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Good advice! Got married when we were 18...and we've been married over 56 years....only because we matured in a compatible manner via sheer luck.

Many years ago I worked with an old Italian American whose parents first met on their wedding day. Their large families lived far apart in rural America but had immigrated from the same community in Italy and knew each other well. While his parents were married on the first day they'd met they...

The bright side is that there are no children impacted by the breakup; my long-dead MIL had four husbands and kids with with each one.... which rippled into several lifetimes of problems. An absolute mess that will never be resolved.

It will, with time, get better. Can't hurry the grieving process, but keeping active helps the process along. None of us old farts on the forum are even the same people we were in our earlier decades of life (most particularly our twenties and thirties). That means it's quite unpredictable...

Indeed! In the 65 years I've used the improved clinch knot it's never failed me...and that includes hard fighting heavy-bodied river redbands at nearly 30" in length. Over the years I fooled around with various loop knots like the Orvis knot to improve fly movement but frankly I found they...

I'd have stayed out of quite a bit of trouble if I had known more about knots and less about how to unhook bras.

The accumulated memories of literally hundreds (no exaggeration) of day and camping trips made with family to a specific flyfishing only lake in NE WA over the past 60+ years. Have photos of our children and then their children sitting on the same lakeside rocks. Hoping to one day introduce...

Pretty common for tiny bass to attempt to eat Rapalas much bigger than they are.

OK, I'll add my own personal boomerific bitch story, but it didn't involve the USPS, but rather FedEx. I've never had a problem with the USPS. A few years ago I had a custom flytying bench/cabinet made by an old master-craftsman in Missouri. I live in Spokane. As expected, the work was...

Why people put their faith in actors, athletes, and other 'notable personalities' regarding significant financial decisions and national policy direction is simply unfathomable....but it obviously works...we continue to follow their completely unqualified and self-interested advice through...

Nope, they don't. He'll be riding 32" wheels before you know it!

I've been hitting a few trails on my fatbike. Quite a workout but it's extremely surefooted and forgiving. Just topped off the sealant in my HT tires and intend to ride a bit tomorrow. So damn hot I'll have to hit the trails early. Does your son have a dropper post on that bike...a dropper...

I'd go with an Olive Willy on a stout size 12 hook with a 3X fluoro tippet. They don't ALWAYS work but if they're hitting anything this pattern will usually also produce. Tied with a durable OD chenille and the thread whip finished behind the red glass bead and you've got a very durable fly. I...

Blessed quiet here last night, no doubt because two of the largest local tribes recently outlawed sale or use of fireworks on their reservations. The cost of fighting wildfires and recovering from loss of housing finally outweighed the short-term profit from Pyro sales.

Fished a NE Washington lake last week and observed something very unusual...huge numbers of humongous tadpoles (4" to 6" long and thick-bodied). Fished the lake (and many others in the region) for years and never encountered anything like this. I'm thinking they were American Bullfrog...

At 75 I don't regret any of my adventures (many of which the best were a bit scary) and am exceedingly glad they weren't deferred until I was so old that a preference for 'creature comforts' outweighed experiencing the world. For so many of my contemporaries their world closed in very...

Full Metal Jacket....every time I watch it it keeps getting funnier!

I personally have no problem threading the tippet through the eye or the space in front of the eye when tying an improved clinch knot...and after 70 years of using that particular knot this old dog sees no reason to change. I also have no problem tying clinch knots on 2mm tippet rings. My...