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Fly fishing in Iraq!

2 October, 2005 by Alistair

You have got to hand it to this guy. Whilst working and fighting in Iraq fly fishing would not be in the forefront of most peoples minds, but hey… he packed a fly rod and it just so happened Saddam Hussein’s former palaces have lakes packed with fish so what are you going to do?

carp

Yup, you would get your rod out and catch some Baghdad Carp!

Quality!!

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  1. Romeo Rancourt says:
    18 October, 2005 at 10:36 am

    I really enjoyed looking in your website and looking at the photos provided in your collection. Fly fishing is a excellent sport and what better thing to do then getting a little time away from it all! Great stuff and my hat of to all the soldiars on duty in Irak.

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