cerevisiaephilus wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:09 am

Thanks for the help, guys. Was a great trip. Able is great and Drakian hospitality is really something special.

I love that this joint still works.

Yard, perhaps we should schedule a meeting there. Caught my very first swinging a fly at the Deadline, in 1986, I believe. Got three more the next day and spent the rest of the week without a pull thus getting my daily average down to a much more appropriate level. Things have not been the same sin...

..... Green as green gets. I had no idea what incredible adventure, challenge, and mystic the Alaskan Bush had in store for me over the next decade + years of guiding. ..... Holy avatardation! After ten years in the bush, are you starting to look more like the avatar or still similar to my wee gran...

I spent two weeks in that park for a residency summer before last. I'm still waiting for it to settle in my head, as it's too overwhelming to just start knocking out paintings that I care about. Just amazing. Though as you said, amazingly crowded. Seeing it with snow had to be great.

Glad you all are safe.

Isn't there a Like button on here by now?

yard4sale wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:33 pm

SLSS wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:55 pm

yard4sale wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:21 pm

... apparently forgot to tie proper blood knots...

Chapstick is your friend....

Actually I think it failed because of the chapstick. Good on the bigger sections, not so good for the 15-12#. I’ll use spit for that one....

Fail when not seated fully.

yard4sale wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:21 pm

... apparently forgot to tie proper blood knots...

Chapstick is your friend....

Sweet.

Nicely done, Yard and Root. Looks like about a years steelfish packed into a week.

root wad wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:26 pm

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That little co-pilot looks pretty comfy. Cheers, Bill.