"SimRacer" wrote in message
om...

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.

That's no excuse! A "reel man" can sock away enough ill-gotten gains to
fund an entire new hobby every other year. It's always the same excuse with
you married types: I gotta keep SWMBO happy, I gotta feed the kids and
fund their future college needs, I can't take time-off to buy more fishin'
gear,as it interfers with the time I have to spend with my family etc.,
etc., etc.... Priorities! It's all about PRIORITIES, young man!

As a *lonely* and finacially challenged single man, I have but one thing to
say to you: Nana, nana, nana!

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.

I've not seen Ratzaenberger's show, only an advert for it. However, I
thought it looked like it would be pretty good.

From experience, I can tell ya that the fish are in that "running body of
water" and not where I spend most of my time, in the tree branches!




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.

I love Lenoir! I grew up in Raleigh and only left in 1992, after injuring
my back. It was the best move I ever made.

And I love Raleigh, will probably live here until they
plant me,

Give me a holler, the next time you plan t head up this away and I will be
more than happy to guide you through the maze of rhodos on my favorite
streams--wild trout waters, not those stocked waters of the Watauga.

E-mail me and I will give ya my cell phone number.

Mark