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June 24th, 2002
The Twelve Steps of Fly Fishers Anonymous
By Cary Morlan
Publisher’s Note: Cary sent this in response to
the Castwell article FFA, if you missed it, click
HERE.
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We admitted that we were powerless over our
addiction, that our lines had become unmanageable. -
We came to believe that fishing only local
waters could restore us to sanity. -
We made a decision to turn the choice of our
fishing days over to our significant other. -
We made a searching and fearless inventory of our
vest and pared it down to only one wet box and one dry box. -
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
being the exact nature of the fabricated stories we are compelled
to share with others. -
We were entirely ready to have God remove these self
aggrandizing fables from our memory. -
We humbly asked him to remove other anglers from our
favored waters that the fish may still be there for us when
we choose to relapse. -
We made a list of all fish we had killed and became
willing to do volunteer work for our local TU chapter’s
stream restoration project. -
We made direct amends to Landowners whose property
rights we had violated wherever possible, except when to
do so would injure us. -
We continued to take our personal inventory and when we
were wrong about what hatch was coming off we promptly admitted it. -
We sought through prayer and meditation to improve
our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying
only for knowledge of Bamboo rod making and the power to buy
materials in small quantities. -
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these
steps, we tried to carry this message to fly fishers, and to
practice our double haul in secluded areas so as not to look
like a show off. ~ Cary Morlan (Linemender).
Originally published June 24th, 2002 on Fly Anglers Online by Cary Morlan.