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Fellow warrior helps organize fly fishing adventure

Sean Adams, center, took fly fishing lessons with world-famous fly fisherman and fly rod maker Bill Oyster on Tuesday in Blue Ridge. On the right is Adams’ girlfriend, Callie Baize. If supporters can raise enough money, Adams and Baize will be going on an Alaskan fishing journey in July. - photo by FRANK REDDY

0525FLYFISHING 0005 — Sean Adams, center, took fly fishing lessons with world-famous fly fisherman and fly rod maker Bill Oyster on Tuesday in Blue Ridge. On the right is Adams’ girlfriend, Callie Baize. If supporters can raise enough money, Adams and Baize will be going on an Alaskan fishing journey in July. - photo by FRANK REDDY

On a recent afternoon, the springtime sun warming their shoulders, two men talk at the edge of a pond. Behind them, hulking silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains cut their way into the horizon. The younger man holds a fly fishing rod.