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many more are slightly skewed and are now viewed from a different angle. I still live in Fairfax, but now I own my home, or at least part of it. I still look towards the weekends with a fever boiling to get out and escape. I still enjoy a lot of the same activities, although it' appears that in order to do the same activities I enjoyed as a child, I need much more expensive equipment.

I don’t recall having much trouble catching trout as a child. I used a Zebco and probably some worms and rarely got skunked. Maybe the fish have gotten smarter; maybe, like so many other things precious to us these days, they are scarcer or maybe I was suffering from a childhoodlong bout of beginner’s luck. In any case, Rappahannock would not be nearly far enough away to escape the wrath of my wife if she knew the amount of money that had been spent on fly rods in our house.

There is still something that draws me back every chance I get. As soon as I reach Crest Hill Road off 1-66,

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