Fisherman dies in Junction Pool

Scott Seidman wrote:

... I looked at
a wading staff as a c-note well spent on personal safety. ...

A hundred bucks for a wading staff ?!!? That sounds
excessive for a wading staff unless it comes with
built-in radar, wet bar, liquor cabinet and humidor. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:nz0hg.16563
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Scott Seidman wrote:

... I looked at
a wading staff as a c-note well spent on personal safety. ...

A hundred bucks for a wading staff ?!!? That sounds
excessive for a wading staff unless it comes with
built-in radar, wet bar, liquor cabinet and humidor. ;-)


You misunderstand, Ken. That wading staff is a staff of four guys who
stand around me making sure I don't fall!! The hundred bucks is really a
hundred bucks an hour!

Actually, that hundred bucks (or close to it anyway) was for the thicker
Folstaff. I like having a collapsible staff that I don't have to worry
about toting along or tripping over. It deploys rapidly when I need it.
There is some tendency for the segments to get a little "stuck" when you
want to collapse it, as the tolerance on the fit is pretty tight, but
once you learn the trick of rolling the stuck joint on your knee, the
problem becomes less of a problem. The important thing is that the
three-cushion ****-around happens when you're already out of trouble, and
the thing deploys real fast when you need it.

Simms makes a nice one now, but deployment seems a tad less automatic
than the Folstaff, and it didn't exist when I bought mine. If I were
buying one today, I would do a serious A-B comparison before buying
either.

I've taken one good bath with the Folstaff on hand, at Penn's, but I'm
pretty sure it's saved me from three or four more--and probably a dozen
or more if you count those wading situations that I should have avoided
in the first place. The real trick is being sure not to use the staff to
wade yourself INTO trouble.

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Scott
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Scott Seidman wrote in
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You misunderstand, Ken. That wading staff is a staff of four guys who
stand around me making sure I don't fall!! The hundred bucks is
really a hundred bucks an hour!


By the way-- one of the only pictures I can recall of me with a trout was
taken this trip, http://www.mindspring.com/~scottseidman/willow2.jpg

That's on the Willowemoc, about 200 yards above the iron bridge at rt 17 in
downtown Roscoe, not far from the Dette place. Not a bad fish for the 3wt
Sage SP I was using. Things would have been easier with the 5-wt T&T I
used for subsequent outings that trip.

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Scott
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Scott Seidman wrote:

Simms makes a nice one now, but deployment seems a tad less automatic
than the Folstaff, and it didn't exist when I bought mine. If I were
buying one today, I would do a serious A-B comparison before buying
either.

I really like my Simms wading staff. I think it has a more robust design
that the Folstaff.

BTW, this afternoon I tagged along on a training raft trip down the
Salmon River, which flows through Stanley. The water is super high --
higher than the guides have ever seen it. Two class IV rapids and three
class IIIs. It was a blast and for the fist time I didn't fall out.

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"rw" wrote in message
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Scott Seidman wrote:

Simms makes a nice one now, but deployment seems a tad less automatic
than the Folstaff, and it didn't exist when I bought mine. If I were
buying one today, I would do a serious A-B comparison before buying
either.

I really like my Simms wading staff. I think it has a more robust design
that the Folstaff.

BTW, this afternoon I tagged along on a training raft trip down the Salmon
River, which flows through Stanley. The water is super high --
higher than the guides have ever seen it. Two class IV rapids and three
class IIIs. It was a blast and for the fist time I didn't fall out.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I also have the Simms wading staff, rubber handle, easy to deploy and
retract, shock cord, compact, neoprene holster.
-tom