Recent content by fatbillybob

lot of hoot owl has already enforce. Other states fish and game like idaho don't believe in hoot owl and their fish populations seem just fine.

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Check your car coolant hoses! I'm doing mine on my truck now. Don't forget heater hoses and any plastic connections and fittings. Those things break at about the 100k mile point.

You can ask SF what works for his area. But I'm thinking you can use 30ft of 300grain shooting head to a mono runner or a rio outbound short head to a mono runner or an obs integrated line. OBS come in float to sink6. I find most switch rods kinda soft so to keep the feel faster and crisp I...

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No but I have a retractable lanyard on my staff. When speycasting that's when I must manage the most line like 5 or so 10ft loops. I can position the staff behind dangled by the lanyard and then cast without tangling it. I do not think anything good could come of a wrist lanyard. Being...

Wow! I fished out of fernie in the 80's. Now it would cost me almost $250 in licenses to fish for a week. I guess that's good for the locals but I wonder if tourist dollars fell? Xmas island is only 100 bucks.

After 50+ years of fly fishing and "been there done that" I have thought about rod building for 20 years. As I near retirement I have more time to fill so there it is finally taking a dip in the rod building pool. As a fitness guy, you might appreciate the necessity for an old guy to do...

That looks great!! I love custom-built. I do not think I will ever own a new factory rod again. I just built my 1st Trout spey rod. It's coming out awesome. Next build is a fast 6 piece CTS travel Xmas island rod. I might have stumbled onto a new addiction.

I sleep like a baby! The key for me sleeping in rustic conditions or outside camping is to have a mosquito netting blanket about the size of a twin bed. I'll put my sleeping bag on part of it then pull some netting over the top of me. This keeps all critters away from me but lets breeze...

I got a lot of those fishing shirts too plus columbias and others untreated. Shirts of that era were roomy on my body. I minimize deet on my skin. I always wore a t-shirt under a deet sprayed fishing shirt and deet sprayed hat. I always felt the deet worked better than permethrin but I gets...

Skin so soft has worked great for my family for decades. The trick is to use the SSS bath oil in the shower before toweling off. That traps the SSS into the skin better and locks in moisture better at high dry altitudes too. Then DEET spray on cloths or a bug suit if it is really bad.

I lived in DC beginning 1980. The fourth was always fun there. This year should be awesome

That is so far from the truth.... the scotus ruling on CU means the government cannot restrict independent political expenditures by corporations, labor unions, and other associations, citing First Amendment free speech protections. Note the words labor unions and corporations! Those who...

My intentions are not to hurt your feelings. If anything I have posted is factually incorrect I am listening. That's what having a discussion is all about.