Tokeland dinged me for almost $250 as I accelerated from 30 to 50 mph leaving town. The officer claimed I was doing 50-something. I made my donation, recommended they use the funds for either new gear or training / calibration of existing and have not been back since. 5 years and I am still...
I remember summers in S TX when you could barely carry on a conversation outdoors. My dad and I used to sit in the back yard in lawn chairs and pick cicadas out of the tree with old Daisy spring-action BB guns. I trained my one and only retriever (really a rat terrier mutt) on cicadas one...
Waaay back to fishing trout stocked rivers in TX I had a "corn" fly, inspired by cans of niblets discarded along public stretches of water. Best description is an egg hook with tight yellow wraps and sparse yellow hackle. Maybe it is time to tie a few and see if they will work on these stockers!
This is funny as it rings true with my experience. On my one and only try at bait casting, my gear either went straight up or straight down no matter how hard I focused (may havebeen a beer or two in though, ha). I am glad I did not give up as readily with the fly rod!
I have to add - growing...
Man do I despise those disposable flossers. Not only do they litter parking lots (or worse yet indoor venues), but for some reason they have made it seem acceptable to some to actually floss at a public dining table. Floods, earthquakes, droughts, locusts, floss things...signs of end of times?
Ha! I recall the first time I saw that sign back in the mid 90's - some sharp prankster had painted or taped over the capital K. I have never looked at the sign the same since.
I never had the privilege of meeting or chatting with OMJ, but like so many others here, I enjoyed the heck out of his posts.
He also had good taste in baseball cap styles. How about a commemorative edition of the Old Man hat?
We had $1 Rolling Rock and$0.1 chicken wings at our ocal College bar, but that was about 30 years ago...however, Rolling Rock sells up here for something like $25 / 18 pack here and there, so maybe there is hope? It still gives me hiccups though.
Thanks Freestone, that is what I recall from a few summers ago when the family took a trip there...I was actually a little embarrassed after rigging up my kid's and my rod, tromping down to the Wenatchee, and reading the regs as we sat on the bank. But, any chance to thrash around (legally of...