Hoover: The Fishing President
As a boy, “Bert”, as Hoover was called, was fishing the Santiam near Salem, Oregon with worms, when an older fisherman gave the boy three artificial wet flies–a coachman, a grey hackle, and a professor–and encouraged the boy to abandon bait fishing.
The worm, the butcher-string line, and the willow-stick pole were now put aside for a bamboo pole with the fly tied directly to the end of the line. Hoover, arguing for simplicity and efficiency, claimed that the action and the “potency” of the bamboo pole and fly exceeded that of all other methods.
Taken from Hoover the fishing president, by Hal Elliot Wert
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