# Lexington - A river runs through it | United States | The Economist

<https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/04/11/a-river-runs-through-it>

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## What Jamie wrote

Fly fishing and social distancing.

> They kept 12 feet apart, mind, while chatting and scrambling down the riverbank. This seemed not only sensible but representative of what fly-fishing is. It is a solo activity. Yet the technical demands of casting a long line to deliver a feathered hook to the water with, ideally, the delicacy of an insect alighting make its practitioners prone to lively exchanges of information: on rods, water, flies and so forth. An American master angler, Lee Wulff, called fly-fishing “the most social of all the solitary sports”.

Love it. 🎣

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