Now theres an idea....I'll get Spiel to turn down the end of the butt into a point even better just mount a folding bayonet onto the end of it,multi purpose
Sometimes I get bad line twist right at the tip of my 13.5ft Loomis/Islander combo and when your standing in the middle of the river there's only one way to fix it as far as I'm concerned. The pole floats so I just lay it in the water and go to the tip. Got to be carefull in fast water cause if you fumble and loose contact its bye bye pole
My old reel would seize up when dirt got in it but now that I have an Islander that's never happened. Ive been running the standard abec3 bearings in this reel for a few years now with very little maintaining....
Here's something interesting and worth while looking into. My Arnie had some skin issues as well and the vet told us to use human Nyzerol shampoo to help him get rid of this yeast issue on his skin. A lot of it may be food related too like mentioned above and in this link.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100416113601AAZUU
Thanks all for the kind words.
Even though we knew this was coming there's was really no way to prepare for it until its here. Just one of those things I guess.
This afternoon we put our sixteen year old Dashund Arnie to sleep. He was a good dog, my best friend and fishing partner and I will miss him greatly.
Until we meet again Arnie...
Dev,
I like the green Islander
Right now Devon is using my back up reel "Floatmaster" and he has the Walace cast down to a T. He went 1 for 3 Steelhead this weekend where I got a big goose egg and the kid is only 14.
Go for the gold Dev !!