and balance the monitor to show off pictures of my grandkids.
LOL! Get a LAPTOP now, Grampa!
Posted on 06/05/2002 12:10:14 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
If anyone wants to donate a new and powerful laptop to a kindly old Grampa to show off the pictures of his Grand Children, please step right up.
Well, if we're going to get honest, call it "Progressive Metastasizing Cannibalistic Socialism".
I like your style.
And there's always another adjective one can add...'flesh-eating', for instance. lol
That can get to be a serious addiction. Farm pond bluegill on a 4-5 wt rod w/2lb leader and little popping bugs is about the most fun you can have with your clothes on!
We have Putah Creek which is a stream that flows out of Lake Berryessa and 6 lb + native rainbows are not that unusual. I had one break off my reel seat from that 4 weight Sage. No more light gear there. Nothing under a 6 or seven weight rod for me.
I hurt my shoulder last May and now use a Sage 13'6" 7 wt Traditional Spey rod on Putah Creek as I can't cast ver far for long with a single handed rod with the bad shoulder. I get a lot of funny looks and remarks when I walk up with that close to 14' rod. Then, when I hook and release a couple of those biggies that even great casters can't get to with a single handed rod. The hecklers start pleading about what kind of rod is that? If they really whine, I say "No Habla English!"
The government has been expanding which is the opposite direction of what it should be doing. Shrinking by becoming more effective and efficient at doing its legitimate job of protecting individual rights and private property rights against war, terrorism, crime and fraud. Right to the point of being virtually out of sight out of mind. Yet open to any citizen that wants to inspect it closer.
Larger type is easier on my old eyes.
Maybe the down page button would be good when you see Q's name. Someone one another thread said holding the down page button down makes my colors a pretty kalidescope sort of effect. You might want to try it.
Conventions have never to rarely been exceedingly popular with me. Some net conventions seem to be in that ballpark with me, too.
It's amazing the things we choose to be offended by.
Out here in N. Kali and Oregon, with some really big, strong and fast trout or steelhead, most automatics would becomed fused after one or two runs or have parts and pieces on your reel seat and in the river at your feet. A twenty inch red side trout on the Deschutes in Oregon can be past 50 to 100 yards of your backing before you can yell fish on. The basic Orvis Battenkill is at a loss with these hot fish.
When you are fishing for steelhead which are so fast and powerful, if you get you fingers into the handle as it is spinning around during a run. You could get fractures on your finger tips if they get in the way of the spinning handles as the line shoots out.
As I get more into the big trout and the powerful fish, I use the Gunnison reels, Lamsons, Loop and the new BattenKill Large Arbor reels. With the come back of salmon from late summer throughout the winter, you can be fishing for trout or steelhead and end up with a 30+# King salmon here or in Oregon last fall a hot 10 to 12 pound Coho/Silver. These fish will destroy any rod below a 7 weight and any basic reel. Many guides now will not let you fish with less than a 10-wt fly rod if you are after salmon and steelhead in late summer or early fall.
A good friend bought my Orvis, 4 piece five weight with the Orvis BK 5/6. He didn't listen to me and went on the lower Sac in October. He hooked into probably a 35# fresh king. It broke off half of the last rod section, took off and burnt up the reel and broke the last knot on a hundred yards of backing on a 90 foot line. In about 40 seconds, he lost about $500 of gear. His friends had to help him to shore, and he shook for about 10 minutes. He is lucky that the line didn't get around his fingers, hand, wrist or some other part of his body.
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