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Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

Ed Zern

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Ed Zern
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 13
Died: 1994
Died: March 25
Columnist
Environmentalist
Fisher
Humorist
Writer
Farmington
West Virginia
Fishermen
Fisherman
Fishing
Honest
Born

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... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.
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...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.
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People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
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Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.
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It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.
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