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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Quoting John Gierach, one of my favorite authors. and "Even Brook Trout Get The Blues."
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Forgive my sidetracking for a moment, but like Dean, I'm a fan of Gierach. I don't recall the quotation exactly, but one of my favorite passages concerns a friend of John's who, after visiting the author's house (a very modest affair) in his beater pickup truck, asked how it was that John could afford costly bamboo rods and live in a "place like this" and drive a "truck like that?" John pointed out that it was because he afforded fine fly rods that he lived in a place like that and drove a truck like that. That passage hits home with me, but hey, what we value is what we value.
I often tell my wife that priceless and worthless are very similar in that there is no money involved.
Okay, back to the fishing trip...