A very entertaining email. I would like to offer one tiny piece of evidence in support of 'Fly Gal's' (whomever's) accusation that you don't fly fish. I seem to recall watching a very, very funny video somewhere on this website that shows you with your first (?) steelhead on fly. I think your dad is narrating the tape, and he's even funnier than the video footage!

In your defense, I think the video was taken a few years ago and maybe your fly technique has improved since then. From the above photo, it looks pretty good but then again it might be a body double, too. (You really can't trust anything a guide says or puts on his website -- it's all a conspiracy.)

Any chance that 'Fly Gal' and 'Fisherman from Kirkwood' (I think that's his handle -- the guy who nailed you for falsifying river conditions so as to keep other fishermen away) are related? If not, they should be . . . but only if they promise not to reproduce.