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Ahhh, I should have said hello.

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Bean waders are really good.

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Hey Matt, were you at the Bean Expo this past weekend?

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Seems like this thread has a lot of Freudian slippage going on.

“Crap Patterns”?
😉

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I love the one of the fish charging away with the fly! 🙂

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On that same note, I will not allow myself the arrogance of thinking that I am better than anyone else as it is only my last image that I must compete against.

I know a guy who is a professional musician.

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Let’s see:

I went 7, 5, 6, 4, 7, 6, 5, 4, 10.

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Not sure about the file sizes on that one.

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Anyone got an alcohol lamp like bamboo builders use to straighten sets?

Zach

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

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That is too damn funny! ;D

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I’m getting a new pair tomorrow – LL Bean lightweights with Aquastealth.  We’ll see how they work both on the Clinch and in the salty stuff next week.

The new West Branch’s look pretty solid too.

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Philip,

So that is what green plants and running water look like!

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Absolutely!  Although, if you look at Foraker in the first picture, anyone up there wasn’t having such a good time!

We barely made it out of there three weeks after that picture was taken.  We spent 8 hours trampling down a runway with snowshoes so the Dehavilland could land.

Our ride in and out

The weather eventually got to us.

Climbing a ridge on Mount Francis, when there was a break in the weather.

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Careful!

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Nice to get out in the winter! 🙂

Must seem deathly quiet out there!

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Patrick, those mugs are really cool.

Yuhina, I subscribed to your RSS feeds just so I could get a look at your stuff when you posted it.

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Not to take away from the writing, but those are some of the hardest looking dudes I have seen in a while.

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I saw it too, but I was refreshing a bunch of tabs at once and wasn’t sure where it came from.

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Since he[Lefty] makes a lot of money by licensing out his name to the TFO brand, I wonder how he reconciles the issue.  

Not trying to be a stickler but no one in the fly fishing business makes a lot of money.  

I am sure the Becks, Lefty, and the other Pros arent paying the big bucks that your regular joe shmoe is for a memebership at the SRC.  In fact, I would bet the pay nothing.  Donnie B is just using them as pawns to try to convince us that what he is doing is not wrong.  DB is the enemy here, not Lefty or the other pros.

Using them or not, DB is using their name and images with permission.  We are all stewards of the sport and trying to make a living or not they should be watching what is associated with their name.  In my opinion what DB is doing is bad for the sport and supporting his efforts with endorsements should be questioned.

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One of my favorite examples of this is Dispatches, by Michael Herr, for my money the best book about Viet Nam and the best nonfiction book ever, from a stylistic perspective.

Have you read The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien?  Another great book about Vietnam.

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