Quote Originally Posted by J Castwell
I was defining myself, certainly not you, nor would I ever do so. We, my wife and I, were both 'proud' members of OWA but resigned when the standards were compromised in favor of attracting and accepting members with inferior qualifications and lower ethics. I still treasure the national journalism award my wife received from Columbia though. But me, I am still just a hack.
Yes, I consider y'all models of journalistic excellence and true movers-and-shakers in the fly fishing world. That's why I contribute. I'm glad to know you weren't trying to characterize me as a "pretender." I've always been under the impression that LadyFisher likes my writing. I wish I had something fly-fishing related to say every week that I thought might be interesting to someone else. But I don't. I tend to take a rather zen-ish approach to fishing. So the less thought that goes into it...in general...the better. And that doesn't translate well into a weekly column anyone would want to read.