eltejano1
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I deleted this post to save Dick the trouble![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
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topflite51
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Gators and snakes? I think I will pass.![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin")
I'm a trout, steelhead and salmon man. Just starting to learn fly fishing again, it is a chore.
I don't know what I would do with diesel, my F53 would choke on it.
It sure does sound like a good area to visit, will have to keep in mind when DW finally retires.
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Eltejano, hey, Sam Rayburn used to be my favorite lake when I was still a Texan. Fantastic fishing for bass morning and dusk, and delicious crappy fishing midday. Ahhh! that was the life!
And what you said, "the bad guys have learned how to exploit our weaknesses and render ineffective our state-of-the-art weaponry. Just wear civvies and hide with the women and ya got it made." is certainly right. The problem is the same as Vietnam, you are supposedly fighting the baddies and supporting the civilians. There is no way to separate them. That is WHY a guerrilla force in their home territory with popular support is unbeatable.
I just keep hearing people complain about America's lack of can do and then about the great soldiers of WWII. Just got me all riled up. We are sending our kids there to do the impossible and the govt is not supporting them when they get home, sending them back over and over, and it is a travesty. Everyone knows the people won't stand still for a draft to an unpopular war, so we just keep sending these poor kids back until their ticket comes up. Disgusting. Well, next week we are back on the road and away from the news for a month or more. Ought to drop my blood presure considerably!
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eltejano1
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Topflite
Flycasting is not hard if you have good tackle. The line has to be balanced to the rod or it's impossible. Beginners buy cheap tackle as a "starter" outfit from places like Walmart and the line is almost always too light for the rod and simply uncastable. The guy gets discouraged and quits. Go to a flyfishing specialty shop, like Orvis. My advice - go one line weight heavier than the rod designation and use only a "weight-forward" line while you're learning. The rod and reel aren't all that important - it's all in the line. Don't scrimp on that. A good caster can make crisp, tight-looped casts with a broomstick if he has the right line.
Find a nice lawn somewhere to practice - grass won't hurt the line. If I take you fishing on my lake, I don't want a #2 popping bug driven past the barb into the back of my head!
If you think fuel is expensive, wait 'til you visit the Orvis shop! We all have our priorities. I'm too cheap to buy fuel to take my wife to Florida, but I'll drop a grand at the Orvis shop without thinking twice. Nobody's perfect.
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Onrecess:
There was concern about a guerilla war during the occupation of Japan - one reason Macarthur didn't want to execute Hirohito as a war criminal. Turned out that the Japanese accepted their defeat, but suppose that such an insurgency had developed. How do you think we would have handled it? I'll tell you how - they would have fire-bombed what was left of Tokyo and continued bombing the civilian population until the people themselves killed or turned-in the troublemakers. The Japanese knew, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that opposition was futile and would only result in the utter annihilation of their homeland.
You're right - you can't support civilians and fight their guerilla gangs at the same time. If a civilian population tolerates leaders like Hitler, Saadam or Bin Laden, they have to take responsibility for that and suffer the consequences that go with it. The people that support terrorists are just as guilty as the terrorists themselves and neighborhoods that hide these guys should be burned to the ground. But instead, we choose to let our own boys get killed from primitive roadside bombs.
If we are too squeamish to fight a war to win, we might as well abolish our military and become a pacifist country like Sweden. Imagine - a multi-trillion dollar defense establishment and we're defeated by a handful of thugs making crude bombs in their basement. But I shouldn't be surprised - we were also defeated by motley crews of starving, half-naked teenagers crawling around the jungles of SE Asia with antiquated Russian machine guns!!! What a waste of money! What a waste of American lives! We had the air power to win that Viet Nam
war in two weeks - with very little loss of American lives. And the russians and the chinese wouldn't have done a damn thing about it because they would have gotten the same medicine.
Nixon should have taken his own advice - "if you can't stand the heat, get outta the kitchen."
