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Google tells me the flyshop in New Orleans is Uptown Angler. Can’t hurt to give them a call.
The next set of out-of-state depositions I will need are from a few corporate reps of Darden Restaurants, which owns Longhorn Steakhouse. They are based out of Orlando. Defense counsel left me a voicemail raising the possibility of flying the corporate reps to Nashville for depositions instead of us flying down there, but I’m thinking I really need to find a reason to turn that offer down.
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Simple, if a customer looks like a fisherman they buy hackles at regular price. If they look like a hairdresser they pay a premium.
This would be discriminatory and unfair to the guys who worry about cleaning their cork grips and boots and ironing their fishing shirts, because they will wind up paying the higher price.
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See, my experiences run from the opposite end of the spectrum. Some time late last summer, I went on a trip with one of my Coleman coolers in my Gheenoe. I put ice, food, and cokes in it, floated for a day, drove home, and set it in my garage.
Yesterday, I was looking for something and opened the cooler for some reason. HOOOOOOOIIIIIIIEEEE!!!! Oops, I forgot to take those sandwiches out of the cooler, and I hadn’t used that particular cooler since.
It’s one thing to do that to a $30 Coleman. I don’t think it would be right to do it to a $300 Yeti.
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Interesting! I met with a new client a couple weeks ago that had hackle feathers tied in her hair. I had never seen such a thing before. It looked like she had a clouser half and half hidden in her hair.
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I’d like to fill a $325.00 Yeti and a $75.00 Coleman 5-day cooler* with ice and set them in the hot sun side-by-side, and see how much longer the ice really lasts in the Yeti.
Then when I ripped both legs out trying to put the bottoms on, my perceptions were affirmed. ;D ;D
Maybe it’s time to cut back on the buffet restaurants. 🙂
I’ve got a Frog Toggs jacket rolled up in my dry bag. I’ve never put the bottoms on – when I’m trout fishing I usually have a pair of waders somewhere close by, and a rain jacket plus a pair of waders keeps me plenty dry.
I had to do this with one of my rods back in the summer, though I used a cube of ice out of the cooler.
Also the rod does a fantastic job of protecting light tippet.
Nice fish! I’m not sure I understand the need for light tippet with carp though. I’ve never found them to be very tippet shy.
Well that might explain why the spawns are at least mildly successful on the White and not at all on the Cumberland or Caney.
(Yeah, I know some folks say the browns spawn on the Cumberland and Caney too, and someone will probably be along in a minute to argue the point, but nobody’s been able to show me a photo of a brown below the fingerling stocker size from either river yet).
Both the Caney and Cumberland tend to have at least an hour or two of generation every day even in the fall spawn months. I suspect the strong generation current and sudden rise of 5-6 ft in water over the redds has a lot to do with it.
I wonder how the money saved by natural brown trout reproduction (vs hatching and stocking browns) would stack up against the money lost by running minimum flow instead of a couple hours of generation from, say, October 31 to December 31.
Realistically, that’s never going to happen, but it’s an interesting thing to ponder.
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Hey Zach, how much does the depth of the water fluctuate on the spawning gravel when they generate at the White River?
This part was interesting to me:
In the Fraser, an estimated 34.5 million sockeye surged their way to the place of their birth in order to spawn, a level not seen since 1913. Fishermen, frustrated by three paltry seasons, were given the green light, and more than 10 million sockeye were caught before the Canadian government halted further fishing.
The commercial fishermen harvested nearly a third of the salmon that were estimated to return to the river – and the fishermen were mad when the season got cut off at that point!!! They probably took more salmon in one season than had returned to the river altogether for the last three years combined!
Yup, I had a doofus at a boat ramp lean on my gunwale and break one of my push pole holders, and Pugar at Custom Gheenoe sent me a free replacement.
I don’t buy your argument at all. It is perfectly possible to fish heavy streamers and beadheads for years without breaking a rod.
Incidentally, saying it’s “perfectly possible” and saying there is no significant risk are two entirely different things.
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They are only asking you to pay their costs to repair the rod, which is very reasonable.
Assuming their costs to repair the rod are reasonable, then I’ll agree.
I think the “cracking the hull” problem would be most likely to happen if you started to put the Gheenoe/Riverhawk on the top of your car and accidentally let it slide off and hit the ground.
I’m gonna ask on the Custom Gheenoe site about cartopping the NMZ models and see if anyone has any insight.
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I have fished a lot out of both canoes and Gheenoes, and I can tell you a Gheenoe or Riverhawk’s stability is 1000 times superior to a traditional square stern canoe.
I personally believe the added investment for a Gheenoe or Riverhawk plus a couple hundred bucks for a trailer is well worth the added stability it buys, especially if you fish with another person.
The only time I use a canoe now is for fishing small creeks where I have to portage or drag. That’s the only place where a canoe beats a Gheenoe – they are easier to carry and they don’t get beat up as much if you have to drag them across a rock.
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