| Avid angler makes bamboo fishing rods | |
| By Ryan Hanrahan |
Source: gillettenewsrecord |
12/19/2021 |
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Credit: Jessi Dodge, Buffalo Bulletin |
Zac Sexton is addicted to fly-fishing.
“I am literally addicted to it,” he said. “My wife is an addictions counselor, and she says I'm addicted to it. I don't do things I'm supposed to do so that I can go fishing, blow off responsibilities so I can go fishing, that's what I do."
And Sexton's day job at the county jail — or, in his case, overnight job — aids his addiction, because it leaves his afternoons wide open for standing in the flowing waters of Clear Creek to fish. |
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He'll even stay out so long some afternoons — until the final rays of sunlight are almost fully behind the Bighorns - that he's told his wife, Sarah, not to come looking for him until morning.
Sexton's passion for fly-fishing was sparked early in his life, he said, when he learned how to tie flies at just age 13.
By age 15 — before he even had his drivers license — he was working at a Buffalo store called Just Gone Fishing.
And by age 17, Sexton purchased his first bamboo fly-fishing rod — his now-preferred material — from an antique store in Buffalo. |
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