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From:Pardon My Backcast by Alan Pratt.
*Editors note* Ofttimes an author will write a whole book
and put the 'clincher' in the very last paragraph. Alan Pratt
has done that. So here is the last paragraph of his book.
"I like trout fishing. I'm not obsessed, mind you, as my
wife and kids insist, but nonetheless I would prefer to be on a
stream or lake with a fly rod than doing something regularly
regarded as productive. Not pretending to have encyclopedic
knowledge of the sport, I still can boast of enough information
to be comfortable among my peers, and enough of the argot of
the game to hold up my end in a cocktail conversation.
Fortunately, I learned to fly fish early and have found
it a great touchstone to my enjoyment of life, and to remaining
somewhat sane in a rather insane world. If I have written and
illustrated the game with seeming irreverence, forgive me, for I
do so with deep affection, and the hope that, with humor and
humility, you too may come to enjoy fly fishing as much as I do."
~ Alan Pratt
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