Just when I had talked myself out of buying a new TFO Axiom 8 wt I happened upon Castwell's weekly column. So, taking his advice to heart and wanting to do my part to keep the industry strong, I am going ahead with the purchase.

Of course my wife thinks I am nuts as I already have, well, many fly rods. I even shared the wisdom of Castwell with her but got a modification of the old mother's admonition, "if he jumped off a bridge would you do it too?", she used to let fly when the kids wanted to do something she considered foolish.

But, the column was just the push I needed to toss frugality into the can with many other seemingly worthy but bad ideas, like giving up beer. Thanks JC!