Having downloaded Al Cambell’s stuff, savaged the fly tying board whilst saving huge chunks of it as text, and otherwise lurking as I love to do, it’s time to stick my butt out in the breeze.I want to say special hellos to Buddy Sanders, Al Beatty (I got one of your videos), Alan (and mebbe AlanB, they might be the same person), Royal Wulff, and Hans Weillenman.Hans, I talked with you often on a now defuunct board about 15 years ago. Had no idea you were so famous.Buddy, you are PRACTICALITY. Love it.Royal Wulff, you read to much but spit it out in digests very well. Keep pondering.I got more ideas in the last two months than I’ll ever have fingers to tie.There are other good sites, but the seasoned folks tend to be here. High signal to noise ratio.Now, discuss amongst youselves while I re-duct tape one of my guides.-Yours very truely… … dang, what’s my nick on here? I’ll know once I post. I REALLY should stop lurking.
I’ll leave it to your imagination whether the guide was breathing or falling off my old South Bend Granpaw rod. grin.
Welcome to the board HalfTrack. You will get a lot of information here. There are some warmwater flyfishers in Ohio on here.
knucks
Welcome aboard from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Welcome to the board from south Texas. You picked a great place to hang out.
Glad to meet you; Buckeyes are always welcome.
Regards,
Scott
Easy there big fella…I resemble that remark…
Hey HalfTrack, glad to have another Buckeye in here, they tend to gang up on us from time to time. What part of the great state are you from??
Brad
Eric’s home water, as I understand thing now, is the Mad River.The son of a gun fishes TROUT in southern Ohio. Can you believe it? grin.BTW, I shoulda said Hello to Eric in my intial posting. As far as I can tell, Ohio hasEric on Considered Old Flys and Chris up near Lake Erie holding down the Ohio fort, withJoe on BUFF (The Cinc fly fishers) nudging in there too. I’m gonna steal ALL their ideas,put new terms to them, post Other People’s Flies as my own, and become a guru…or mebbe not.
Welcome aboard HalfTrack from the left coast.
Another one bites the dust. Welcome to the world of poverty and missed dreams. Once this sport gets its claws into you, you can kiss goodbye to your bank balance and any free time you once had. You’ll always need a new rod / reel / line or more fly tying stuff. Then there is the travel, all those exotic places you’ll just have to fish. Someone once asked John Gierach,
“How can someone who drives around in such a beat up old pickup afford to fish with such snazzy fly rods?” He replied,
“The answer should be obvious.”
Sorry there’s no hope, you’ve done the best thing you could in joining a support group like this one. Welcome.
I’m not the same person as Alan. (At lease I don’t think so). I’m the exiled Englishman living in the Highlands of Scotland, considering claiming political asylum.
Cheers,
A.