limapapa: Not a Westly this time, but an H&H Royal that started life as a 2-inch gun. It's now one of the nicest 16s that I've ever seen or handled.
Dogon: Change is hard, it's even harder if you're stupid about it. Colorado has become California in so-many ways. I've considered our time here as very fortunate but I'm not sure that this will be where I make my last stand.
Foxy: Yes....I've got lots of tackle that I don't really have a place to use anymore. I have been told that I'm overly-fussy and that I should be grateful for at least the opportunity to get out, and in many ways that is true (I suppose). My problem is that my memory is still too-vivid, still too-fresh, of lovely, open, & uncrowded rivers and streams. When I go now (& I do so very deliberately to avoid said crowds by going mid-week, in off-seasons, and very early) it is occasionally still some of the fun that I recall. But.... the experience pales by comparison to my past adventures and I haven't been able to fully get over that.
Ted: Even the LOTW isn't immune from crowding anymore. I've had several occasions where I'd set up on a piece of structure, drop my anchor and start to fish and then... find myself in a crowd shortly after catching a few. LeFusil is dead right, things are clearly filling up in this country. The lonely places are getting ever-harder to find and then (selfishly) protect.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 09/11/22 07:20 PM.
