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Funny thing about plays like that is if they hadn't recovered it and the Colts won a lot of people in NO would be calling for Payton's head. Kind of like when Bellichik went for it on 4th down against the Colts.

Ditto.

Hockey bores me to tears.

10-6 Colts at the half. Not exactly the high scoring shootout a lot of people were predicting so far.

Darren, do you mean temple dog or is finn dog a temple dog replacement? From what I've been able to figure out temple dog is a step above arctic fox but below polar bear. Haven't seen it in person yet, so I don't know what the movement on it is like.

Those Eumer monster cones look pretty cool. Check out this fly that was tied with one: http://speypages.com/speyclave/showthread.php?t=38516 I wanted to pick some up at the show, but I only had a few bucks left on me and didn't want to pay the atm fee (I must be a cheap fly tier). Luckily it looks like Fish Tales is going to be bringing some in.

I bought some tubes from the fly shop today instead of an auto parts place, but I also bought imitation jungle cock eyes because I won't spend $150 or so on a real cape. I'm not sure if that makes me a cheap fly tier or not. Where are we drawing the line on this one?

This kind of how it looks?

Yeah, I think those tube vise adapters sell anywhere between $20-$40. A bodkin or something is ok if you just want to see if you like tying on tubes, but a proper tube vise or adapter is much more convenient if you want to tie tubes with any regularity.

Colin, I'm guessing you're using a regular tube cutter but what exactly is the flaring tool?

I remember reading about people using brake line tubing or something similar before. Could possibly try hobby shops as well.

Just buy the rod you want. If you enjoy it, then it was money well spent regardless if that happens to be $200 or $800. Who cares what anyone else thinks since they won't be the ones using it.

On the end of a Loop Opti Power spey rod. Don't know if you can get reel seats like that anywhere else. http://www.looptackle.se/website1/1.0.1.0/745/1/

Gimmick for single-handed rods. Can see some spey casters seeing use for it, but this is a much more elegant solution:

Ah, that sucks that you can't take it out and cast it first. I've bought rods in the past based on tons of good reviews that didn't fit my casting style. That being said I do have the 590 Z lined with an SA GPX and it casts beautifully. Everything I've heard about the 390 Z is that it's a great rod. If I were looking for a 3 wt I wouldn't think twice about getting that one based on my experience with the 5 wt.

Done and done.

Have you cast a Z-Axis yet? Don't know about your other rods, but the Z is way different from your TFO Ti's.

Love my Z5126. Great little stick for the Bow.

4 piece for convenience.

I had a really tough time deciding which one to vote for. They're all really nice ties...

I think they had a 7126 TCX in the Sage booth at the expo. I didn't try it because I have this little problem where I buy too many rods.

http://www.deneki.com/2010/01/scott-fiberhammer-review/ I would've gone with Glasshammer myself, but I guess that might imply breakage of some sort.

I think the fish he was releasing was a trout and the pike came at him from in the water.