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Rescuing Chuck Stranahan
13 Aug 2025
Masako made about ten casts that slipped her dry fly beneath an alder overhanging a deep pool. Nothing came to the fly. She moved up ten feet to where a limb drooped lower over the dark water, made another cast—and rather than hooking a trout, she hooked the very tip of the limb. She thrashed at it for a while, but the fly was fatally ensnared, so she broke it off. That was the practical thing to do. But I had tied that fly to her tippet earlier, and I could see it easily—its white wing pois
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