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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.zestbit.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>darkshark</title><link>http://www.zestbit.com/blogs/darkshark/default.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)</generator><item><title>Flyfishing Zest</title><link>http://www.zestbit.com/blogs/darkshark/view/2007.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:50:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1de9d097-deeb-4254-ae37-0e8bc7f22713:397</guid><dc:creator>darkshark</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.zestbit.com/blogs/darkshark/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=397</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.zestbit.com/blogs/darkshark/view/2007.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;a name="top"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h1 id="Title"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.zestbit.com/photos/darkshark/images/398/secondarythumb.aspx" align="left" hspace="5" alt="trout.jpg" /&gt;Flyfishing Zest&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flyfishing in the Rockies!&amp;nbsp; It just doesn&amp;#39;t get much better than this.&amp;nbsp; The scenery, the fresh air, mountain, etc.&amp;nbsp; Just moved to Colorado a year ago and have always heard about how awesome the fishing is in the mountains.&amp;nbsp; After being a bass fisher from the South my whole life I thought flyfishing would be for the&amp;nbsp;birds;&amp;nbsp;inferior to anything I&amp;#39;d ever experienced on the lakes of Alabama.&amp;nbsp; Boy was I wrong!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I picked up a video lesson on how to cast a fly, proper technique, blah, blah, blah...Finally, I just decided to go buy some gear at Bass Pro and head for the&amp;nbsp;mountains to see what all the fuss was about.&amp;nbsp; Many tangled lines later and about to blow my fuse, I decided to make one last cast out along side of this large boulder in the stream and......PAY DIRT.&amp;nbsp; I got a bite and understood, all of a sudden, why flyfishermen brag on their sport so much.&amp;nbsp; I reeled in the fish and found how much of a fight those little fish put up.&amp;nbsp; Great sport.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a name="32afb580-5e82-495e-b65d-efbf08c93c01"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="Entry"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Rockin and a reelin&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thrill of the catch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table class="Videos" cellspacing="10" border="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" width="145" style="width:145px;height:123px;word-wrap:break-word;overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object name="Videom0jTY80e7RQ" width="125" height="103"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m0jTY80e7RQ"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m0jTY80e7RQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="125" height="103"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p align="center" style="width:145px;word-wrap:break-word;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="PoweredByImageDiv"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.YouTube.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ZestBit.com/Themes/ThePub/Images/icon-YouTube.gif" alt="YouTube.com" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="PoweredByDiv"&gt;Powered By:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name="02da7048-f95d-463c-af21-09042663b6ca"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="Entry"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Flyfishing&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was a skeptic, but am now understand the fun in this sport.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name="5871b914-57bf-475a-90d5-5638e73d9e2f"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="Entry"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Tools&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;table class="Coupons" border="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Flyfishing (Video)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Flyfishing-Sports-Afield/dp/6303077757%3FSubscriptionId%3D0THD2YS9R58M4WEAPSR2%26tag%3Dshopathomes0f-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D6303077757" target="newwindow"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q7CX2THKL._SL75_.jpg" alt="Flyfishing (Video)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Flyfishing-Sports-Afield/dp/6303077757%3FSubscriptionId%3D0THD2YS9R58M4WEAPSR2%26tag%3Dshopathomes0f-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D6303077757" target="newwindow"&gt;Flyfishing (Video)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Flyfishing-Sports-Afield/dp/6303077757%3FSubscriptionId%3D0THD2YS9R58M4WEAPSR2%26tag%3Dshopathomes0f-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D6303077757" target="newwindow"&gt;See the reviews&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bold"&gt;List Price: &lt;/span&gt;$19.99&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bold"&gt;Lowest Used Price: &lt;/span&gt;$2.10 (as of 1/5/2009@6:20 PM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="bold"&gt;Lowest New Price: &lt;/span&gt;$6.55 (as of 1/5/2009@6:20 PM)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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