Mark Bowler, the editor of Fly Fishing and Fly Tying, has published a good few articles that I penned over the years. These are located in the “Last Cast” feature at the end of the magazine and they tend to be a little quirky and whimsical in nature. (I don´t consider myself in any way enough of an expert to offer anything else!) He asks that I refrain from posting the articles he publishes here on the blog until a few months after they are printed in the magazine for copyright reasons and I am happy to comply. While rummaging on my computer, I spotted three articles that whose respective statutes of limitations have expired and so I thought I might post one of them now and the others will follow soon enough. These are the versions I sent to the magazine and they may have been subjected to further editing.

Here goes the first which was published in October 2022. I hope you enjoy it!

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