lawrence underwood
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Looks good, Peter. The Cahaba is a beautiful river.
Craig is right on about guiding. It is people skills first and foremost, especially when you are guiding someone who wants to ‘impress’ you. I never did understand that. If one is as good as the guide, why hire him?
A tip from a guy that has trained a lot of dogs: Simple, clear, preferably one syllable names are highly desired for a working dog. When I was training retrievers for people I would strongly encourage them to either name them that way, or if for some sentimental or other semi-practical reason they had one of that gosh-awful long, multi-syllabic pedigree names – that are really only useful in the tracking and bragging rights of dogs, then come up with a nick-name and stick with it. (How’s that for a terrible sentence?)
Fly fishing oriented names that popped to mind:
Ausable (Aussie) I know it violates my advice, but it would work.
Lee
Wulff
Ted
Thumper (Ted William’s nick-name)
Swing
Dropper (Drop. Sorry I find it an hilarious name for a Lab.)
Creel
Felt (In memory of a fading awesome sole.)
Strike
Lefty (Do I have to explain that one? 🙂 )My mind is running with a bunch more, but I’d better quit.
Enjoy the pup!
Yep, good old presbyopia, usually hits most of us between 40 and 45. If you are like me your near vision will become progressively worse until you can’t read your truck dashboard well. Mine continued until my distance vision was beyond infinity so I now require bifocals all the time. Put the glasses off as long as practical but wearing them supposedly doesn’t make your eyes fail faster. Use the hat brim ones for now. I recently ordered some new Costas with progressive lenses but found that modern sunglasses with a lot of base curve distort somewhat with strong prescriptions, aviator types with flatter lenses actually work better for me. When you need reading glasses you may find like I did that taking them on and off constantly gets aggravating so just get the bifocals at that point.
It probably doesn’t help the fact that during my education I probably read the word count of the average city library.
Flip is a cool dude. I met him a couple times at shows and such, and had a great chat about keys Tarpon, we’ve fished with the same guys a few times. Obviously there is money involved, so hey, Flip needs a job too!
I cast a few TFOs and some of them are very nice rods. They need to sell them with rod tubes though.
I have two TFO rods.
