The Economist (US), November 28th, 1992
Fly fishing has inspired some exquisite writing throughout its history extolling its virtues. There are different methods and customs of fly fishing from place to place, but those enraptured it describe their involvement in almost spiritual terms.
A NEW film by Robert Redford, "A River Runs Through It", is all about fly-fishing. It was inevitable that one day Hollywood would make a big movie about the only field sport with pretensions to being an art. It brings out the poetic in almost every writer who tries it. Words like tranquil and hypnotic and contemplative and communion and mystical and...
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