Joe Brooks was one of our best.......

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

https://www.facebook.com/JoeBrooksFlyFishing


http://joebrooksdocumentary.com/index.html

[SeanO]

Looks like he was a crafty dude!

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[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Great anglers like Joe Brooks, AJ McClane, Zane Grey, Ted Trueblood, Ernest Hemingway, and others wrote wonderful fishing stories that inspired many young men like myself to keep chasing the dream. Later, Lefty Kreh, Mark Sosin, Lee Wulff, Ernie Schwiebert, and others kept the spirit alive.

Without outdoor writers, and outdoor photographers, fishing guides and fishing instructors, our little sport of fly fishing would not be what it is today.

[johnsquires]

I love all those writers. I read Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River over and over. There's something so simple and pure about that story, but also something sad in the fact that most folks these days will never have that kind of experience. Thank goodness for National and State Parks because we seem to be obsessed with covering every other place up with cement and cabins.
I also like the approach so many of those writers take to the sport. My opinion is we often overthink things when fly fishing and we often forget to look around.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I liked some of Zane Grey's writing about fishing as a kid back east in a small river for SMB.

The book "The Undiscovered Zane Grey Fishing Stories" has a story, "The Fisherman" that I loved.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

In the 1960s Lefty Kreh wrote an article in a fishing magazine about "Light Tackle for Bonefish".

He described the spinning tackle they used in great detail.

He liked to use the Shakespeare 2052 and 2062 spinning reels because they had a roller on the bail and had an oiled leather and stainless steel disc drag that was very smooth.

I went out and bought both of those reels....the smaller one, the 2052, was my favorite spinning reel.

I used the 'Gray' Trilene spinning line in 6# test on it with a spinning rod I made out of a 7' one piece fiberglass Fewick fly rod bank.

Back then I made lots of light, flexible spinning rods with fiberglass Lamiglass and Fenwick blanks. Seemed like I made them for lots of friends too.

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