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If you would like your picture up on the board just send it to me in email Bruce Fisher

Fish and people on Penns Creek

9/2/2006

I want to celebrate the life of John Hayes. He was a person that you would have liked from the moment you met him. He had a way about him, he was a gentlemen angler. He loved bamboo rods and trout fishing. He loved to talk about trout or rods and reels. We both had a love affair with the same small limestone creek although it wasn't until a year ago that I came to know John. From the moment we met we liked each other. John was clearly from the old school of fly fishermen and I was from the new age of anglers. But we stood together trading secrets and talking of trout, rods, reels and lines. We compared flies and talked about the places we had wet a line. John was nearing the end of his life when we fished together in early May. I didn't know it at the time but it was a life changing event that happened that day and it almost slipped by until today. It happened on a lovely piece of water that I'd fished many times before. In reflection it was the very stream and spot that I'd cut my fly-fishing teeth. John fished a dry fly with a lot of drag, skitters and stops and he said "to imitate life you needed to have movement".

John, you will be missed.

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