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Fly fishing in Manchester, Vermont
Keeping it reel.
From the March 24, 2003 Issue of New York
 My dad, 84, has been fishing almost 75 years, and I
was 6 when he taught me. We’re both spin
casters, but after years of listening to the
fly-fishing blah-blah, we decided to see for ourselves
what all the fuss was about. The Orvis Fly Fishing
School, we discovered, is a great place to find out.
In the Orvis classroom, instructors teach the basics
of knot tying, how to “read” the water,
and Trout Psych 101. Then they reveal the secrets of
the fly-cast—the delicate backward-then-forward
motion that sends a thin loop of line shooting through
the air to deposit a tiny imitation fly gently on the
water’s surface—first in the parking lot,
then on the Battenkill River. After your last class on
Sunday, you can head back to the Battenkill or hike up
to the emerald-green Equinox Pond for “evening
rise,” the time between dusk and dark when fish
like to feed. You’ll almost certainly get a
bite: Mine was mosquito, but Dad’s was trout.
— Julie Mautner
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Details
The Orvis Fly Fishing School (from $430;
800-235-9763; orvis.com) is four and a half hours from
New York; stay at the Equinox Hotel (from $195;
888-FOR-ROCK; equinoxresort.com).
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| Photograph: Corbis |
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