Hi, this is David Steinem money for the rest of us and there's no regular episode of

the podcast this week because I'm out fly fishing.

I promised myself when I left the investment business and called myself retired about

a decade ago, I would learn to fly fish.

Not because I have a great love for fishing, more out of curiosity.

For years as I traveled around the country, clients would razz me about living a short

drive from several world-renowned fly fishing rivers and I had never fly fished.

The closest I had come is my son and I took a casting class.

Ten years ago this month, I fly fished for the first time.

A couple of friends and I camped at Elastone National Park and fished the Firehole River.

I caught two fish, which took my lifetime total catch to five fish, but my pride in that

catch dissipated after reading the following sentence from Renee Harb's book, Learning

on the Water.

He wrote, incidental catches of immature fish might be acceptable in the beginning, but

eventually that must inevitably change.

In less than 20 words, my achievement had been downsized in my mind to an incidental

catch of an immature fish, beginner's luck.

A few weeks later, I fished the Henry Ford River at Harriman State Park in Idaho.

A skilled fly fisherman I spoke with on that Yellowstone trip, who had retired in Cody

Wyoming.

He was from Connecticut, he retired in Wyoming so he could fish, and he said he had not

yet tried the Henry's fork because he was too intimidated.

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