I’m not so sure it wasn’t a rogue band of dry fly purists that assaulted the local bait shop, making off with a 100,000 maggots. Given the meager supply of dry fly hackles were nearly exhausted due to rampant hoarding of trendy hair stylists, and with the season just underway, it was likely a spur of the moment act of desperate men.
It could have been PETA, but maggots are neither adorable or expensive, ensuring there’s little interest in a bill board campaign or simple martyrdom – as plenty can be scavenged from the periphery of the local roadbed.
The clue is all eight of the bandits beat off the proprietor and throng of angry fishermen with golf clubs … which is damned suspicious in anyone’s book …
Eighteen holes is obviously lacking that sweaty primal-thing, where you can squeeze the life out of something smaller than you …
I agree…it must have been dry fly fishermen. Or at the very least fly fishermen. With our propensity for gathering vast quantities of tying materials that will likely never be fully utilized, there no reason we would not exhibit the same behavior when it comes to bait.
Hmmmmm…Lord of The Flies,indeed. But I WAGed the price of the crawlers at 40 cents apiece????? Who was ripping off whom here?
Those zany crazy Brits!!! Be on the lookout for 8 guys peddling bait from the trunk of their car!!!