On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:56:32 -0700 (PDT), DaveS wrote:

On Aug 5, 8:57*am, wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:12:47 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote:
On Aug 5, 8:16*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:49:11 GMT, chas wrote:
I guess I needed to do something really stupid to get myself to start posting
again. *Last Saturday, July 31, I set my rod down next to the car at the trail
head for the South Fork of the Hoh river. *It's a Loomis rod with a Ross reel,
my favorite medium duty rod and reel. *If hear of it being found, let me know. *
I'll reserve the rest of the details for anyone who has the rod.

I sympathize, sorta, but I have to ask - why would the person who _lost_ the
item need to withhold identifying info? *

Seems to me that if you have the rod, he gave enough info to identify
it. And if you don't, then any more info is useless.

Er, well, normally, it's someone who _finds_ something that "reserves...details"
so as to weed out false claimants...IAC, it struck me funny...the whole idea of
someone finding a Loomis with a Ross at that location, and Chas and the finder
each grilling each other to make absolutely sure it was the SAME Loomis, etc.,
etc...OTOH, I must confess, I don't think I've ever been to where Chas left his
rod, so perhaps there are regularly multiple Loomis' with Ross' littering the
ground there...

But if it didn't strike you similarly, hey, that's why there's chocolate and
vanilla...

HTH,
R

I think he was just posting the essentials in the interests of . . .
er keeping it short. Not everybody is as verbose as you or I.

Dave

WTF...? What more than "the essentials" are needed in a case like this? Again,
I'm pretty sure that I've never been to the location in question, so perhaps one
does need Simms' G45 LoomisGuard waders to wallow though this chin-deep stretch
of lost Loomii without drowning in graphite...but I don't think so...

....and hey, Chas - just put yer goldurned name and number on yer ****ing rods,
so the next time you lose one, some poor schmuck sorting through that veritable
mountain of lost rods will at least have an easy time with yours...

I don't how to explain it, but I just have a vision of Harold and Kumar finding
Ashton Kutcher's brain, just sorta lying on the gravel, and trying to return it
to him on their way to White Castle...

Whoa, dude - where's your rod,
R