When thinking about fly fishing, I imagine standing waist deep in a blue ribbon trout stream with an awe inspiring background of boreal forest below soaring bald eagles while perfectly executing a double haul to a riser 70 feet away. When thinking about beer, I imagine a cold golden brown liquid with a frothy head that has the sharp taste of hops and the smooth aftertaste of deliciousness. Fortuitously beer and fly fishing seems to go together like poo and stink. Even when you can’t count on the fish, a beer will never disappoint.
Although it may be theoretically possible to fly fish without beer, why risk a cosmic cataclysm? And not just any old beer will do. There is always the chance that today will be that, “epic day”, we all hope for. You wouldn’t want to celebrate it with a semi-warm macrobrew would you? What you need for a proper celebratory toast is a handcrafted micro-brew, or at the very least, a fine IPA.
On the other hand, after making the perfect cast, setting up the perfect drift and setting to the strike just so, almost any brew would taste pretty darn good. It is not too great a leap to hypothesize that indeed, fly fishing makes beer taste better.
Perhaps it is the quality of the beer that binds the memories of good friends together over special events, or maybe it is just the quantity of the beer. Some of my fondest memories involve a side note of particularly cold or uniquely tasty beer. Beer like fly fishing, brings good people a reason to spend time together.
I particularly like an A.K. Best quote that goes, “We said we were going to go fishing, and we did.” Maybe a more personal response to the question, “How was the fishing?’”, would be, “We went for good fishing and beautiful surroundings but only found cold beer.” There can not possibly be a more fitting end to a fine day afield than a cold microbrew.
Although it may be theoretically possible to fly fish without beer, why risk a cosmic cataclysm? And not just any old beer will do. There is always the chance that today will be that, “epic day”, we all hope for. You wouldn’t want to celebrate it with a semi-warm macrobrew would you? What you need for a proper celebratory toast is a handcrafted micro-brew, or at the very least, a fine IPA.
On the other hand, after making the perfect cast, setting up the perfect drift and setting to the strike just so, almost any brew would taste pretty darn good. It is not too great a leap to hypothesize that indeed, fly fishing makes beer taste better.
Perhaps it is the quality of the beer that binds the memories of good friends together over special events, or maybe it is just the quantity of the beer. Some of my fondest memories involve a side note of particularly cold or uniquely tasty beer. Beer like fly fishing, brings good people a reason to spend time together.
I particularly like an A.K. Best quote that goes, “We said we were going to go fishing, and we did.” Maybe a more personal response to the question, “How was the fishing?’”, would be, “We went for good fishing and beautiful surroundings but only found cold beer.” There can not possibly be a more fitting end to a fine day afield than a cold microbrew.
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I would like John to read this... For, once upon a time myself and several other minions and minion type people traveled 3/4 of the way across America to meet John AT HIS HOME and fish. John's only task, though an important one was beer. Did John make a wise choice? NO he chose Ice House with no ice. Don't let this happen to you. DON'T LET JOHN CHOSE!
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