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Look what I found! I think someone forgot to lock the asylum door again.

Neil, I don't think what they are lamenting was anything you or anyone else could have avoided. No one has spent the hours that Jim Birkholm did keeping this site going since his death. That is not...

1458 seems to be a model number of early Horrocks Ibbetson glass rods. If there is a line size (It may be too old for that) it will be three letters i.e. hgh etc.

There appears to be very little hook clearance on the gutless frogs. Is that an illusion from the camera angle or does the foam compress to allow hook-up?

Mike p.m. me your address. I can send you some pheasant rump.

I like that. It has a much sparser head and hackle than I usually have where the body is mostly obscured by the pheasant rump which I think is closer to the original which was meant to be a hopper...

Tying quill segment wings isn't all that hard. It's just another technique to learn. The biggest thing I had to learn about it was that only about a third to a half of the quill is really suitable...

Happy birthday! I hope things are looking up for you.

thanks guys.

thanks guys.

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This is tied with a bendback and a weedguard to be cast up into the weedbed and retrieved. That's how most bass are caught on plastic worms on a small spring fed lake behind my brother's...

Betty, I suspect that the aging interface here no longer meets the latest standards for internet security. That might mean no more pictures of grandchildren or other material that could be abused by...

Thanks everyone. I found that the wood was delaminating on the butt section. At that point I gave the rod to someone I know enjoys working on them. I don't and would probably keep putting it off...

I don't think I'll ever identify the rod in the post above this one. It has no label and the signature wraps are gone along with much of the other thread. It casts a six weight sylk line...

I was given two old rods today. One had a broken tip and wasn't all there. This three piece rod is all (all guides and tip) there but not really fishable as is. There is no visible label but the...

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I can't see any label. It needs a lot of work and I'm not sure what I'll have at the end.

Bears are omnivorous creatures and opportunistic feeders. If they find a dead body they don't care if it is a deer, another bear or a human. I think that the odds are better than even this person...

I tie the collar separately and then but the head against the butts from it. I like to ideally have about one third of the head/body to be head. My biggest smallmouth to date came on one with a...

A very nice looking fly as usual though I personally believe the head should be about a third of the total length of the hook shank. That is based on the dimensions of real sculpins and may not...

I'm sure a lot of them are bots. I can't think of any other reason to be looking at notices of full inboxes from years ago among other things they were looking at a few minutes ago.

another one today. kethutinh9xx68 sent me a p.m. that's mostly gibberish though the word baccarat appeared a couple of times so it might be about online gaming

belated happy birthday You look goog for another 76 years.

I have become a more careful wader as I get older. For years swimming was just an inconvenience, mostly because my gear would all get wet. Even today I'd be more concerned about the water...

I tie a matuka streamer on a homemade bendback hook. A weighted matuka sculpin that doesn't hang up on the bottom is a particular favorite.

One of my favorite variatons on the basic bread recipe is to cover the top of the loaf with shredded cheese before baking. Home made cheese bread doesn't last long.