Don't believe it for a moment. As a former research, I know numbers can be jiggled to produce whatever one wants. I have three different "studies" in my files; one says there are 12 million active fly fishers, another says 20 million, and last but not least, shows the number at 65 million.

I can tell you that the number of people coming to FAOL increases about 20% each year, and about half of those people say they are 'new' to fly fishing.

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LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL