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Old canoe man myself! Last few years it's been a 15' aluminum, but I've been fishing from a canoe of one sort or another for some 30 years now. You can add any number of inexpensive mods to help out-...

Spey, a float trip of the duration you describe would be impossible to achieve on the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies... four days will take from put-in to the Kansas border! The first day would...

All of what Steve says is absolutely correct, and explains in detail the natural mechanisms of hatching insects.
I note, however- (harrumph)- he has no answer to the question "Dude...! Why weren't...

Cycler, the gill covers are sharp as hell; but I guess the real danger is that people are focused on the teeth and (in my case) don't think about the hand being right behind them when Mr. Pike...

I do, Jim! Thats a 14" bass , there.... ahem

Worse than the teeth are the gill covers- those are like razors! I have a nice scar along my left thumb from an eight pounder; I was holding him just behind the gills whilst removing the hook and he...

So I was casting a fly up along the far bank on a stream here in Colorado on a lazy Sunday, not really 'fishing' but just enjoying the cool Fall weather and this cute l'il bugger decided to...

Thanks, BQ- I'd appreciate any info although it doesn't really matter; I just like to know everything I can about anything I'm connected with. Some unkind folk who love me say I'm anal that...

Bobby, that's a sweet rod and in better shape than mine! Same red plastic butt cap but the reel seat is all different; mine has two blued steel sliding rings and the line guides seem more appropriate...

Hi Bob- The rod is 6'9" and two piece. The guides are wrapped maroon with yellow ends, like the FA series. The butt and tip sections are varnished, with the PM Okano signature under the varnish....

Thanks for the welcome, Betty! (presents four dozen assorted virtual doughnuts;)). And thanks for the link; perhaps they have a historian-type who'll take the time to check it out. I had thought they...

Yes, yes- I hear the hisses and boos re 'spinning rod'!! Sheesh... but where I fish- the High Country of Colorado (and North Park specifically)- taking a spinning rod as back-up to the fly rod can...