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I'm even later to this party than Phil. Firstly, congratulations on a great choice as your first bamboo rod! Line choice: my personal feeling is that the 3-7/8 ouncer loads fine and casts really nicely in a relaxed way with a true to weight 5wt line, I tend to prefer floating DT lines. 4wt...

Um, you had time to go fishing on your honeymoon??!! 🤡 Just kidding, of course, and congratulations to the both of you. And, next time, if you're in Europe again, bring her to Rome. Or are you still here on this side of the pond? Thanks much for sharing a great TR, Kenneth

That brings back really fond memories of one we kept for almost 20 years in a pond in the back of the house. I was about 10 years old when I caught it, classic nightcrawler on hook method, out of a swamp near the house, it was about 8 inches long, IIRC. Took it home, threw it in the pond, and...

Here's a cellphone (Samsung S22 Ultra) shot of last night's Supermoon, with help from "Deep learning" AI (more here: Samsung AI and the moon), and onboard photo tools -- the original image was cropped, with light balance, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, and exposure manipulation done...

Super Mega LIKE! Wow, Steve, that was a truly absorbing read, and with superb accompanying photos. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I spent several years working on herptile taxonomy, and still have more than a passing interest. In those years we did collecting trips in much of Southeast...

Ah, Steve, make a great looking one piece bamboo rod, add a classic Hardy reel, proceed to catch lots of fish adding karma to combo, what could be better?! Congrats, Kenneth

Exactly right, which is why I'll continue to eat spaghetti/linguine/bucatini/fettucine or any other "long" pasta with chopsticks, come hell or high water. Heck, I even eat risotto with chopsticks. Great thing is, my 12-year old daughter sees the wisdom of eating long pasta with chopsticks, and...

I go to Malaysia practically every year, and as you can imagine, I was bound to see a few herps visiting one of the world's megadiverse countries with more than 550 species of reptiles and 240 species of amphibians. Here are a few highlights: Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). Floating...

That looks really good. Just an observation, not meant to be criticism in any way, here in Italy (some) eyebrows would be raised if you added parmigiano/grana padano/pecorino or any other grated aged cheese to pasta containing any type of seafood -- in the more traditional seafood restaurants...

I'm thinking it should be the other way around. Your work is outstanding, thanks much for sharing. Kenneth

Happy Belated Birthday, Ive! Kenneth

RIP, Mark. Deepest condolences to his loved ones. Kenneth

Have fun with the tilapia removal, then perhaps a neat segue into the "What are you eating thread?" Kenneth

Forum users. Here in Italy the Google and Cloudflare DNS servers just work better than the local ones, so I use them as default. Not just the fact that they're faster at resolving (I know, I know, the difference is in milliseconds, but add up all those milliseconds...), but they don't have...

I wonder if it's somehow traffic related, as in there's a bottleneck somewhere. I have had no problems yet, not even slowdowns, but I'm on this site most often when most of you guys are fast asleep, so maybe I've got the whole bandwidth all to my lonesome. Another thing: have any of you tried...

Since the last time I reported, still no problems over here in Europe, site is as quick as ever. Here, I'll post a pic of my good friend doing his thing, maybe that'll make your troubles magically disappear. 🤡, Comrade Kenneth

FWIW, I'm on this site throughout the day (Central Europe Time), and have not noticed any sluggishness. Kenneth

Any post with a happy kid in it will get an automatic "Like!" from me. Two thumbs up and thanks much for sharing, Kenneth

The way this is going, Chuck Norris will probably end up asking DimeBrite for travel-with-fishing tips. Thanks for another epic adventure, Kenneth

Simply outstanding, Steve, the whole series! Thanks much for sharing, Kenneth