"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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You all got room for one more?

Eh? A traveling fly shop? Hm........yeah, I suppose we could work
something out.

I'm considering taking the trip.
General dates, meeting location..

The only firm items currently on the itinerary are meeting Jeff at the
airport in Marquette at 2:07 p.m. on Friday, September 8 (John and I will
both be there), and returning him thither sometime on Saturday, the 16th.

Personally, I have no strong preferences concerning where to fish. John,
Jeff, Wayne and Bill have all expressed a desire to fish the Fox and the Two
Hearted. The Two Hearted is roughly a hundred miles to the east of
Marquette. John also wants to go back to the Sturgeon (which we fished
together last year), and Bill and I are most familiar with waters from there
on to the west. He and I both have access to relatively comfortable
accommodations in the Bruce Crossing to Kenton area. All of this is about
eighty miles to the west of Marquette. Bill and George (whose preferences
are as yet unknown) both plan to arrive around mid-week.

What all of this boils down to is a number of potential logistical problems
with regard to scheduling times and places for meeting. While the distances
involved are not overwhelming, I understand that some of the participants
have a limited amount of time available and would like to hit the water as
soon as possible. To complicate matters, cell phone coverage is spotty in
the U.P. It is reliable only in towns.....which is exactly where we will
NOT be most of the time. The only way to assure that we'll be able to meet
later arrivals is to make firm plans in advance.....changes MAY be possible,
depending on who can get in touch with whom by phone, but there is a real
risk that we'll be out of contact.

The best we can do is for anyone planning to attend to let me know as far in
advance as possible when they intend to arrive and where would be convenient
to meet. I'll do my best to accommodate based on how well conflicting
schedules can be overlapped.

I hope you can make it.

Wolfgang