Great helps guys!!! Thanks!!!

I'd STILL love to hear from anyone else that has an opinion!!! The "Masters" thing dates back to a post I wrote to Bob on here saying I felt like I was "learning from the Masters on this BB"!

Another question regarding gear management...What about JIGS??? My Pip wouldn't hold many if I went that route, and I think the feathers would suffer!!! I like the tape idea for leaders, but, again, as far as JIGS go it seems like they'd get damaged!

That brings up ANOTHER question...(God, lucky for me I've got YOU guys in my life!!!) Okay...when I fish with jigs for Kings on the Salt, I use a snap to hook and unhook my Pt. Wilson Darts, or whatever I'm jigging. Why can't I use one of them for the jigs in the river??? For Steelhead??? Do you all tie up your jigs to your leaders or does anyone use the snap system?? I haven't tried the clip system on the rivers, cause it never sounded like anyone DOES this, but when I was out with a friend earlier in the season, we snapped on my Wiggle Wart and some other gear! Why not for jigs while wading in the river???

My boots HAVE felt bottoms...I think I'd be DEAD if I tried wading in lug soles! I think maybe...until I'm more adept at hiking in the water, I should stay out of the deeper stuff!!! Comfort zone...good word!!! Come to think of it I could just bring my pole to the chair by the woodstove and cast from there! It's pretty comfortable THERE!!! Kidding!!! Just KIDDING!!! It's the same thing when I've climbed trees or rocks...I can get UP just GREAT...but when I turn around and have to get BACK...then I'm in trouble!!! I think I need to be more careful than I have been!!!

I hunt and stalk fish when I fish in the Puget Sound, and I just realized that I get so busy on the river, trying gear and figuring out where to cast, that I many times forget that I'm actually HUNTING there too...this amazes me, cause 1/2 the draw for fishing is the hunting aspect!!! I'll have to work on that!

I thank you for the helpful info you've taken the time to share...I look forward eagerly to any others bits of advice ahead!!!

Hope you get to enjoy the day!!! Now I' gonna go take more Ibuprofen...I over did it on Friday!!! Owwww!

L

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"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds!" Albert Einstein