherman, a self-described “low-handicapper” with the long rod. he has a piece in golf digest about a trip to russia (hmmm, maybe the kola penninsula is my dream trip…) with his sons to fish for atlantic salmon. it’s really quite good. 
there’s lot of photos, though i must say i was disappointed that for all the pictures of them on the private jet, his sons standing around looking good on the tundra, etc, there is only one picture of a fish and it’s not a very good one and hard to find in the story.
oh well.
as any “real” fly fisherman will tell you, fly fishing is about catching fish second and more about the scenery, the company, the serenity, the bugs, the water, the time to think, etc…
yeah right.
there are lots of good scenery shots like that one, most with what look like long shudder speeds and heavily filtered to give the landscape a very orange, arctic glow. the writing is pretty good, i don’t know how much he actually wrote and how much the editors of golf digest helped him along.
the one thing i’m thankful for is that there’s only one paragraph spent comparing fly fishing and golf… they may each be things of beauty to some people — and sometimes to the same people — but i don’t see any point in trying to compare the two and i think that paragraph is weak because he says things that aren’t really true about either fly fishing or golf.
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