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Ailm Travler

  • “The truth is, fly fishing is folly: useless, unreasonable, irrational, and without purpose. Fly fishing is folly precisely because it makes survival harder than it already is, and by doing so, turns survival into art.”

    • Ailm Travler,
    • "Fly Fishing Folly," in Holly Morris, ed., Uncommon Waters: Women Write About Fishing ()

Ailm Travler, U.S. scholar, musician, poet

Real name: Peggy V. Beck. She has also written as P. V. Beck, Maggy V. Beck, Peg Beck.