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    How Much Would You Pay

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    It was $67 and change...I was agast! The owner saw my shock and made me a deal (Thanks!) but I gotta say I'm not in any rush to pick up any more 'shop' flys...Icky will prob be seeing some of my hard earned $ first.

     

    P.S - $3 flies get hung up in trees just the same as the .99 ones.

    Spring Fishing

    in Photo Posts

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    Thanks for posting Bandee.

     

    Personally I'm getting pretty fed up with the un-offical board police here. Seems often when a new poster comes on the board some loud mouth with an attitude slams the door on them.

     

    :boomboom:

    American Fox News Insults Canadian Military

    in General Chat - Not Fishing Related (NFR)

    Posted

    And if my Prime Minister was Stephen Harper, don't know that I'd go casting stones......

     

     

    What? Do you really think that?

     

    Lets see....Stephen almost toppled his own government in an i'll advised move and pissed off his own country....George has the Katrina disaster, suspended habeas corpus, started two wars, has a million deaths or more on his watch and presided over the biggest economic redistribution of wealth ever....there is more (lots) but I think you get my point.

     

    I've got to say that of all the Americans I've met the best of them were in uniform.

     

     

    +1 for Jack

    Yo! Hardy Fans

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

    Posted

    Hardy, IMO, has become such over-priced also-ran products...I just about choked on my lunch when I saw that the new perfect is $800 and change...seriously? for a machined click/pawl reel? I'll keep buying originals and not lose money on depreciation.

     

    the Cascepadias are over ported and about as ugly as you can get, I mean are we trying for a Vom Hofe / Bogdan look or a Tibor? The brass faced perfects need a buffing wheel carried around with you and the high tech reels over the top trash...Titanium?

     

    Clearly the company is run by guys with too much money trying to one-up...no wonder its a revolving door of distribution...

     

    I'm so disappointed...and I have a considerable collection of pre-60's reels, (plus a couple later Bougles)....Including a original Cascepedia 4/0...What I have seen in the last few years just doesn't hold up...like much of what had been introduced in the last two decades thats not $1200 plus...and even they are suspect.

     

    *Pythagoras rises to the fly...*

     

    I don't think you would find too many people who would argue Hardy is leading edge but calling them 'also ran' is like calling Porshe an "also ran' car company. If one word could be used to describe them I would choose venerable.

     

    In my experience they are a little expensive and the looks are sometimes unique (and appealing in my eye). They also have a cashe, history and, in my case and I suspect many a salmon fishermans, a memory of sound and sliver that is priceless.

     

    :lava:

     

     

     

     

    Yo! Hardy Fans

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

    Posted

    Actually lost more than just the Perfect but a Hardy bag with a St. George and my Hardy Bamboo 5 wt. But still have a few Bamboos and Hardy's.

     

    Nice Angel, That's a keeper for life and to pass on. You'll love it.

     

     

    Sweet Jeebus....thats gotta be a heart breaker. Gotta say of all the things I own losing my FF stuff to thieves is my biggest fear....

     

    My dad bought me a Marquis for salmon fishing somewhere in the mid/late seventies and I bought myself a St. John somewhere in the mid/late eighties (or was it vise/versa).

     

     

    I can't wait to match it up with a little 3wt...was looking at the Greys....

    If You Could Win Your "ultimate Fly Rod"

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    I'd like a rod somewhere near 4km long.

     

    With precise precision.

     

    It has to be able to fold up into my hand and weigh less that 3oz.

     

    Something at home drifting $4.00 worth of feathers and silk delicately across a spot of water as well as hucking $6.00 worth of deer hair, hackle and lead onto the far bank.

     

    I want a rod with character...like Joe Pecicci in Good Fellas.

     

    I want a rod that is able to, at my command, either become a walkie talkie or a police baton.

     

    I want a rod that buzzes like a light saber.

     

    I want a rod with 640 gigs of memory.

     

    I want a rod with free nights and weekends.

     

    I want a rod that loves me for me.

     

    I want a rod that has a stealth mode.

     

    I want a rod with build in GPS and cupholders.

     

    I want the rod Batman would use if Batman needed to flyfish.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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