These are a few of my favorite things🎶

[Rob Allen]

Hell yes! Love good road trip.

I recommend Glenwood Arkansas.. great little "seafood" buffet. Tried catfish for the first time. It was ok. But their stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy were to die for.. was a great way to recover from covid.( two weeks after of course)

 

[Coach Potter]

A few of my favorite things:
A Salmon Fly hatch

A good Smallmouth spinnerbait bite wind, rain, and reeling as fast as you can..

A slow drifting bobber sliding under as a Chinook takes.

Long road trips to places I've never been

Tastey food, very uncommon since covid.

There really is nothing like a wide open spinner bait bite

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

There really is nothing like a wide open spinner bait bite

Except maybe a wide open popper bite.

 

[Wanative]

This is a great thread.

 

[Zak]

Another simple one that often comes in handy.
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Fantastic stuff for moving!

 

[O' Clarkii Lewisi]

 

[O' Clarkii Lewisi]

 

[O' Clarkii Lewisi]

 

[Rob Allen]

Except maybe a wide open popper bite.

But a wide open popper bite is kinda normal happens most evenings.

 

[M_D]

Fantastic stuff for moving!

I use it to keep bundles of planed wood from warping before I get around to gluing up whatever the current project is.

 

[Guy Gregory]

My snowblower has a plug-in electric starter.

After years of choke, swear, and ether, it's literally one of the most useful inventions since the galvanized bucket.

 

[cdnred]

Smartwool socks:
I love these. Durable, comfortable, dry quick, warm, wick well. Best sock I've come across. Pretty much wear these every day from October thru April and any time in the woods or in waders.

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www.smartwool.com

How do they suit you for length..? For wearing outdoors or anywhere during the winter, I favor socks that run around mid-calf to help keep my feet warmer. I checked out their website and loved how they use this "sock finder" to find that socks you're looking for. I'll have to look at trying a pair out. My local REI carry them but not in the "over the calf" height..

 

[SurfnFish]

the two faves that mean everything to me....

an 8' big wave surfboard made by a friend that travelled the world with me for two decades, and somehow survived waves that routinely snapped the other boards in my travel quiver...my son will paddle my ashes out on it when the time comes

a knife and sheath that was hand made for me by my friend Captain Al Guest when we were skippers in the same charter fleet during the mid 70's...At 17 Al was the rear gunner (lied about his age to enlist) on a Dauntless dive bomber in the Pacific that was shot down, then spent two decades as a Leo leading a gang strike team before surviving a shootout that sent him on to his final career as a skipper. Easily the most fearless and upright man I've ever known

 

[flybill]

Heated seats after a long winter day of steelheading..

Salmon fly hatch or a caddis hatch where you catch your biggest trout on the Missouri River, by yourself.. and have to breathe through your nose so you don't eat the bugs yourself!

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

How do they suit you for length..? For wearing outdoors or anywhere during the winter, I favor socks that run around mid-calf to help keep my feet warmer. I checked out their website and loved how they use this "sock finder" to find that socks you're looking for. I'll have to look at trying a pair out. My local REI carry them but not in the "over the calf" height..

They come up a bit below the calf. They do have a ton of good OTC options though if that's your jam.

 

[Xoxo]

This Le Creuset 5.5 quart Dutch oven is my favorite thing in my kitchen. It cost more than my 586 XP Sage rod and i use It a lot more than i do that fly rod these days for sure. My husband bought it for me for Christmas during Covid because i was baking bread like everyone else. But the best thing is is that it helps me get my roux way darker in less time and my gumbo is getting better and better !

 

[O' Clarkii Lewisi]

This Le Creuset 5.5 quart Dutch oven is my favorite thing in my kitchen. It cost more than my 586 XP Sage rod and i use It a lot more than i do that fly rod these days for sure. My husband bought it for me for Christmas during Covid because i was baking bread like everyone else. But the best thing is is that it helps me get my roux way darker in less time and my gumbo is getting better and better !
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No offense, as I really like the Le Creuset pieces, but the high temps involved in my bread baking is really hard on enamelware. I use plain cast iron for my bread baking.

 

[Roper]

 

[Xoxo]

No offense, as I really like the Le Creuset pieces, but the high temps involved in my bread baking is really hard on enamelware. I use plain cast iron for my bread baking.

It can sustain a 500 degree temperature for bread baking. Does your bread recipe require a higher temperature ? I’m not baking bread in it like i was but i love it for my Bayou Dirty Rice, spaghetti meat sauce , bolognese, chili, and a Cooks Illustrated Italian meat sauce recipe that scorches the bottom where it never looks like you will be able to clean it but it always comes out ok.

 

[Otter]

Two of my favourite things:

My dad's Memorial Cross, given to families of Canadian Forces vets who died as a result of injuries sustained during their service. In our case, dad served in the army during WW II, in Germany, France, Belgium, and Holland.




Second favourite thing:
Dad's WW II Canadian Army Pacific Force shoulder patch. This was a special volunteer Canadian infantry division that was formed towards the end of the war in Europe, as part of the American plan to invade the Japanese home islands, called Operation Olympic. Dad volunteered for this Force while he was still in Europe. Before they signed up, soldiers were told that few would survive, for two reasons:
One, every Japanese person, military and civilian, had committed to fight to the death while defending their country. Second, and considering reason number one, the Canadians would be the first troops to land, so this was predicted to basically be a suicide unit. They earned this "point of the spear" position by their reputation in fighting as "shock troops" in Europe. Japan's surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called off Operation Olympic, so dad came home instead.