Dave, oh yeah, I would have bailed on the boat! I have never had the pleasure yet of a up close a personal visit yet, and I hope to keep it that way for the hopefully short time that I will still be here. Since I fish alone a good share of the time now, I am really careful while I am out.

You must be from IA orginally the way you talk. I lived in the Des Moines area for 10 years. That is where I would probably want to go back to also. There are a lot of fishing opportunities there within an hour. However you had great rivers that I have not had the pleasure of getting on yet down there in the Hill country.

I long to get back up to northeast IA to trout fish. There are so many things I want to do again that I have missed. I will look forward to maybe meeting some of you once I get back down the road.