Bill Kiene semi-retired
11-18-2005, 10:11 AM
I tell this story in the shop more than twice a year for the educational value:
We have had several seminars at Eagle Lake in the past. We would go for 3 days in November off the full moon where one of our staff would take 6 customers to learn how to fish Eagle Lake from the master, Jay Fair.
This was told to me by a friend who was taking one of the seminars.
He said the first day Jay took them all in two boats to one of his favorite places to wade for big Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout. This is a place with a rocky lava bottom where he would turn over rocks later in the day so they could all see the scuds.
He said that they all lined up in about 12" of water right off the bank in the very early AM. He said that Jay went down the line and cast each person's outfit and then showed how he retieves very, very slow. He actually caught a fish while demonstating with each person's rod.
Then he got down to my old friend Georgie Martin who had been fly fishing for 50 years. Jay did not cast George's outfit and just said, "You already know all this stuff."
George told me he was disapointed because he wanted to see if Jay could catch that last fish and make it 6 in a row.
True story.......
We have had several seminars at Eagle Lake in the past. We would go for 3 days in November off the full moon where one of our staff would take 6 customers to learn how to fish Eagle Lake from the master, Jay Fair.
This was told to me by a friend who was taking one of the seminars.
He said the first day Jay took them all in two boats to one of his favorite places to wade for big Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout. This is a place with a rocky lava bottom where he would turn over rocks later in the day so they could all see the scuds.
He said that they all lined up in about 12" of water right off the bank in the very early AM. He said that Jay went down the line and cast each person's outfit and then showed how he retieves very, very slow. He actually caught a fish while demonstating with each person's rod.
Then he got down to my old friend Georgie Martin who had been fly fishing for 50 years. Jay did not cast George's outfit and just said, "You already know all this stuff."
George told me he was disapointed because he wanted to see if Jay could catch that last fish and make it 6 in a row.
True story.......