Amelia Earhart Decides Fly Fishing Isn't for Her

Amelia Earhart Decides Fly Fishing Isn't for Her

This story, “Flying and Fly Fishing,” first ran in the December 1934 issue of Outdoor Life. FOR ME, flying and fly-fishing both began in California. The first flight was as a passenger with Frank Hawks, the first fishing as a novice in the Sierras.  Then — also on the West Coast, and also in the dark ages of longer ago than I like to remember — a pilot named John Montijo taught me to fly. My husband, not so long ago, undertook some post-graduate…