PT:

Well said.

I hate crowds too, and refuse to "combat fish" anywhere...no matter how hot the fish are running. Just ain't worth the stress.

Doesn't matter how many times we get to see the wonderous lands we are blessed to live in...at times it is a better "catch" to just sit back and stare at the beauty that surrounds us.

I often get the image of some poor SOB sitting in a non-descript office in a standard looking building in Chicago, secretely reading the latest issue of StS behind his bosses back (hidden in the pages of the latest Quarterly Report, no doubt) and wishing with all his heart he could walk away from that mess and leave it all behind just to have a few days of fishing in this country.

Ya...we are truly a spoiled bunch of people.

Mike