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M C I I C \ J r \ ( . | 2 I T \ I \ I )K \ I . I IMI IU IK 11> \ ̂ - M \ \ 17. im* c Nation/World Business is booming in schools for fly fishing By Ken Franckling UPI feature writer MANCHKSTKR. Yt. - Fly fishing, a sport with an elitist reputation, is not as complicated or highbrow as myriad angling books would have you believe. Neophytes who have devoured all the literature at hand may disagree, but it is true And help is close at hand Business is booming at schools designed to make angling with counterteit fur and-feather flies as painless as possible. From the banks of the storied Battenkill River in Vermont and the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York to' the Rockies, the Pacific Northwest and salt water Drug squad tries to get to the source LOS ANGKLKS Around town it is called the "entertainment squad." the special narcotics team that nabbed actor Dan Hag- gerty for selling cocaine. The group has been described by Haggerty's defense attorney as one that is "desperate" to snare celebrities to justify its existence. But leaders of the six-member squad shrug off the allegation, saying they are just after the dealers who sell to stars, not the celebrities themselves. "We go by the level of dope the dealer is dealing -- not name recognition," said entertainment squad leader Lt. Richard Szabo. f Haggerty was not a big dealer -- he sold less than three-quarters of an ounce of cocaine to the officers in two sales last year. So why did two of the squad's undercover officers spend five months befriending Haggerty, a not-so-famous actor who co- starred with a bear named Ben in the TV series. "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams?" The officers repeat what has become a routine answer. The squad launched an under­ cover investigation of Haggerty last year on a tip the actor was a dealer and could lead the officers to large-scale suppliers. Bt Szabo and ('apt. Carley Mitchell, another leader of the Narcotips Division, say the surveillance was not successful and the officers never made contact with a big dealer. "Our whole mission is to go to the source," Mitchell said. "We spend literally thousands of man hours trying to get to the source." When that fails, as it did with Haggerty. police can't let the smaller dealers go free, Mitchell said. "What do you do if some guy sells you a gram?" Mitchell ask­ ed. "You can't forget about it. You have to put it in the (legal) system." A Superior Court jury found Haggerty guilty on one count of selling cocaine, but acquitted him on the second count by reason of entrapment, giving the squad a partial victory. fishing meccas in Florida's Key West, schools that teach fly fishing have grown faster than algae in a farm pond Most offer the basics in two- or three-day sessions that include both classroom instruction and on- the-stream coaching Not all of the students are rookies Some veterans even find it a good ex­ cuse to combine vacation with some brush-up work on casting techniques. The trend began in Manchester, not far from the banks of the Bat­ tenkill, in 1967 when the first school was opened by Orvis Co.. a f l y r o d m a n u f a c t u r e r a n d purveyor of quality sporting gear*. Since that first experimental school. Orvis has given more than 14.000 "students" the fundamen­ tals of fly casting and fishing in three-day doses. The casting is the key to the spoilt. in which the weight of the fishing line carries a tiny imita­ tion insect to a particular spot on the water where the angler believes the fish are. and hopes they are hungry. Tony Skilton. born and raised near the limestone creeks of cen­ tral Pennsylvania, runs the Orvis program. "Fly fishing is not a tvpe of fishing that you can learn in 10 minutes or can just have anybody teach you." Skilton said. • At a school, you can get rid of your mistakes in three days and be done with it." In addition to basic casting, the school also focuses on knot tying, the fish and their reactions to available food.>and other pointers on locating trout, selecting flies \and understanding how the tish LENNOX* CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING •QUIET • EFFICIENT • DEPENDABLE ' •DURABLE - REASONABLY PRICED 3511S. WRIGHT RD. HtAIINGw^ ° J001"*5. 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