LOL!! You got that right RT! I'm not letting you off on the bent hook thing, though. We all have "reasons" for a fish coming unbuttoned, but until it's either MANUALLY released or the wood shampoo is applied, you can't count it.

I'll tell you one thing..........you'll have one up on me fishing the Mississippi, er Columbia, for springers. Never been there, haven't done that. Hopefully the rookie luck will shine on me, or I could be munching crow at the get-together.