(Book cover by Pete MacKenzie, copyright Coch-y-Bonddu Books)
What the title means
Fly Fishing Outside the Box
"Fly Fishing Outside the Box, Emerging Heresies": Peter Hayes. A book to make you think, usefully, about fish and fly
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As fly fishers we've got boxed in
A note on thinking outside the box and the ‘nine dot’ puzzle:
This puzzle has been used as a (not entirely reliable) gauge of lateral and creative thinking.
The answers don't lie within the nine dots we've been given
The goal is to join all 9 dots of the ‘box’ with four straight pencil lines or fewer, and you may not lift the pencil off the page or trace the same line more than once.
We need to think, and fish, from outside the box to progress
Here’s the solution – to succeed you have to go outside the lines of dots, in other words, think ‘outside the box’ .We graduates of 1980s corporate training sessions may hate the phrase, but it has real meaning for our rather coagulated sport.
© Peter Hayes 2014