For young Pennsylvania fly-tying phenom, it’s fish, fish, fish

Karrie and Doug Sampsel had little idea that the $40 fly-tying kit they gave their son, Landis, for Christmas when he was 10 would ignite a passion.
“He’s always been a fisherman, and so when we saw the kit we thought, ‘let’s see if we can get him into fly-tying,’” recalled Karrie, of Pleasant Gap, Centre County, Pa. “We gave him the kit and his interest took off.”
Now 14, Landis is making a name for himself in local fly-angling circles with his subsurface and dry flies.

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