Len, Your friend might consider doing something like this. It's a shadowbox I built out of cypress I brought from Mississippi, the rod handle is from my first rod, the reel is my first reel, between the two photos on the right is a 1957 vintage Lucky 13, my first lure. The photos are me and 3 of my favorite fishing buddies, there is someone else I wish I had a photo to include but it does not exist. There are two flies I tied mounted on small antler fork points which are mount on a base of red cedar from my parent lawn outside New Orleans. The cedar tree was their only loss except for food in the freezer during Katrina. I have added a few things, a .50 caliber shell from WWII and a couple of reminders. It all gives me pleasure every day.

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