Chas Wade wrote in news:dQbbb.115190$mp.58539
@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net:

Scott Seidman wrote:
Chas,

I really should say absolutely nothing here, cause your boy was at
risk,
and it couldn't have been a very pleasant situation, but was your son
wearing eye protection??

It's a good enough point that I can't take offense at it. This was
about 20 years ago, and people hadn't gotten into the radical defend
the kids from everything mode yet.


When I teach in the courses, I gear up, and I ask the audience to call
out
the most important piece of gear I'm wearing. I make sure they all
understand that it's my glasses or sunglasses, and why. Next, I take
my
whistle out of my wader pocket. Then my wading staff.

I'm with you on the glasses, but I put a hat next, and don't bother
with either the whistle or the wading staff. I can yell as loud as a
whistle, and I'd just trip over the staff. I call the hat my "casting
helmet". A full brim, not a baseball cap.


Of course, your son could have caught a hook anywhere on his body, and
you
would have had a similar problem, but not as nervewracking. Hell, for
all
I know, your boy could have had a freak accident at the tying vise.

This part, though true, is irrelevant.

Chas
http://home.comcast.net/~chas.wade/w...ome.html-.html



Chas-

Tremendously happy that you took this in the spirit with which it was
intended.

Fully agree on the staff, BTW. I use a folding one, just so I always
have it and might not trip over it. I also try to use it exclusively for
wading myself out of trouble, but the temptation is always there to wade
myself into trouble. Also, a staff is really no substitute for an
attentive wading buddy.

The whistle, though, I really push. You can yell as loudly as a whistle
can, FOR AWHILE, assuming you're not injured. For a three buck
investment and a tiny space in my vest, I'll keep carrying the whistle.

What's your son doing these days, BTW??

Scott