Navy Lieutenant Joel Stewart with a mangar, a carp-like gamefish he caught in one of the ponds surrounding Saddam Hussein's royal palaces in Baghdad.

The Baghdad School of Flyfishing
By: Andrew Snyder

When Navy Lieutenant Joel Stewart was packing for deployment to Iraq, he made sure to include his fly rod. He was hoping that the man-made ponds outside Saddam Hussein's palaces would be full of fish so that in the middle of the war he could pretend to be back home in Montana, casting to trout. He was not disappointed.