Uh oh Justin. Looks like you won't be heading down this direction until about what, December? Pray like hell the winter-runs come back like the summers. Ha Ha!!

Went back out today with another buddy of mine (he's currently not a member of this board) who had two sets of clients. We managed to hit 17 again. Landed only 10 this time. But, not bad considering it was Saturday, a $#%@-load of boats on the river, and the second group of clients were from Boston who didn't even know what a steelhead was (I say ''was'', cuz they do now). We also had two youngsters, ages 8 and 10, along for the trip.

I guess the only downfall of the day was me blowing up my IMX 1141 while setting the hook on a fish. One of the 3 pieces, yes THREE, came back and nailed me right in the friggin' cheek. Lemme tell ya, it wasn't fun spending the next 20 minutes pulling graphite splinters out of my head!! You would've had a good laugh. By the way Justin, weren't you the one who told me I set the hook too hard?? All I can say, is "Yeah, somethin' like that..."

James