"Larry L" wrote in message
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great report snipped
I'm positive I'm going to be sore in places from fighting up that current
today, equally positive that all you young stud-ly types out in ROFFland
would have had no problems where I was today. I'm also fairly positive
that arthritis or not I can do better if I work at it and get back in
form. I won't pick spots quite so challenging the next few trips, but
the exercise will help with my fishing all summer.

I sure can't speak for all, but I am WAY slower and feebler wading,
especially in heavy current than I used to be, and need a bit of seasoning
to get up to any level
of competence anymore myself. Same issues, bum knee, bum ankles, etc. And,
as I aged, I remained 6 foot 7, and thus poorly designed, in terms of
center-of-balance, to take a shot of heavy current at knee-height. Such is
life, and the joys of fishing, that I can't wait to beat on my body in a
couple short weeks up at Penn's.
Tom