Ok, here goes...I've been a little confused by some of these posts but I think I've got it figured out. Allow me to summarize and clarify:

Some of you think we're talking about using fish to catch flies. Dead fish are best, but that's not fly fishing, it's fish flying.

Please do not confuse this with what you can do to the dead fish--that's fish frying.

Then there are those of you who are talking about imitation flies, the creation of which is know as fly tying.

This activity is not to be confused with those who go to casinos with lots of money--that's high flying.

There has been some mention of catching bats--this is different sport altogether, and it's not *cricket*, if you catch my meaning, to lump it in with fly fishing. It can be associated with baseball, but that might be stretching it, since those guys are paid big bucks to catch balls, not bats, and we don't want to talk about that on a family website.

Then there are those of you who are obviously ice fishing. You are seriously misleading people. Fish do not eat ice, and if those poor southerners manage to get a cube on their hooks it's just gonna melt in the bayou.

Some of you have mentioned worms. I've passed your names on to PETA.

And to that poor benighted soul out there in the ravine--the herons are just coming by to see what kind of fish you might catch. They've never seen anybody catch fish with something that looks like that. If you hook a whopper, they're gonna spear it for you.

Removing tongue from cheek,

V