Jim Erskine

Men with Long Rods ?: ? and Other Fly-fishing Tales Jim Erskine

Jim Erskine shares his stories, passions, adventures and feelingsexperienced while being an avid fly-fisherman, husband and father. Although he has been fishing all his life, the day his father-in-lawplaced that first fly rod into his hands, his life seemed too changed. Butthen again, all of life's priorities seem to change as you get older!From "Amorous Adventures on Tim Pond:" "Within the first two or three casts, I had hooked my first brook trout. A seven-inch wonder that was absolutely gorgeous with spots, colorsand feistiness I hadn't ever experienced. How could this tiny fish be sowonderful to catch? How could I get so much pleasure out of trickinga dumb fish in that a piece of deer hair was actually a bug and twitchingthe fly line made it move on the water? Regardless, with pun intended, I was hooked."