OUCH!!!!!!
My St. Croix has a lifetime warranty, no matter how it breaks send it to them and they'll replace it.
My Orvis only has a 25 year warranty on it, oh darn. I figure if it makes it the nxt 24 years and 9 months since when I bought it I'll be doing ok.

My fiance' doesn't want to use my new Orvis, she'' stick with my St. Croix instead, she says she doesn't want to break, drop in the water or otherwise damage my new rod.

The thing she don't realize is It woudn't bother me too much is she did, the rod can be replaced easier than she could be replaced. Oh, and the st. Croix was my first fly rod, it's more sentimental than the Orvis.

 

sierraben, I can't look at the Orvis catalogue ( wife hates my big money ideas), they have equipement that must bring in state trophy trout. Weights, specs mean drool to me, ha, ha. Trout is around $400 a pound with the equipement purchased. Can't bring home fish with a Safeway lable on it, she'll know as she was a meat wrapper ( 2020 Market St.). Thanks for the tip for instructions as I need help in many ways besides fishing and the 86 CS.
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If a tree had fallen on my house while my EX was here and I was still in the service stationed away - I would have given it a MEDAL!

My Poppa used to tell me this one story about a friend of his back when he still knew a lot of Pennsylvania hard-rock miners.

The guy had a cabin and there was a tree stump next to it from a mighty big old sucker. They dug out under the roots on the side toward the house, planted their charges, packed the hole with a lot of gravel and laid a pallet on that side to protect the house (Pop's exact words!).

Then they got behind a pile of dirt about fifty feet away, and detonated it...

He said they looked out around the dirt pile, the house was completely untouched, and the stump was GONE man.

And then they looked up, because they didn't see it anywhere...

He said it was coming down at them looking like the most brobdingnagian octopus anybody ever saw! He cut one way - and his buddy ran like hades the other!!!!

Wooo-hooo! Roots and all...

 

China oil off subject;
I still have my Simmonds Hardware glass two piece 8' pole with Mitchell 304 reel over 40 years old that is my favorite and best feeling pole. A Steelhead fennwick 8.5' pole for $37.50 with a 300 Mitchell to feed trout.
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My grandpa used to do that too, he said he had one that was pretty big so he used a full stick of dynamite instead of a quarter stick. He said when he set it off it went at least 90' up, roots and all. He ended up just building a pond where it had been instead of filling the hole in.

 

Not sure what happened to my fly-rods. My wifes boyfriends must have liked them while I was deployed...

Still have my surf rods though, and a crappie rod that I can use as a fly rod. Crappie poles are thinner and more flexible though - it would be like using a long spaghetti noodle.

Not a big problem around here though - salt water tackle works better on the size of Bullhead and Mudcat that are out there.

 

Now I'm going to put you in "reel" trouble with the wife.

http://www.theflyshop.com/

 

Greywolf, sorry about the lost of your flyrods.

I could visualize that tree stump slamming to earth.

As long as no one was hurt, that must have been a site to see.

I can't do that kind of stuff here.

I'd have the A.T.F., A.B.C., D.E.A., F.B.I., S.F.P.D., D.O.J., and probably the C.I.A. asking many many questions while they're driving me to Sacramento, Ca.

 

(Grin)

SB - Between my Pop, and all the friends I've met in the service that "I Can't Talk About" I can mix my own if I wanted to use something like that. But the only thing I use the info for is to know WHAT NOT to store in the same area of the house or garage - even if it came from Walmart or the local grocery store. Suffice it that the average suburban home makes me kind of nervous to be around.

I'm kinda funny that way - I think about stuff. That tree could probably come down in small pieces using ropes. But it would be slow that way, and you'd have to be part squirrel to get up in it. How tall did you say it was, and how big around are the bases of the branches?

I dropped a Thorn tree right next to my house several years back with nothing more than a chain saw. It took a week to cut it all up, and the trunk had to be dragged to the side with a truck.

This might be a stranger coincidence yet-
Earlier this year a friend of mine pointed out a half dead tree at his place, with busted limbs all over it. We cleared most of them off that afternoon, using a recurve bow, a fishing rod, and a series of ropes hooked to the class II ball on my diesel.

The line from the fishing rod was looped in the threads of the arrowheads, and then the heads screwed down. I fired the bow over the limbs we wanted down, and then we used the fishing rod to draw up a light line (clothesline, in fact) over the limbs.

Next we used the clothesline to pull heavy climbers/rapelling line up over the branches, and ripped them out of the tree using the truck.

We did it this way so that we could control the line of fall, there were utility lines within forty feet of that monster.

 

Sounds like you have a keeper. Congradulations

Flyrods are meant to be used and enjoyed, unless it's a antique. I've dropped mine so many times and even stepped on it a few times.

I enjoyed it and still do when I do go fishing.

Up to you, but just tell the GF, enjoy the flyrod, it's what it's there for.

 

Greywolf, my biggest tree in the backyard is a 25 foot holly tree; other than that, weeds and sandy soil (used to be sand dunes before they built these houses at the turn of the century).

My backyard is huge at 25 feet by 25 feet. LOL

I live in a concrete jungle, except for the sycamore trees that line the street where I live; and they're the cities responsibility.

 

She's not a GF anymore, she my Fiance'

And believe me I know this, I have been reminded ONCE of this new fact, I almost had a scar on the side of my head in the same shape as her ring to remind me of this.

Ain't learning and the educational process great?

Greywolf, sounds like you have a mind full of engeenuity too! What we could accomplish if we only tried!

 

Birdhunter1, I didn't mean any offense in calling her your GF.

And yes, i've been "educated" many times. LOL.

 

No offense taken, just if she reads these she'll "remind" me for not remindig you.


Funny how that works.
Actually just kidding, she's not bossy or itchy (you know what word I could use instead).

 

Err, Birdhunter - just try very hard not to store car stuff in the laundry room, or vice versa, "K"? Trust me...

25' huh? Thats a step-ladder job. If the stump is left high (about eight or ten feet minimum) a cable reel puller (what we used to call a 'come-along') might be able to lay the trunk over. Better yet if you can get a pickup truck back there, or alongside the house to where you can attach a rope or chain.

I don't see much difficulty in that... But you weren't the one with the forty foot elm, way back at the top.

Seems to me half of the height is trunk, approximately. The limbs are the PITA. Wood is heavy and awkward. I think a forty footer would be fairly easy unless the branches were in a really bad spot.

The Thorn I dropped was about ninety foot altogether. When I made the final cuts I pushed it by hand and down she went. (right where I wanted it too)