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Maybe try telling them that. See if they'll match the price. Say you'd rather give them your money..

I'd say "yeah? well if you only know this ONE spot.. you're going to be starving soon!"

Well... so much for that idea. I feel like crap today. Just woke up.

I'm feeling prett good. Doc said just to "take it easy". So as long as I don't have to go running up shore to keep up with a 30" brownie a bunch of times in a row I should be good! I'll call it quits if I get tired. I can only play so much NHL 07 on the PC.

I can't stand sitting around home hearing how good the Bow is right now! I'm going out tomorrow.. leaky nose and all!

Nice cheeler! Wish I had've thought of that.. The only hopper I've tried so far is the Letort - as per Hawgstoppah's list of recommended flies.

He could do a "If you break it, you buy it" policy.

Man.. for a company that makes such great fly line.. I think they have the ugliest website I've ever seen! Their web designer should be shot. http://www.cortlandline.com/

There ya go fisher26. Done deal. TFO Mayfly.. "Do it!"

How much are the TFO Mayfly's?

And there wasn't even any girls around for him to be "showing off" for. Geez.. if you're going to hurt yourself.. at least have the girls around to kiss it better.

I do.. I'd just rather use space on someone else's server.

I find it easier to just upload to a site like photobucket (free registration) and it automatically resizes for you. You just have to copy and paste the links.

Too complicated. I was just looking for a generalization and my motto is K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid

I'll give that a try. I think I always try and pull both ends at the same time.

See my edited post above.

Are you talking about 2 wet flies, or 2 dries, or 1 and 1? If it's 2 wet flies and your nymphing.. what I do is tie the first fly on with a surgeon's loop - it will leave a small loop/tag end that causes the top fly to "stick out to the side" from the tippet - giving it more action in the water. http://www.killroys.com/knots/surgloop.htm 12" - 16" under that I will tie the bottom fly on either with another surgeon's loop or a regular clinch knot. Typically I've been doing a second surgeon's loop because for some reason my clinch knots are always slipping and it's very frustrating to lose fish over and over again because of a bad knot. http://www.killroys.com/knots/clinch.htm I've never tied 2 dries on so someone else can answer that for you. With a "hopper/dropper" combo you can do something similar. I think the recommended setup is to tie the large hopper on with a clinch knot, and then the dropper fly to the bend of the hook of the top fly with another clinch knot.

Awwww how I love jan.. I mean, Justice!

Alright.. this is crazy so far guys! We have.. Birchy - 1 BigBadBrent - 11 Maxwell - 7 AdamJ - 13 Dank - 2 Toolman - 5 quito - 28 Pythagoras - 30 DutchDryFly - 24 MrBotangles - 8 BlueNorther - 35 pacreseltoro - 6 MMAX - 20 fishhead - 37 126barnes - 3 DonAnderson - 51 CDone - 37 LK2 - 3 Lundvike - 6 dryfly - 37 rickr - 1 PeteZahut - 4 fishfreak - 11 Angler - 32 Pipestoneflyguy - 13 Bobr - 4 flyangler - 12 Pikebreath - 30 Kungfool - 15 chidders - 1 Crogg - 5 mikefromsundre - 20 Castuserraticus - 35 clarki - 16 flyslinger - 31 crookednose - 1 ThymallusArcticus - 25 bigbowtrout - 15 Stillwaterguy - 33 monger - 35 bigbadbrown - 9 Hawgstoppah - 20 cheeler - 2 Carlodabroads - 20 Weedy1 - answered about every question but .. haha FISHING for 40 - but I was being picky and waned ff'ing only. ham - 1 SanJuanWorm - 9 Taco - IBFIICR Kale - 1 SilverDoctor - 48 Lynnf - 9 Brownstone - 20 osprey - 40 tieflyer - 58 troutlover - 7 Trailhead - 33 retread - 15 birdman - 16 teck - 1 grannyknot - 3 fisher26 - 8 wongrs - 3 MissinTheBow - 33 Saltamontes - 7 Taiter - 10 yodatrout - 6 plecoptera - 27 LlamaLeach - 37 EQUALS.. (are you ready for this?!?) - 1136 years of fly fishing experience!! Holy cow! What's even crazier is the average years of experience - way higher than I thought at - 17 years each!! (toolman - I was thinking like you - maybe 3 - 5 years on average) That's nuts guys!! If The Canadian Fly Fisher gets in touch with me about the Readers Showcase - I'll be definitely adding this info to my short story!!

I would suggest you get your hands on a copy of "The Essential Guide to Fly Fishing" as well - written by a gentleman named Clive Schaupmeyer.

sometimes we need to pause and remember what life is about: There was a great loss recently in the entertainment world. Larry LaPrise, the Detroit native who wrote the song "Hokey Pokey," died last week at 93. It was especially difficult for the family to keep him in the casket. They put his left leg in . . . and that's when the trouble started!

The last book I read talked about the 80+ year old fly fisherman still learning . . . I have lots of time to go!

Thanks for the kind words everybody! Heh heh.. "Bow therapy" . . . I like it.

Saw this on the news when I was getting ready to leave the hospital.. http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/RTGAMArticle.../calgary.ctv.ca They said he was found north of the zoo.. so it isn't the body of the one guy they never found that drowned when they went over the weir.

The remainder of the tumor can potentially grow bigger again but from what I understand, I won't be having any more surgeries. From here on in they'll deal with it with drugs and possibly radiation as an absolute last resort.