By Adam Poulisse, The Greeley Tribune
There are similarities between casting a fly fishing rod in Big Thompson River in Johnstown and casting one deep in the Amazon forest, Jay Johnson said.
“When a fish takes (the bait), there’s nothing else in the world you can think of,” he said. “The pressures of this world are completely washed away as soon as the fish takes. That’s anywhere, any fish.”
But there are, of course, differences — the Amazon has bugs, torrential rain and indigenous people far removed from civilization.
There are also plenty of fish that call the rivers home.
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