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Just be careful with your timing, tryjng not to go through bt 7:30 and 9:30 or 4:00 and 6:00, and that will be a major help. Other than that, just stay on i75 and follow your road signs. You’ll be fine. This woman driver drives it regularly and has never had any trouble.
I don’t take pics with fish I didn’t catch, if that answers your question Neal. Even little guys like this one.
Check out friend and fellow board member Paul Puckett’s art! He’s great! He painted a fish eye for me for Zach’s 30th that is amazing, and he’s doing these great super bright fish tails and really cool etchings, too! I think a grouping of the colored etchings would look really neat in any room (nursery included) and would be something your friend’s child would be able to take with him as he grows up and enjoy for the long run.
Lauren
http://www.paulpuckettart.com/
Hey Seth,
This might help: http://www.costadelmar.com/SeeOutThere/Technology/PureLensPerfection/index.cfm?
I love [s:18dvsxp0]Zach's[/s:18dvsxp0] my Costa Wingmans with the copper 580 glass lenses. 😉
I also have a pair of Costa’s Cheecas with gray glass 580 lenses, but I prefer the copper lenses in the Wingmans.
I wore a pair of Smiths for ages, but I don’t remember what they call the lens color – something like Costa’s copper, I suspect.
I’m curious about what you end up choosing. 🙂
Lauren
http://www.4029tv.com/r/25439919/detail.html
Hahahahahaha!
It’s the old Ford vs. Chevy argument after all.
Or like trying to convince a Phillies fan that their loyalty to the Phils is misplaced and that the only team with the grit and heart that deserves undying dedication is the Braves. Which is of course true. 😉
Really though, I think it’s pretty clear that we’re not all going to agree on the great bamboo v graphite debate, and I’m not sure what Jay was expecting to read when he started this thread (it seems like he wants to hear what everyone says but also wants to convince everyone that bamboo is awesome – a true fan if I’ve ever seen one 🙂 ), but here’s my two cents, based on nothing more than my personal experiences and observations.
I inherited a glass 8 weight that I love from my great-grandfather. I have fished bamboo a number of times. Still, the rod rack is full of graphite. I really am happy to own and to have fished both those glass and bamboo rods, but graphite is my go-to. The glass wore me out – so heavy – and the bamboo feels delicate. (I know that’s probably a problem with my perception of it rather than with the rod itself, but still.)
That said, I value having those rods because of what they represent, the stories that come with them. When I think of the glass rod, I imagine all the times my Gramp’s dad used it, the water and fish and days it saw, and the long line of fishing and love of tromping through the woods that happily made its way from my great-grandfather to my Gramp to my Dad to me. The bamboo rod is similar. It represents the labor of the rodmaker, the time, the care; when you spend so much time on something like that, you mark it indelibly. Of course, the time you spend on the water with your favorite graphite rods hopefully will result in stories of their own, but it’s not really the same thing.
Hmm. Maybe the Phillies/Braves analogy works better than I thought it did: typically flawless – though often soulless – execution by the team with the best chance to win in most situations (even against the Yanks in the WS) *OR* the team with heart and grit that, though they can’t always be counted on to dominate every situation, surprises and delights and yes, sometimes breaks.* 😉
*and sometimes breaks your heart too.
Lauren
P.S. All you Philly and Yankee fans out there don’t hold my analogies against me for good, okay? 😉
I think Zach has mentioned this before, but Mae is a great fishing companion.
She is great in a boat. She’s canoed the Hooch with us too many times to count, and we took her out on a canoe trip on the Buffalo in Arkansas the first weekend we had her.
