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    An AFTMA fairy tale.
    An AFTMA fairy tale.
    An AFTMA fairy tale.
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    An AFTMA fairy tale.

    By Tim Rolston

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    The Fishing Gene Blog has been running for in excess of three years. With 80 posts to date and and average viewership in excess of 1000 a month, a mess of useful, thought provoking and sometimes humorous anecdotes related to the authors abiding passion. Fly-fishing.

    This book is a collection of twelve of the most popular posts over the years. Those stories or instructions which have proven to be most read by the public at large and now made available in a more readable and convenient format.

    Do you ever wonder why you can't cast your new hi-tec rod as well as the older one that you loved so much? Ever pondered why it can be so tricky to fool a cold blooded creature with a brain the size of a pea? And of course what flies do guides use when hackles are hard to come by and expensive?

    This book is filled with humorous and thought provoking anecdotes on all aspects of the sport.

    The author's passion has been fishing since exiting the womb, it’s not his fault, he has "The Fishing Gene" in his DNA and here he unselfishly shares some of the experience and experiences of a lifetime of fishing.

    Including:
    An AFTMA fairy tale.
    The Fishing Gene
    What about the HOOK?
    No Hackles
    Bog Standard Parachutes
    Journey to the Centre of the Universe
    Two Kinds of Rock
    Soft Hands, Soft Rods and Soft Tippets
    An Interesting Puzzle
    Fly-rod Guarantees
    Brain Power
    Giving it the Finger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Rolston
    Release dateMay 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476170237
    An AFTMA fairy tale.
    Author

    Tim Rolston

    I am an outdoorsman, not a computer boffin, or at least that was the picture when I started this a few years back. Since then I have become caught up with the advantages of electronic media. Steep learning curves continue, frustrations abound but out of that crucible have I think come some really worthwhile publications. How to Make your own fly fishing lanyard was the first and remains the most popular of all the titles. Plus it's free. Then "Who Packed your Parachute" an investigation into better ways to tie parachute flies followed.Still an experiment and free to anyone. Recently my book "Learn to Fly-cast in a Weekend" previously published in hard cover was converted to electronic format making it available to a far wider audience. It has received great reviews and then came the comprehensive and highly innovative "Essential Fly Tying Skills" book, which was previously only available on CD due to the file sizes has been made available for instant download. Now the genre has expanded further with "Guide Flies", with the same format of graphics, text and video clip links. I am still passionate about the outdoors, fly fishing and writing. I hope that you will enjoy the books and find them useful. I further hope that as I learn more there will be more titles with ever better content. Regards Tim

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      An AFTMA fairy tale. - Tim Rolston

      An AFTMA Fairy Tale

      and other short stories

      By Tim Rolston

      Copyright 2012 Tim Rolston

      Smashwords Edition

      License Note: This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of the author.

      A collection of stories and observations taken and updated from The Fishing Gene Blog and edited into eBook Format for easy reading..

      The Fishing Gene: Is it in your DNA?

      An AFTMA Fairy-tale: A (mostly) Fictional Tale.

      What about the Hook? Are the fish put off by the hook and what’s to be done about it?

      No Hackles: Options for those without the necessary Cock Hackles for Dry Flies.

      Bog Standard Parachutes: Quick and effective dries

      Journey to the Centre of the Universe: A wonderful visit to remote Rhodes.

      Two Kinds of Rock: Guiding a bone fide Rock Star.

      Soft Hands: Some on stream experimentation results in even better presentation.

      An Interesting Puzzle: First find the fish.

      Fly Rod Guarantees: All good or is there a downside?

      Brain Power: Why we get skunked by a creature with a brain the size of a pea.

      Giving it the Finger: Opinions are like arseholes, everybody’s got one.

      Other books by the Author.

      About the Author:

      Many years back I was sitting at a party, a fairly standard affair as such things go, some food on a table just outside the kitchen which was filled with various bottles of alcoholic beverage. The weather was warm and the dance floor filled to capacity with lovely ladies in various stages of limited undress. They were all gyrating wildly to the sounds from a rather scratchy sound system as I recall, their attire determined by the warm evening and the desire, one supposes, of attracting attention. As said, a fairly standard affair.

      A fishing buddy of mine, Werner Liebrandt, sat down next to me for a break; Werner was recently married, so the occupants of the dance floor offered limited appeal to him, whilst I was on the other hand single and should have been paying more attention. Still I had been thinking about a recent fly fishing trip to test the salt waters in a nearby estuary, a new thing to us at the time, and said to Werner You know I think I have come up with a better design for our stripping baskets. His response was to pointedly glance around the room at all the skimpily clad and sensuously bouncing ladies, look back at me, and utter these immortal words Don't you ever think about anything else?

      Well I suppose he had a point, because frankly no I don't, fishing is for some reason in my blood, fly fishing in particular although I would drown a worm in a muddy rain puddle were that all that was on offer.

      I am not sure if it a blessing or a curse and there is no logic to it. I don't intend to eat the fish and there is no evidence of any piscatorial bent amongst the rest of my immediate family, the desire to fish is simply there, it always has been, which leads me to conclude that there has to be a fishing gene. There has to be something hard wired into our DNA that makes us fishermen. I am not alone; I have a friend whose father proclaims that he hardly spoke in early childhood. But were they out in the car driving over a river or past a farm dam, the quiet and newly vocal infant would perk up in his car seat, glance out of the window and ask Dad, are there any fish in there, before going back to a period of apparently bored dribbling. I think that he said the word Fish before he managed Ma Ma. It is obvious to me, no matter how diligent the scientists who recently mapped out the human genome, they missed something. Somewhere in there, hidden in the depths of the base pairs of deoxyribonucleic acid is a sequence that determines our fate. The fate of being, beyond all logic, addicted to fishing and all things related to it, to deny it is to deny one's existence, I can't help it, I was born to fish. I do sometimes wish that I had been born to be a merchant banker but apparently these things are beyond choice. You are what you are and the fishing gene has busily replicated in every cell of my body to the point of no return. It is why my blog is called The Fishing Gene and it is why I have filled this book with thoughts of fishing. If you are similarly afflicted then I trust that you might find it entertaining, if you aren't you might feel moved to send me the number

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