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Call the company. If you can’t speak to said passionate designer and ask the specific questions that interest you, then move on. A small company without a standing reputation must be willing to make that special effort if they want distinguish themselves from a rebranding company.

I’m 6’5” and never have difficulty finding a good bag, despite the limited long options. I buy down only, which limits my choices further. I haven’t bought one in around 8 years, though. I’ve been happy with bags from big boxes like REI, LL Bean. The zipper needs a heavier fabric flap, helps...

Those lines will work on the Queets, big open water. I throw a single hander from the boat with 25-30’ full sink heads ranging from intermediate to T-14. You have to pay attention to your casting angle, because once it lands, your control options are limited primarily to leading / following...

The Cortland compact floater and Type 3 are currently on sale at sierra

Aluminum drift boat trailers with a roller do exist, just not sure what’s available near you. Koffler in Oregon sells them.

Shiggy rhymes with Diggy

If you are willing to use a shooting head, can cut down a full sink line that’s 2 or 3 weights too heavy

Can you divulge?

Haku - a random new find, courtesy of youtube

This is the dance. The end result of who fishes is exactly the same as if no words were spoken, minus the bitterness.

I don’t know the years, but I believe that some of the “rebadging” was more like sharing components … e.g., Merc buying Yamaha blocks, and building them out.

Mercs have earned their reputation for poorer reliability, but the current bigger blocks of 90hp+ (150 hp released in 2011, 90/115 released 2014) have proven excellent reliability. Any “high performance” motors (Yamaha SHO, Merc ProXS) that squeeze out extra hp will be more trouble prone

With any luck will get to stretch this with a popper for ocean coho, thanks!

TC would wear a lace bra on top of the pfd if it meant getting tuna. I’ll supply the bra if you’ll snap the photo

The Forester is one of the few small-mid vehicles with ground clearance that fits my tall frame. Our 2001 (named “Martina” after Martina Navratilova, who was peddling them 25 years ago) has gone amazing places with great reliability, besides the known head gasket flaw. Now at 220K she burns...

a tribute of sorts …

I’m looking forward to a non-dynastic remainder of the season

I use the same marine-grade grease as on my boat trailer.

I’ve had trouble with sinking lines. I guess the tungsten coils look scary in the scanner. I now carry my reels but check my lines.

I never went electronic in Oregon. A bunch of my friends regret doing so and now need to go into an ODFW office to revert to paper. One glitch is the e-system uses GPS to autofill your location when tagging fish. When fishing a river mouth to the ocean, the autofill gets it wrong every time...