In shocking news which offers fly fishers some small hope of a normal life, scientists have reported that the right kind of brain injury can actually break a smoking addiction.

My brothers, we are freed.

Because the Underground has to ask: could this stunning new technique be applied to fly fishing addictions?

From the New York Times (no less):

Scientists studying stroke patients are reporting today that an injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit. People with the injury who stopped smoking found that their bodies, as one man put it, “forgot the urge to smoke.”

Think of the potential:

  • Families of fly fishers could be made whole
  • Compulsive buying of largely indistinguishable graphite fly rods would cease
  • $700 zippered waders would suddenly seem laughable
  • And no longer would we buy magazines running last year’s stories

All due to a simple blow to the head.

Most alluring is the availability of a self-cure; heavy nymph rigs regularly deliver concussions to slow-witted nymph fishers, so a lucky, addiction-breaking blow is possible at almost any time.

Public Service Ads would advise anglers to “Chuck and Duck…for Life.”

Obviously, dry fly fishers lack the potential for a quick smack on the head, so they’d be issued greased rubber wading boots and told to wade across the Pit River (that should do it).

If you’re like me, you’re all atingle right now. A cure for our dread disease might be as close as your container of split shot…

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