Remembering Jimmy Carter, our greatest fly-fishing president
Many presidents have fished, but few had the soul of an angler.
On president Jimmy Carter's passing, many have noted his role as our greatest humanitarian president. I'd argue Jimmy Carter was also our greatest fly-fishing president, of the many who have cast a line.
I’m certain he won’t ever be surpassed as the Fishiest President, unless Donald Junior hits the Oval while there are still trout chasing streamers.
As Mark Kurlansky writes in essential fly-fishing reading The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing, most presidential anglers picked up the sport to politick, but Carter was a true-blue outdoorsman from his boyhood.
When he became governor of Georgia, he stared fly-fishing in the Chattahoochee and became committed, including through his presidency.
