This year I turn 50....sounds old. I don't feel old mentally....but I hurt now after too much work and at times need to take it easy for a day after. Now when I am wading, or after a long day on the stream, I feel every Airborne operation I was on.....all 220-some....at once! So I stand still longer. It's a forced patience. And at times it works in my favor since I tend to cover a hole better. I can't see up close as well anymore, so I change flies less. Seems some of my old patterns do much better than I thought....now that they get a chance. My wife worries that I hunt & fish most times alone....wading in the winter and climbing trees in the dark. That doesn't worry me. I'm more worried about the soccer mom driving the minivan....in the mall parking lot. I'm not as fast as I used to be.....and those &^%$#es are scary!