The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Oh, Keeper_of_the_Light...

How dare you expose the truth! As you shine the light on the Revisionists and dilettantes who are happy living a lie that fly fishing is a sport that is accomplished by using bobbers, aided by a belief that a fish eating a helpless organism requires a highly developed skill, and that assistance in this sport is accomplished with the use of the latest equipment that can be obtained with an American Express Gold Card, you risk exposing them to truths about, and with which they may not be able to deal without many future years of psychological counseling.

It is not the Revisionists but only those who are truly sneaky and devious who understand that fly fishing is not a sport but that it is instead an exercise in fraud and deception! Those who have achieved enlightenment already equate success in the pursuit of the trout (using an artificial fly) with fraud and deception which is completely dependent on making the presentation of a fake version of an actual source of nourishment (whether or not of the order Ephemeroptera, Plectopera, Trichoptera, Diptera, or Odonata) using tools and techniques of deception intended to literally ambush the prey. Those who are skilled at this fraud and deception understand that the prey is too stupid to realize that there is a hunk of iron hanging out of the ass of what looks like a tasty bug!

Those who are practitioners of this dark art (not sport) tend to hide in shadow and, contrary to the practice of numbskull neophytes, rarely divulge their secrets. You have transgressed against the code of Fraud and Deception by exposing the false beliefs that have heretofore provided satisfaction to those who are so unworthy of trout that they may as well take up golf! Let these golfers maintain their belief that they are being successful with the bobber, heavy shot, and rare circumstance when they stimulate a creature with a pea brain to rise and take an offering from the thousands of similar looking morsels of nutrition stuck in the surface film. They cannot obtain success when knowedge of available food (and artificials) and casting skill are required.

Watching a brightly colored piece of fluff, a balsa-wood sphere, or an inflated rubber balloon drift and drag in the current may some day be an Olympic Sport; how far away from Rhythmic Gymnastics can it be? But is is not substitute for knowedge of Fraud and Deception.

The wading staff that accompanies the fly rod carrying master of fraud and deception (thy rod and staff) is carried for smacking snakes, retrieving flies left by poor casting dilettantes in high branches, and the tripping (in deep water) of associates who resort to fishing with fluff, balsa-wood, or balloons.

You are an agent provocateur who may as well cast down the fly rod and take up a Center Pin Rig.
Paul