Sorry, but I wanted to make sure it was cool with the winner before posting anything public. I did get private email bids. Catch and Eat over on ifish was bidder on the box-o-stuff. I don't have the number in front of me, but it was something like $125 or $130. Jennie, over at ifish, did say she'd give half of that to Bob. Looks like everyone is a winner! Bob said something about donating to Eric's sons chair, so that is cool!

As to why I did that? Why not? Seemed like a cool thing to do. Glad to see that both boards shared the wealth, and maybe some deserving kid, too!

My busted rod went back to IMX to get replaced. The nice thing about Loomis is that unless you do something stupid and break the rod yourself, they are really good at warranty service on those IMX's. All 3 of my broken IMX's were replaced via warranty service.