The Top Ten Signs the Recession is Hitting Fly Fishing

chart 10. Due to cuts in personal appearance fees, Lefty Kreh casts 20% shorter during trade show exhibitions

9. Simms meets entry-level wader price point by introducing new breathable "wader shorts"

8. Top fly fishing magazine sells soul to advertisers and exotic destination lodges at 60% of last year’s price

7. High price of gas means fly fishermen are fishing same water, but driving less and making much, much longer casts

6. Buster Wants to Fish gang seen drinking tap water instead of ~~cheap swill~~ PBR

5. The Orvis Guy photographed fishing in last year’s tweed jacket

4. Guides attempt to convince clients that Ritz crackers and government surplus cheese are "euro gourmet" lunch

3. Fly fishers suddenly convinced they can "cast to the backing," but turns out SciAnglers saving money by making fly lines 40′ long

2. Redding Fly Shop testing Vespa Scooters to see if they can pull a drift boat

1. Donnie Beaver has only enough cash to illegally post half as much water as year before

The signs are inescapable, Undergrounders. See any of your own?

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