........and told me he was going the 'Sac State' and wanted to catch a Striper on a fly in the American river.

He wanted to buy a fly fishing outfit but did not have much money.

We had the Cortland 'Crown' complete starter kits for about $55 so I sold him the 8'6" #6/7 in 2 piece.

Then I put on a 7'6" 0X leader and tied on a #2 Lefty's Deceiver, Green over White. No Clousers back then.

He already had some fly casting skill but we did go out side with one of our parking-lot outfitters and cast some.


I told him to go to the Watt Avenue Bridge access and below it, wade out to this island and fish off the back of it, AM or PM.


The next weekend he came back in with the outfit and told me had landed 7 stripers.

He told me that he had gone out every evening that week.

He said the last one was bigger? and took out most of his backing before it broke off.


He asked me if he could buy anther fly and would I tie it on for him?





PS: I probably have thousands of stories like that I could talk or write about.

If you spent 50 years selling fly fishing equipment then you would have thousands of stories too.