hate to see the CO board so slow - figured with the low flows this part of the forum would be loaded. surprised to see my post from last year is still on the first page. don't know if anyone reads here anymore - but my wife and i are headed off to breck for a "babymoon" on the 21st. The gu...

No worries Ray, I don't take any personal offense. I really don't have anything to do with marketing, although I agree that the consumer tips digest is not a great way to run ads. My mother in-law actually sent me a link much like that one a couple of weeks ago. Embarrassing to have to explain that ...

Ray, Totally understand where you are coming from... However, this auction model is not as terrible as you make it sound. Your equation leaves out a important piece... the "buy it now." Any auction participant can apply the bids he/she placed in the auction towards the value price and pay ...

If you're looking for a deal on a WP camera, I've got your site ;) Started working for a buddy of mine on a start-up back in Oct, it's getting big pretty quick. It's not for everyone, but it's an auction model that's really picking up steam... Here's some we're running tomorrow: http://www.quibids.c...

Ouch!!!! Try dunking your finger in the water for a while before pulling it out (or pushing it through!!) next time... it'll get numb in no time and then less pain Impressive you had enough presence of mind to snap a pic... always forget until I get the dang hook out!

I was browsing through the mags in the airport last week and saw your piece... great read! Had to point the story out and brag that "the author posts on a message board I read", my fiance and her fam were impressed haha. They read and enjoyed the story too. Can imagine the adrenaline rush,...

man... great looking rod, nice work jon

Rob, You can also do what I do on some of my flylines without the welded loop; tie a nailknot from the flyline to a 6-8 inch section of thick mono or even your old leader like you normally do. On the other end, just tie a double surgeon knot to get the looped leader. Loop to loop connection again. ...

Never too late for some birthday wishes (I hope!)... stinks you were under the weather on your birthday... Glad you're feelin better, happy bday

agreed

Nice shots... and thanks for the info. Didn't even realize there were multiple species of shad, never thought much about 'em before. Did a little more google research and I'm guessing the one I caught was a gizzard shad and not one of the American shad. Evidently they are filter feeders, but the one...

I was fishing a golf course pond over the weekend and caught my first shad... http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3D_-fQglY8I/SszoXXooLzI/AAAAAAAADGU/W5NRNrga7v4/s400/PA030968.JPG I had seen a monster dead shad floating around in the pond a couple months earlier, but figured it was a fluke and had never really co...

crazy... do people actually fish reels like that? or just look at 'em?

I'm a fan of wildland firefighting books... looking forward to see what comes out of this one. Crazy fire, tons of content.

**edit: don't want it to seem like I am making light of the situation, wildland firefighting is just fascinating stuff

Don't know if you have run into these pictures of the fire yet, but pretty wild stuff.