Probably posted on June 30 because I had casted the #6 weight with a #7 WF-I for snook the day before & threw the #11 weight for the tarpon. Should have gotten the heaviest bamboo 9 foot rod & an old heavy Pflueger reel to throw flies at the snook & practice for the #11 weight, which would have been a whole lot lighter after the bamboo; thus resulting in muscle cramps in places that I forgot existed when typing ! As for FL_SKIBUM's idea of a short legged bar stool on the side of a hill on the windiest of days, where in south Florida is there a hill other than around bridges or a swale ? A 3 foot hill isn't like the foothills of the Rockies ! It would have taken a bar stool with 4 different length legs to even get close to the 2 foot chop & the quartering waves action ! A bar stool in a high wire act would be a simulation of the conditions that, as a spectator would be very interesting !