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Hi Jim, Sorry to hear about the passing of your relative. It seems that his collection of vintage bamboo rods and reels deserves attention. A review by someone with knowledge in this area. Depending on the condition rods made by makers like Payne and ...

Memorial Day: Interesting history for this holiday beginning as something called 'Decoration Day' and intended to recognize the Union war dead from the Civil War. The tradition was to go out to your local cemetery and put flowers on the graves of ...

Hey Doc - Simply put, you are the "real deal". As an important aside, tomorrow is Memorial Day. This Day we take time to honor and remember the brave men and women who have given their lives defending and protecting our Nation's freedoms. RJB ...

Gracie is indeed on the road to recovery...we just got back from a two hour drive visiting a couple of local farms that sell their product direct to the public, a swing along the Chippewa River, and a stop at a local strawberry farm to see how far along ...

I've failed at plenty of things in my life - if those things were important to me, I acknowledged the failure, backed up a little, reassessed and went back at it. If the things that I failed at weren't important to me, I still acknowledge and learn, ...

My daughter's father-in-law died earlier the year. He left behind a couple of dozen bamboo fly rods and matching reels. How do I advise the widow to liquidate them? Where do I start? Examples in the inventory include Hardy Polokuna, Payne 204L and Paul ...

The irony, Ken, is that you have the wisdom to see that you have sometimes failed in your life and have the humility to accept that fact. And you have a faith that helps you through. Fact is we all fail at times, and some have the character to use those ...