Tim J. wrote:
...
Have you ever expressed
regret? Try it; you'll like it. ;-)

I don't have a lot of regrets and the ones I have
are of things I didn't do, not of things I've done.
Hell, if I was gonna regret it I wouldn't have done
it in the first place. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Tim J. wrote:
...
Have you ever expressed
regret? Try it; you'll like it. ;-)

I don't have a lot of regrets and the ones I have
are of things I didn't do, not of things I've done.
Hell, if I was gonna regret it I wouldn't have done
it in the first place. ;-)

I think you're right - most of my regrets are for things I didn't do. In
the heat of summer I regret not fishing more when the air was cooler,
and in the dead of winter I regret not fishing more when it was warmer.
I regret not telling the people I love how much I do, and telling them
more often. But, I regret having some not-nice conversations with people
no longer reading or posting here (you regulars can BMIA) and I regret
running off some newbies before I really knew who they were. There's a
lot more, but I'd probably regret posting it. . .

So I don't regret it later, I appreciate this group a great deal. When I
last went fishing a week ago, I was thinking that nearly everything I
was using and every action I took to catch some very nice fish was a
result of being here, getting good advice, and meeting some way-cool
people. I get to live vicariously through the TR's of people visiting
places that I can now picture. ROFF rules! But I digress. . .
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"Tim J." wrote:

I regret not telling the people I love how much I do, and telling them
more often. But, I regret having some not-nice conversations with people
no longer reading or posting here (you regulars can BMIA) and I regret
running off some newbies before I really knew who they were. There's a
lot more, but I'd probably regret posting it. . .

Maudlin-o-meter redlining!!!!

C'mon, badmouth me. I dare ya!

:)

Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:08:35 GMT, rw
wrote:


What's bear fense?


Oooops. Me dumb. Make that bear fence. It is an electric fence you
put up around your camping area to keep the brown bears away from you
and yours. Most guided expeditionary type trips in Alaska have such a
fence to protect you from the bears. I saw them in use on Moraine
Creek. The female guide leading the three pontoon rafts (and one
support raft) swears by them.

Oh. I thought you meant to write "bear defense." Good thing I asked.
Don't worry about us. We have it covered.

BTW, I've heard from a friend who's floated the Kanektok that the worst
bear problem, by far, is from the aggressive black bears at the lower
end of the river.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

JR wrote:
"Tim J." wrote:

I regret not telling the people I love how much I do, and telling
them more often. But, I regret having some not-nice conversations
with people no longer reading or posting here (you regulars can
BMIA) and I regret running off some newbies before I really knew who
they were. There's a lot more, but I'd probably regret posting it. .
.

Maudlin-o-meter redlining!!!!

C'mon, badmouth me. I dare ya!

Yeah, maudlin. . . so sue me.

You missed the part about the regulars. Consider yourself badmouthed.
:)
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

rw wrote:

Oh. I thought you meant to write "bear defense." Good thing I asked.
Don't worry about us. We have it covered.

BTW, I've heard from a friend who's floated the Kanektok that the worst
bear problem, by far, is from the aggressive black bears at the lower
end of the river.

I recall an earlier thread here on unguided Alaskan trips and thought it a
cool idea, the only reservation being the bear business.....

Did y'all decide on an outfit like this one:

http://www.alaskaraftingadventures.com/ ?

I will be VERY interested in reading the TR of this adventure..... The
kind of thing I'd like to do before I get too old.....

JR

JR wrote:

I recall an earlier thread here on unguided Alaskan trips and thought it a
cool idea, the only reservation being the bear business.....

You're far more likely to die in a bush plane crash. We'll have bear
spray and a firearm or two. No bear fence, though. The next to last
thing I want to do is to shoot a bear. You can guess what the last thing
I want to do is (and it's not apologize on ROFF).

Did y'all decide on an outfit like this one:

http://www.alaskaraftingadventures.com/ ?

I'll let Willi post the name of the outfitter. He's the one who's
dealing with them. So far, they seem very good and have good
recommendations, but time will tell. All they're really doing for us is
renting us the rafts and some miscellaneous other equipment, and
dropping us off and picking us up.

I will be VERY interested in reading the TR of this adventure..... The
kind of thing I'd like to do before I get too old.....

I don't know how old you are, JR, but I'm 58. I worked my ass off most
of my life, in places with no flyfishing to speak of, getting in maybe
one or two fishing trips a year if I was lucky, and too often no trips
in a year. I've wanted to go to Alaska for a long time, and I don't
expect this to be my last trip there.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

JR wrote:
rw wrote:

Oh. I thought you meant to write "bear defense." Good thing I asked.
Don't worry about us. We have it covered.

BTW, I've heard from a friend who's floated the Kanektok that the worst
bear problem, by far, is from the aggressive black bears at the lower
end of the river.


I recall an earlier thread here on unguided Alaskan trips and thought it a
cool idea, the only reservation being the bear business.....

Did y'all decide on an outfit like this one:

http://www.alaskaraftingadventures.com/ ?

Yes but we're using Papa Bear

http://www.pbadventures.com/location.html

He came highly recommended by a number of people.



I will be VERY interested in reading the TR of this adventure.....

When we get back.......




The
kind of thing I'd like to do before I get too old.....


That's been my frame of mind lately too. My father put off too much of
"his life" until he retired. Shortly after he retired, my mother became
very ill. Then when she got better, my father had his second bypass and
died shortly after. He never got to do many of the things he had always
talked about wanting to do and things which he planned on doing when he
retired. One of my mother's favorite topics is regretting not traveling
when she was younger and stronger.

I want to do a long canoe trip, a horse packing/backpacking trip, some
more salt stuff, and.....................

Willi

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:04:13 -0600, Willi wrote:

That's been my frame of mind lately too. My father put off too much of
"his life" until he retired. Shortly after he retired, my mother became
very ill. Then when she got better, my father had his second bypass and
died shortly after. He never got to do many of the things he had always
talked about wanting to do and things which he planned on doing when he
retired. One of my mother's favorite topics is regretting not traveling
when she was younger and stronger.

Good for you, Willi. That is what I've been doing for the past ten
years. So much to do and share, but so little time.

BTW, is this a joke or what?
http://www.fresh-h2o.com/html/kanekt...rFloaters.html

Willi wrote:

JR wrote:

I recall an earlier thread here on unguided Alaskan trips and thought
it a
cool idea, the only reservation being the bear business.....

Did y'all decide on an outfit like this one:

http://www.alaskaraftingadventures.com/ ?


Yes but we're using Papa Bear

http://www.pbadventures.com/location.html

He came highly recommended by a number of people.

I have some friends who used Pa Pa Bear last year, and they were very
happy with them. This year they're using them on a different river, and
I know of another group using them as well. I have a dvd of their float
trip last year. All I can say is WOW! I would suggest 2 backup rods. ;-)

brians