Zach Matthews
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Guys –
I am sure you would be able to handle it just fine if you really cared enough, but yeah, physical size and relative strength and, not to sugar coat it, balance, are just unavoidable factors.
Where you cross the Clinch on 75 is actually right on the trout stream section. The dam is upriver to your right from there (going north).
“Both sides of that split though have been going toward lighter, faster graphite that can both bend deep and handle a lot of power application, and those rods tend to be both better fishing tools and able to lay out longer amounts of line.”
They’re being driven toward some similar designs these days, David. The TCR may have been the high water mark of the split in design philosophies. Remember the RPL+?
But generally speaking, Sage and Loomis make stiffer and faster rods than Winston and Scott.
Zach
Ooooh, stand up paddleboard. Took me a while to figure that out Mike.
Lauren has been looking at one of those, actually. I am not convinced myself; I don’t see that it is that much more stable than a Native kayak or small canoe, and it is much harder to go upstream in (it’s kind of a barge, really). It’d be nice for flat water but for rivers it has its disadvantages. A major one is the inability to bring much with you.
I have been stand up fishing out of a 14’7″ Old Town Guide canoe all summer and I am really liking it. I have my little axle for transport (which I can stow in the boat), and I can haul a cooler for beer, a drybag for cameras, extra rods (I have been hauling at least an 8 or a 10 and a spey) not to mention an anchor, which is nice.
All told the weight is about 100 lbs., so heavier, but the axle cancels that issue out. I honestly don’t know if the canoe would be stable for everyone; I think build has something to do with it, but I am 100% comfortable in it and have even fished standing in waves out in the ocean.
Also, is this the standard Mac deal where you can actually pick up one copy for like $30 and put it on as many machines as you want, or does it finally have some kind of DRM that detects multiple copies on the same network?
Wray –
You can fish the mountains in August, and frankly you’d have a hard time getting out of Gatlinburg to go smallmouth fishing anyway.