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Alabama's Redeye Bass Chris Lynch
Cahaba Redeye
As a kid, I never really did much fishing. It was not a family pastime of ours. My first exposure to fly fishing was at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico when I was 16, and I absolutely loved it. Why I didn't further pursue it in the next 15 years, is anybody's guess. When I moved to Montgomery, Alabama (I'm active duty United States Air Force), a new coworker of mine was a fly fishing nut. I started hanging out with him, and the fire was lit. While reading up on everything I also discovered tenkara... So, against his suggestions, I got a simple tenkara setup (Daiwa Kiyose) along with a 74
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“western� fly fishing outfit (Echo 4weight). Fast forward three years; I'm fishing almost exclusively tenkara, although I still have a (different) 4-weight rod and reel setup for when I feel the itch. Alabama is NOT what you think of when somebody mentions tenkara. It just is not. Most anglers here have no clue what it is, what it means, or why you would use it. Most non-anglers are even more confused by it. In my local fly fishing circles, I'm "the tenkara guy," and the source of a lot of ribbing, but I have managed to convert a few over in the process.
