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Actually no. This is honestly a first try at working on rods and since I grew up using glass, thought I’d give them a try. But you are welcome to your opinions – ask Zach, I’m above board –

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Here is another foam diver/wiggler that you can tie as either a shrimp (pink, tan, brown, etc . . .) for salt or as a crawfish (brown, red, green, etc . . . ) for fresh – it’s half Tullis Wiggle Bug and half Popovic’s Ultra Shrimp.

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We just took our first guided trip together –

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Dan’s board address – I hope you don’t mind Zach since you are a sometime poster on the site – is http://www.danblanton.com/bulletin.php –

You should try fly fishing for bass, it can be some of the most exciting fly fishing out there – when that monster comes up from the deep and engulfs your bug or popper, you nearly wet your pants – you know it can happen, but man your heart starts pumping every time –

I see that TFO also has a new line of rods coming out, I’m trying to get my hands on one – they are the Axiom series –

It’s all about leaking the info before the show in Denver –

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Been there – I was trying to teach my son how to cast with my glass eagle claw that I had learned on (and had gotten from my grandfather) – I watched in horror as he got it hung up in the fence and broke the tip off – and that’s been years – I still miss catching bream with that little rod –

Mark

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Anybody seen the new online version of Wild On The Fly?

Being sorta in the business (online editor for Fish and Fly) I’ve been watching the evolution of the e-zine and am certain that the Wild On The Fly online version will be a cross between This is Fly and static online magazines –

I may actually pay the price of admission to see what those guys out west have going –

By the way, our editors trashed some of our advertisers products – so there are some folks doing it (needless to say they are no longer advertisers)

You will see less and less print and more and more online – with the number of print issues shrinking since online can be more timely and more cost efficient – plus you can integrate video, which is where it is all going – I’ve seen several projects that utilize fully media integrated articles – written word, photography, sound and video –

The future is bright (and cheap for readers) –

Mark Rumph

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If you are worried about getting wet, go with the chest pack. I thought I wanted a waist pack, but since I fish the coast a lot, I needed something a little higher. For $25 you can get a white river job at bass pro – it’s not water proof, but then when you are getting that wet, what really is –

It seems to be holding up well and I’ve fished with it probably 2-3 days per week for the past year in a wide variety of conditions and applications – and heck, for $25 I can get another when it wears out –

If you need the hydration factor, look at one of those combo jobs –

Mark

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I work for a fly fishing magazine part time, manage timber part time, and manage our family full time. I travel regionally to fish, live in Orlando and go to the Mosquito Lagoon on weekends, used to live outside of New Orleans and fished their often, have also lived and fished – Montgomery, Auburn, Birmingham, Mobile, Charleston (SC) –

I try to do one big trip a year, will do more as the kids get older (boys 7 and 2) –

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