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por t i ng Li fe S By Tom Davis Pete Fleischman is part of a thriving subculture of contemporary tyers who find endlessly fertile ground for artful innovation in the Atlantic salmon fly. T here is no place farther away from the Atlantic salmon rivers of the world than an unheated garage in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in February. But that's where Pete Fleischman and I were, having climbed down from the attic where we were laying fiberglass insulation. Just so you know, it was my attic, and my garage. Actually, Pete, who's a contractor by trade, was laying the insulation. My job (which pretty much maxed out my skill set) was to slice open the plastic-wrapped bales, separate the S Inspired by surrealist paintings like The Burning Giraffe, the Dali fly incorporates a host of exotic feathers, including Mearns quail and golden pheasant. ladder man, feeding more bales to me as necessary from the stack that Pete's insulation supplier had delivered a couple days earlier. Needing to take a break – meaning that we needed to stand upright for a while and peel off the respirators we were wearing to keep the dust out of our lungs – Pete and I had clambered cottony pink batts, and crawling along sheets of plywood we'd put down over the joists, get them into Pete's hands. The third member of the crew, our mutual friend Erik Forsgren, was the P O R T I N G C 66 L A S S I C S