Paul Arden | Tuesday, 15 October 2024
I have no idea what to write about today! I know that’s very unusual for me. Normally I can find something to write about. The way it works when I have nothing new is that I pick any subject that first comes to mind and find a way of linking it back to fly fishing. I’m very well practised at this. I suspect we all are.
For example, imagine you are in a conversation with someone, how many moves are you away from turning the conversation from football, dressmaking, or car maintenance into fly fishing? Going straight from the topic to fly fishing js always a bit rude. For example, you can’t say “I take my car to go fly fishing, do you know I was fishing last Thursday… blah blah”. That would be rude.
Instead you need to be more subtle. “Oh you have a car? That’s nice. Do you ever sleep in or under it?” Not an immediate jump to fly fishing for the uninitiated. But for a fly fisher we can already see the way this is going, because sleeping in or under cars is part of what we do. “No? I used to love living in a car, parked next to rivers in New Zealand…”. Then some story about a car that got stuck somewhere and we are already putting out wet socks on.
So what about football or dressmaking you ask? Dressmaking is easy. “You make dresses? Oh that’s wonderful. Are they ever waterproof?” Football on the other hand I would just walk away. But if you really must have the conversation tell him you once found a football in the river. Or if you want a longer route; football, rugby, All Blacks, and then we are safely onto fly fishing.
Ah yes the Sexyloops Time Machine where you can see this in action:
https://www.sexyloops.com/index.php/daily-cast-archive/
And
https://www.sexyloops.com/eric/wayback/fparchive2.shtml
There are some great examples there!
Cheers, Paul