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  1. I read somewhere that goretex will pass water if you are sitting on a wet surface. I don't know if that's true or not but my old goretex don't keep me dry any more.
  2. So the OP posted his question about a year ago and hasn't come back since!!. Sorry, but any more suggestions I might make would not be related to fishing!
  3. Looks like your 2 months of bad sleddin' are long gone!😃
  4. Yes--big diff. Bees normally don't sting unless provoked. Wasps are agressive and nasty, like to buzz around food, beer. etc. I got a wasp trap for my deck. I've had to dump it out a couple of times because the new arrivals were just walking on the corpses of earlier ones. I took a certain amount of sadistic pleasure in seeing them drown.
  5. “Farewell, Mr. Dave”: A hometown bids goodbye to David Lindley - Fretboard Journal
  6. We have a portable HEPA filter unit in our living area to help with my wife's COPD. We have a open plan so the kitchen and dining area are connected. It seems to work quite well. It has 3 speeds indicated by blue, orange, or red indicator lights. It runs continually on low(blue) and is almost silent. Sometimes when we are cooking, esp if we are frying, it will kick into orange or even red for a little while before reverting back to blue. I suspect that it does that faster than our furnace filter would clean the air in the whole house, which is about 3 times the volume.
  7. OK, thx. I am surprised that a plastic cutting board would take the edge off a knife but your experience suggests otherwise I guess. I will try doing my cutting mostly on the one board we have and see if it helps. Thx for the invite. Maybe I will come by.😄 Where do you live? 😄
  8. Thx for the comments, guys! I was a bit mistaken in my original post. One of my 8" chopping knives is a Henkel, prob bought from CTC as some of you have done. The other one is a Slitzer. AK---maybe you have identified my prob. I normally use a plastic cutting board. We have a few of them and often use 2 at a time. It would be a PITA to switch over to wood though in terms of use and wash up. The pic below shows what I use for sharpening. At the top is a 120/240 oilstone. Below that are 3 whetstones in 400, 600, and 1000 grit. I can get a very sharp edge using those----not just slicing thru paper on edge at a 90 deg angle but at small angles down to about 15-20 deg. I sharpen all the kitchen knives with those. Maybe I have become a bit compulsive about that. The other thing that I may be confused about is the idea that chopping knives have quite a lot of curvature on the cutting edge. Maybe I got that impression from watching clips of chefs chopping vegs, but when I Google 'chefs' knives' or similar all the knives seem to have a minimal curvature at the point end just as mine have.
  9. are those dry flies or wet flies? thx
  10. Lots of good bass in every shallow bay or passageway.
  11. Hey guys I know many of you do lots of cooking. I don't but I have been doing lots of chopping for my wife who does most of the cooking, at least for the fancier stuff. I am using what I think are fairly cheap knives with a straight cutting edge. I can make them very sharp but they soon lose their edge. I seems to me that a knife that has some rocker to the cutting edge would work better. Your thoughts?? TIA
  12. I'm not sure if I am reading this right. I have only tried mine once or twice and did not get a hit. My understanding of the 'proper' way of using them(if there is such a thing as 'proper') was to attach them a short dist from the bait---maybe 5-10 ft?----and that when you did a vigorous hook set they would slide down the line. I may well be wrong on that
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