"Tim J." wrote in message
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It's been a while since we've declared ourselves here, and I thought it
might be
interesting to some of the relatively new people in the group. I know it
was fun
for me when folks did this shortly after I started reading the group.

Hi All,

For the most part I lurk, however chime in on occasion. My first post to the
NG was back in March of '96, I stopped in from time to time and have been a
regular reader for the past couple years.

I was born in Spokane, WA. in 1966 and have lived around the area for most
of my life. 5 years ago my wife and 12 year old son moved 40 miles north to
Diamond Lake. Other than fly fishing, I have a passion for water sports
(mainly slalom course skiing and hydrofoiling) as does my family.

For nearly 20 years, I have worked for what was once the largest Keyboard
manufacturer in the world. Over the last 3 years the company has diversified
into a contract manufacturing company building most anything that can be
injected molded, our largest press being 3000 ton. One product we
manufacture that you might be aware of is the Clorox mop. Crazy going from
high tech to low tech, but it pays the bills. I have been the Network Admin
for a number of years and was the telecom tech before that. We have
facilities in Spokane, Texas, Las Cruces, Mexico, China and Ireland.

My father introduced me to flyfishing at a very early age and that grew into
fly tying as well. I drifted away from it for a period of time with school,
family, etc... however have been playing at it pretty hard for the last 15 +
years. For the most part I fish Idaho and Montana waters, Kelly Creek being
one of my favorite getaways.

I had hopes of meeting some of the ROFF folks last summer on Rock Creek,
however my group decided to move over onto the Bitterroot before everyone
arrived. Unfortunately I wasn't driving my own rig on this trip or I would
have drove back over to say hello. I don't know if it I will get to a clave
this year, but hopefully in the future. It's always nice to put a face with
a name and a hand shake.

To me ROFF has been fun, gaining new and different ideas with allot of
laughs along the way. A couple weeks ago I showed my wife the group, she
said "it looks like a soap opera to me". She did say after reading a few
threads that she could see how it could be infectious and inquired the other
day as to "what was going on with that flyfishing thing you read".
I responded, "it's kind of a political group at this time"

As many would agree, due to work, family, life, etc... I don't get out on
the water as much as I would like, however I truly cherish every moment I do
get streamside with my fishing buddies, wife and son...

Hope to meet up with some of you rotten ol' buggers someday,
Jeff T.
P.S. Anyone know if the Clearwater near Orofino is still fishing and or the
South Fork? I am trying to get away the end of the week for a little steelie
action?!
PSS. Great idea Tim!