MB,

You're very polite in classing Trout Master's output as "banter". I think you have a couple of the letters right.. but it's called something else.

The Mrs. Zen Leecher is suggesting I don't go fishing for a while and perform some home projects. One (or two) of them I'm not looking forward to because of the effort and price. I have to replace some siding that has wet rot and it's behind my deck. So.. I have to tear the deck down to get behind it and it doesn't look like I'll be able to salvage the deck. So.. I need a new deck.

I've been looking at the temps over east of the mountains and thought they were cool enough to warrant one more trip to the seeps. But it's kinda hard to slip out the door with the Mrs standing there, arms crossed tapping her toes by the doorway. Even the Zen Leecher is wise enough to read those subtle signals.

I did get to test out my Clousers up in BC and thought they looked good in the water. Only got one hit and one good follow using them.... but thought it was the wrong time for using them.

The fly shops up in BC sell seal fur and polar bear hair. I almost weakened and bought some polar bear hair, but figured the bucktails I used for the Clousers was good enough.