Ribbons of Blue The Life & Lore of the Old Pro Pat Barnes

Their lives followed similar though different paths. Pat Barnes and Dan Bailey were the "Old Pros". Unlike many of the modern-day fishing crowd,they were more interested in trout than in money. Interested in the people who fly-fished for trout, the streams that housed the trout, and the land through which those streams flowed. The Old Pros loved fly-fishing long before it became trendy -- before it was important to be well-dressed, use the best gear, fish the best rivers through-out the world with the best fishing guides. Pat and Dan were conservationists before most people thought about conservation....