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I have been called many names in my 50-odd years on this planet, some pleasant, others not so much. However, there was one name that still tickles me pink to this day. It came about some years back while fishing with my brother-in-law up at Goedertrouw Dam in Zululand. Early morning and we had just put the boat on the water when a fellow angler sauntered over to me and peered into the boat. He gazed at my multiple bags and said, “You are a real tackle whore, aren’t you?” Well, needless to say, I was delighted with the veiled insult. A tackle whore. Oh yeah!
I know that a good many of you will be smiling that all-knowing smile at thisstage, as you, too, probably fall into this category. For me, it is simply not possible to travel to a fishing destination, even for just a few days, without taking the mandatory 10,348 flies and seven or eight fly rods. I do this knowing full well that 99.8% of them won’t get wet, let alone see the light of day, but I get a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that they are there. Just in case. All neatly positioned in their boxes, facing in one direction, colour coded and sized accordingly. Dragons in this one, damsels in that one. One might use the word “redundancy”, but I’m sure the psych students would have a field day analysing this situation. Invariably I will tie on one of my confidence flies and proceed to ignore all else for the rest ofthe day, the others lying forlornly in the plethora of boxes.
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