SilverDoctor

Naa.. if you fish the river for over 20 years you're bound to accidentally catch something.

Dam I'm a couple of years yet from total legal Geezerhood yet. I actually enjoy wandering down to the local fly shop to renew. Give me a chance to chat and look at the spring line of stuff

At the same time do yourself a favor and buy a case for both the rod and reel, sure saves headaches.

Are you sayig the Bass Pro shop net is the same quality as the Brodin Ghost nets?

I was using my 4 wt. Meiser, Bob makes a phenomenal rod. Pav, I did get a heart stopping tail walk out of the fish. Had to jump start this 61 year old heart after with a wee dram o" scotch.

Could not have gotten it even this close without the Spey rod. Close to three quarter of an hour after he nailed the bugger. Out to the backing so I could see my reel seat 3 times. Hook straightened out after the shot. He was a couple of feet longer than my Meiser.

Yes...

Definitely sturgeon in the bow.

Felt soles are a better grip than rubber. I run about a dozen wading stainless screw's in each soul for grip. Work great, much safer.

Once saw a skaget shooting head sail out over the Skina River. Must have been a good 80 yards. Sure was a pretty cast, and the guy got some nice distance. He didn't seem to appreciate his great casting ability though.

Have you checked the old posts on this.

What everyone said plus traditional mudders fished dry make great and skid bitch hopper imitations.

16" goldfish last year, fought like a goldfish, someones pet freed, glad I caught it, one less evasive species.

Well said, if you can afford it why not buy a quality product.

A travel fly rod can come in really handy. I have a vintage fiberglass telescopic fly rod that is a permanent fixtrue in my luggage. Has alleviated many a boring hour.

I could not be so impetuous to try to comment on such a personal and special thing. I choose to instead post the words of others that sum it up so eloquently. ------------------- "If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church." ~by Tom Brokaw~ ------------------- "Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God." ~by Tony Blake~ ------------------- "In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing." ~by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976~ ------------------- "Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise." ~by Norman Fitzroy Maclean, A River Runs Through It~ ------------------- "My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack." ~by Ray Bergman, author of Trout, and Just Fishing~ ------------------- "There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind." ~by Washington Irving~ ------------------- "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman." ~by Norman Fitzroy Maclean, A River Runs Through It~ ------------------- "Unless one can enjoy himself fishing with the fly, even when his efforts are unrewarded, he loses much real pleasure. More than half the intense enjoyment of fly-fishing is derived from the beautiful surroundings, the satisfaction felt from being in the open air, the new lease of life secured thereby, and the many, many pleasant recollections of all one has seen, heard and done." ~by Charles F. Orvis, 1886~ ------------------- "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it." ~by Koos Brandt~ ------------------- "The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing." ~Babylonian Proverb~ ------------------- "Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish." ~by Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946~ ------------------- "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ~by Henry David Thoreau~ ------------------- How could I possibly best that

Sounds like a plan, thanks.

Oh sure, tempt me with a great read I haven't got and it's ended.

Good time to buy one with the dollar being close to the US

Use my Nor vice as well, as for wire I use an old lamp cord. Lots of good found sources.

The Marquis is a great reel, I have a large one and it is awesome.

There was a period that I used disks and own a few still but have gone back to my Hardy Perfects and St. Georges etc.. I find Click Prawl protects leaders better. I love my little Islander IR2 (and you buy Canadian), slowed a 26"brown with shoulders last summer. Mind you I did grow up with clicks.

Love those Windcutters.

Yawn...

Give me a shout, I pm'd you my phone.