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I've been a 49er fan since I was nine, I will be 83 in April.

I'm a softy, but I picked up a TFO Legacy 8'6" 4wt for those times I wanted shorter. It almost became my favorite 4wt. I was surprised how good a faster rod could feel. I still prefer my LLBean 9' 4wt.

Since I am a Spring and Pawl nutcase I really enjoyed this thread. I was wondering what clickers people were using that were deafening other people on the river as my fishing buddy says he never hears my Marquis screaming. I realize now that most on this forum are in the Zen of returning Big Fish.

Yes, the distance the receiver can be from the oven, grill on the patio, etcetera can be a problem. That is why I use a tablet that I can leave near the cooker. I researched 'wireless' thermometers and, there are models with thinner probes and greater distance, but the probes are wired to the...

I use the Meater on occasion, I am not a great cook, but I don't see any issues. I agree that the probe is maybe too thick, especially compared to my instant read probe. When set up properly it tells you how things are cookin', and when it's time to get it off the heat. I like it. My wife uses...

My neighbor, I call him the "kid" (he's 60) uses a Battenkill Disc. He asked me if the click could be turned off, so I opened it up and disengaged the pawl. He fished with it awhile even after my sermon about fly fishing reels should make a clicking sound. He didn't like how functioned in the...

Was he walking across a busy highway? The one "clicker" I have that is too loud is a old Cortland Rim Fly with plastic pawls. I don't use that one.

I love the sound of my clickers and always give a fish a chance to pull some line off the reel, but Fred who is usually maybe 40-50 yards away says he never hears it.

All of my fly lines are spooled on either a Hardy Marquis #6, CFO III, IV, or a Battenkill. I set the spring tension to the lowest setting. I've caught Brown Trout from 10" to 20" that rarely try to take line off the reel, where even an 8" Rainbow will make them sing a little. I only fish for...

Thanks Jake. We moved back to Boise 7 years ago so I'm fishing some different rivers now. No more sailing.

I lived on Bainbridge Island for about 23 years. We did a lot of sailing, and no trout fishing. The sailing years were a hiatus from fly fishing, but when I dusted off the old Fenwick 6wt I found that the Yakima from Cle Elum to Yakima was good. I always felt that anything on the West side of...

Thanks. But I don't get it!

I admit that I haven't gas about the NBA since Bird, but who are the Dubs?

I lived on BI from 94 to 16, and did a lot of sailing. About 08 Kenny and I picked up fly fishing again. We were both trout hunters, he living in Clarkston and me on BI we started fishing the Yak. I moved back to Idaho in 16, and that's the year we lost Kenny to Pancreatic cancer.

HDH=DT6 (HDG=WF6), C=a level 7wt.

I considered that as a possibility. Thanks.

While camping at Wallowa last year this youngster wandered by my bbq (I was in the campsite next to us to take these pics.

Steve. I compared some of my prized wine corks (yes, I keep some corks after the vino is consumed) to the grips on my only self made build, and a couple of production rods. None of them were large enough (in diameter) to form the bulge at the forward end of the grip. I noticed that you use a...

Just a fyi on wine corks. Not every corked bottle of wine has a real "Cork" cork in it. Some are like MDF plywood, bits and chunks glued together, and others are some type of plastic. I've uncorked a few bottles over 6 decades 😁.

My fishing is pretty simple, so my licenses (Idaho, and Oregon NR) reside in a zippered pocket of my chest pack. If I decide to switch to a larger/smaller pack I have to transfer tools, tippet, and licenses.