Be that Guy Fly-Fishing in Manhattan Traffic

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In the New York Times Magazine a couple weeks ago, I was delighted by the account of a guy who gets his quarantine ya-ya’s out by fly-casting off a West Village sidewalk:

I plant myself in the middle of West 12th Street and commence fly-casting — essentially fly-fishing without the fish — slinging 30 or 40 feet of thin nylon line behind me and in front of me, over and over again while…