Jack
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Someone mentioned "Mass Transportation".
We used to have it before the "Mass Automobile Explosion", now we don't.
Trolleys were neat. You could hop on 12 miles outside of Philly, get off at 69th street and shop, go to the dentist or see Santa in December and slide down the big slide on top of the hill. But that was the "Old Days" when people didn't have it easy like today.
MAss Transit is out of the question in America because it is so big and people live so spread out. You have to drive to a station, park your car, ride the train to the place of work and when you get there 'You don't have a car to go the rest of the way'. WALKIES.
We laugh at Europeans and their silly little cars, old cities and their old ways of getting around on buses, while WE live in absolute luxury with our Salon Style cars and all the benefits that go along with this "Great Society".
Looks like the Piper is calling in the paper. We will continue to be "The Waste Makers" right up to the bitter end, because we "are entitled" to the best.
As my wife says, "we can afford it". Shes the one that always used the
"Full Service Island" so a person would fill the tank for her and check the oil and water. "She could afford it". Now there are no "Service Stations", just a bunch of over price grocery outlets with pumps out front.
Now they even have "Do it yourself check-out in stores where "YOU" perform the labor, put one checker out of work and "YOU STILL PAY THE SAME PRICES". DUH?
Don't blame big business for being smarter then we are. They just found a way the Shear the Sheeple easier. Ain't this a hoot?
Ok, in Oregon it is against the law to pump your own.
We want the best of everything, but at what price?
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donee
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What really irritates me is having to pay almost $5 a gallon just to keep my yards looking nice.![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/mad.gif "mad")
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topflite51
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eltejano1 wrote:Topflite
Flycasting is not hard if you have good tackle. The line has to be balanced to the rod or it's impossible. Beginners buy cheap tackle as a "starter" outfit from places like Walmart and the line is almost always too light for the rod and simply uncastable. The guy gets discouraged and quits. Go to a flyfishing specialty shop, like Orvis. My advice - go one line weight heavier than the rod designation and use only a "weight-forward" line while you're learning. The rod and reel aren't all that important - it's all in the line. Don't scrimp on that. A good caster can make crisp, tight-looped casts with a broomstick if he has the right line.
Find a nice lawn somewhere to practice - grass won't hurt the line. If I take you fishing on my lake, I don't want a #2 popping bug driven past the barb into the back of my head!
If you think fuel is expensive, wait 'til you visit the Orvis shop! We all have our priorities. I'm too cheap to buy fuel to take my wife to Florida, but I'll drop a grand at the Orvis shop without thinking twice. Nobody's perfect.
Jack It is not an equipment problem.
The problem lies with the operator. No need to worry about the back of your head, it's mine that I'm worried about.
If my wife wants to go to Florida, I'll buy her a ticket. Never too cheap to send her anywhere she wants to go.
There used to be a shop here, it closed. Now the closest is 40 miles away and it is not much. Also, not very friendly. I have been told there are good fly shops in Idaho. I will find out while I am on vacation. I will be at their mercy, probably will buy everything they say works on their rivers and lakes. Fuel, minor expense this trip.
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donee wrote:What really irritates me is having to pay almost $5 a gallon just to keep my yards looking nice. The cost of the lawnmower, edger, weed eater, fertilizers and other chemicals, water and your labor far exceed the fuel usage cost. Install rocks, after installation only minor maintenance required. It is so much cheaper in the long run. Priceless.![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/doh.gif "doh")
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eltejano1 wrote:Flycasting is not hard if you have good tackle.
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It's obviously been way to long since you learned. I had some of the best equipment (borrowed, couldn't afford it just to try it out). I watched a training video AND took a lesson. The only thing I could do well was roll cast. I was king of roll casting. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/awink.gif "awink") However, I did learn to cast enough to fish the ponds we were going to (small). And there is nothing like catching 10+ lb trout (genetically engineered to be huge) on a fly rod.
You've just gotten so good at it that it is second nature.
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