Zach Matthews
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Brad –
Your image link needs to end in a file name, such as http://www.whatever.com/pics/filename.jpg.
The board software doesn’t recognize a directory (anything ending in a / mark) as a file.
Zach
Yeah canoes are very easy to come by for cheap these days.
I would look at getting one with as flat a bottom as possible; rolled-hull canoes are truly relics of the days when they were made of bark or canvas.
Mike –
I have a Primus EtaPower kit that looks just like this one (not my pic):
Then I also got an MSR Superfly that I haven’t used yet; it’s going in the pack this fall with ramen and a small GSI one-man pot so I can have some hot food on the back of beyond.
I was hiking in heavy snow last year and felt myself getting really sleepy and cold about 3 miles from the trailhead, which is not good.
Andrew –
False advertising, as long as it is accidental, usually would qualify for insurance coverage for an operation like Whiting’s.
Doyle –
You need to be looking in the Little Red River area, about 1h15m away in Heber Springs Arkansas.
I am pretty sold on these:
That’s what I have wound up using for 90% of my river fishing for striped bass this summer, and I am planning on continuing with the 8 weight this fall/winter for upper Hooch brown trout. Tactics are identical; you just use different flies.
In fairness, the taper on the Streamer Express series is pretty choppy, because it’s an integrated shooting head, but it does make for nice easy long casts. For prettier casting I might choose a more tapered full intermediate but I don’t think anyone beats SA’s chemistry on these clear lines. Every other kind of clear line I have ever used has delaminated or stretched off its core within a few outings; these lines have been if anything MORE durable than the average shooting line. SA’s running line is a kind of supple but very heavy solidcore mono that can’t kink or get wonky because it doesn’t appear to have a jacket to twist around the core. I think it’s just all one piece back there.
Zach
