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John Rivett

John Rivett

Sep 8, 2026

16:47
everywhere.
16:47
Yeah.
16:48
So I'm in school.
16:50
My dad had bought me a fly tying kit.
16:51
I was tying flies when I was 12 years old, getting pretty good at it.
16:54
And my shop teacher... that's the only reason i kept in school that long was because of a shop teacher that yeah you're learning everything we had well the previous school we had 50 different shop teachers every school of like 5 000 kids and every shop that you can learn you're learning it there everything i know now like everything body work welding all the different trades was learned at that school that's amazing yeah it's too bad yeah it was it was in a mining town it was a big nickel mine in that town so trades were big so yeah so we moved to alberta the shop teacher there great guy ray dirks i wish i could i wish he was i don't know if he's still alive he'd be old i guess by now or gone so anyways he's a fly fisherman and he finds out i can tie flies so you bring a fly to school and say bring this home tonight try to duplicate it try to make one and so i'd tie one perfectly just like it and the next day he'd be like make me a dozen so i'd tie a dozen so that was my first customer

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40:22
It'd be
40:22
tough.
99:42
I
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only shot my first big game animal when I turned 15.
99:43
When I turned 15, I shot my first moose.
99:46
Me too.
99:46
It was awesome.
99:47
That was my first.
99:47
My dad handled it.
100:32
Yeah.

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