"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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"SimRacer" wrote in message
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Oh the humanity! LOL! More fishing stuff
will have to be purchased....

You say that like it's a bad thing! :~^)

LOL! Yes, I know. But you haven't seen my shop, and my "freshwater gear" and
my "inshore/sal****er gear" collections. And oh yeah, BTW, I'm married. So
she *does* keep track of all of it...but I do want to give fly fishing a
whirl. There is more and more of it happening for redfish and tarpon out on
our coast (and in our sounds) so it can at least carry over from those quiet
mountain streams into my love of the salty fish too. Granted, it'll take
different gear (for tarpon surely) but I am always trying to learn, and I
think fly fishing will be my next outdoor challenge, right there with
muzzleloader hunting for game, which I am also striking out on this
year...but for now, just think of me like John Ratzinberger (sp?), when he
did a piece on a fly rod maker on his "Made in America" TV show recently. I
imagine right now, I'd look and be as bad at the casting alone as he was in
that piece...much less actually learning how to figure out *where* in a
running water body to find fish.



Nice pix too BTW, thanks for sharing.

You are correct sir.

Mark --who works in Boone, NC, lives in Lenoir, NC and is formerly of
Raleigh, NC--

Hehe, I heard that. Lenoir is a cool place, my best friend in high school
had people out there so we went out that way and camped a fair bit during
our summer breaks. And I love Raleigh, will probably live here until they
plant me, but I got tired of renting a home or room for our frequent jaunts
to Boone/Bristol (NASCAR fan here) so we sold our "other" vacation place
(condo on Lake Norman) and got a quiet little lot near Valle Crucis and
Foscoe and put up a qauint little log home of our very own, right on the Wat
auga River. As a quasi-wannabe sportsman, living in Raleigh is the way to
go. 3-4 hours to the coast, 3-4 hours to the mountains? Couldn't get much
better IMO. Not on the East Coast anyway, but I am biased, so take it for
what it's worth. :-)