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New member howdy
I just joined the board too -- looks like a fun and friendly place. I found it searching the net for tippet vs. fly line sizes.
I hadn't fly fished in 7 years -- used to be quite into it. Then a new job w/ lots of overtime in front of a computer, and no one to fish with, plus broken graphite rod. Now have a new neighbor who will fish any time! Finally took the rod to our local Cortland dealer fly shop (Bob's Fly Shop, Loveland, CO), and Cortland said they'd fix it for free + shipping if they still had parts for it -- if not, they'd send me a new model for $15 plus shipping. THAT's good customer service -- the rod is 10 years old. Got the fly tying kit restocked and new line on my old reels (Berkley 556 and 530). For now using a 6.5 foot vintage Shakespeare Purist -- early 1970s fiberglass ;~) to beat the brush around here, until my rod comes back. Going to build my own brush beater fly rod this winter -- Julie at Bob's fly shop offers lessons and use of their equipment for free if you buy the blanks from them....more good customer service!
Anyway, HOWDY. I live up in the N Colorado mountains 10 minutes from the S fork of the Poudre and 20 from the Poudre itself. If you need road, trail, weather or fishin' reports for N Colorado, feel free to give me a holler. I'll be watching the board closely.....especially so when I start building that new rod!
DAN
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Good to hear from you Dan! Welcome and Howdy! All you Colorado guys really are making me want to get back to my youthful haunts and see what is going on. Someday....someday. . .
Don
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Welcome aboard Dan. You will find you have good neighbors here at FAOL.
Rocky
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Dan, ...
A very warm Welcome to ya' ... You sure are in a nice place to be getting back into ff'ing http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
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Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
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danbob
Welcome and have a great time. WE do.
Harold
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Welcome to a great place!
P.S. I've beaten ohiotuber twice today!!
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I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!
Cactus AKA "Lucky Dog (Pirate Name)"
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Glad to see you join in! As to rod building, I hope you've already found the plethora of info here about that subject. Same goes of course for fly tying and actually, nearly everything else that has anything to do with our sport. If you don't see it, ask....somebody'll come up with the answer.
BTW, I'll be sorta in your neck of the woods in early Sept. spending a few days on some private sections of the Elk River over by Steamboat Springs. Got any suggestions as to flys to use there?
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Snow on the roof but with fire still in the hearth
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welcome dan..
jack, tuber's wife has beaten him THREE times today....
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Welcome, glad to have ya here.
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Danbob,
Welcome! Keep us posted on that rod you are going to build for yourself and if you can, provide a picture or two of your finished work.