35 to 40 years of fishing experience...need a friend?
Who says long distance relationships can't last? With having 17 years of experience myself I still have 18 to 23 years of catching up to do to be deemed worthy of you prowess! The best fishing advice that stuck in my mind enough to strive for the need to perfect came from an confidently knowledgeable elderly gentlemen with over 40 years
of experience. Only spoke to him over the course of a weekend then never saw him again. If he's still out there on a river along with his favorite
fishing partner, his wife of 40+ years I would let him know that not only has his wife taken it to a different level with his guidance I also have excelled with his gift of sharing. We first spoke as strangers with him telling me of the evenings fishing adventures, then discovering the fact that his adventures and mine were one event in itself. Once he started to tell the story my end of it also folded out like this. Fishing on a large river for summer runs during low flows and light gear hooking hot summer runs during the peak was not the problem. The zone happened to be a nice slick bordered by a heavy torential flow in a most southern direction. Keeping the cartwheeling, line stripping, arial psychopaths in check meant keeping them out of the southern flow. As the story go's from my end I hook a crazy fish that took me into the southern flow in just under 1.5 sec.. The only option was to implore the hook and run option. Keeping my tip up, line taught and running downriver like a man possessed I noticed a man on the other side of the river quick stepping it for his sled yelling over to me. He only made it halfway before the long line release. We exchanged nods and a quick thank you for the try. His story talked of a young man and a fish and his need to assist by nosing his bow to help triumph in the battle. While talking with him as we shared that one experience not only did he teach me his go to glowballing gem he also showed what fishing is all about. I often think of him during those cold dark nights glowballing when a loudmouth feels the need to criticize the terminator setup as I now call it. I relish in knowing personally the effectiveness of his setup and the 40+ years he spent narrowing it down to just that "The most proven method over a long course in time".

FJ...out.