Fly Fishing Safety And Courtesy

[FlyFishinFool]

Just a follow-up to this thread that I started a while back - I was fishing down at BSSP this week (love the parks on weekdays after school gets started, almost no one there at all!). While fishing a young lady walked down the stream behind me to a shady spot, set up a folding chair and proceeded to sit down and crack out a book - about 10 feet from where my backcast was passing an easy 5 feet behind where her chair was placed. I turned around and very politely advised that she might want to relocate her chair, because fly fishing requires a significant amount of room for backcasting; unless she wanted to risk acquiring some new pierced ears with feather flies to match the feather extension in her hair. She immediately closed her book, picked up her chair, said "Thanks for the warning" and relocated more than 100 yards upstream to a different shady spot. I guess the lesson here is: 1) polite, 2) truthful, and 3) painfully accurate description (or is that an accurate painful description?), anyway it seemed to get her attention.