On Jan 8, 8:56*am, Fishin Technician Fishin.Technician.
wrote:
Any of you people out here remember when you were called or known as
"Super Wader' or something like that? I used to stuff cinder blocks in
my vest and waders just so I could wade a rocky stretch *that was up to
my neck( BS) *just my chest maybe.........Man, what I used to do without
a wading staff now, *I need an overhead crane to support me in the
shallows.......not really I think I can still keep up with the 30-40 yr
olds, ship I know that I can, in my mind, but my legs ..........jeez , I
do not think that they (my legs) are any longer part of my mind and
body.....when do we know that we are doing our final casting ballet? How
does your career in the passion of the sport which you thought that you
would never tire of feel now when you are getting tired in the
body.......I did not say mind............F/T:crap:

--
Fishin Technician


I feel your pain. I suffered some sort of nerve damage in my upper arm/
shoulder last June that resulted in near paralysis of my casting arm
and complete loss of dexterity in my fingers. The prognosis was for a
2-4 month recovery time, but as of today its creeping up on 6 months,
and although movement and strength has mostly returned to everything
but my little finger, there is not enough dexterity to control my cast
(or to control the line or reel if I cast left handed). And when I try
to thread a #16 fly, my arm and hand shake so much that I cannot hope
to get the tippet through.

After dealing with the angst of losing all last summers' fishing, I
find it unbearable to believe that I might lose much of this summers'
fishing also. And anything else that requires two hands.

Can't offer you any constructive advice other than to take up a new
hobby....like drinking excessively while playing with loaded guns, or
something.

--riverman
(or maybe not)