The chicken or the egg

Geologists made a remarkable discovery this week in southern Germany when they unearthed findings - which is without doubt reputable evidence that the fly rod was around way before the bow and arrow had been invented. A perfectly preserved fly reel with line and a streamer dating back 70 000 yrs (around the time Neanderthal man was reportedly roaming the earth) was unearthed in a large slice of slate by an ecstatic Klaus von fluff-chucker.
Prof von fluff-chucker said he had long believed that fly-fishing had been around far longer than we had first thought and that this important finding can now lay that argument to rest once and for all.