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Re:Why? 17 Years, 7 Months ago
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My line about catching more fish was a lighthearted poke at someone whose numbers I've yet to attain. 
I definitely fish 3X on rivers like the Lower Sac. That river for me just redefines what's needed for trout rigs. It's left me shaking my head a few times.
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It's BILL - not Neal, not Wayne.
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Re:Why? 17 Years, 7 Months ago
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Bjorn,
The answer to you question is, "Because I can". We evolve and change...our tastes change and our preception of own abilities and achievements change.
In 1972 when I purchased my first expensive reel (a Hardy Featherweight for $37 at Abercrombie & Fitch) I had to justify the price difference between it and my Medalist 1494 that cost less than $20 in 1967...the Hardy just felt better, sounded better, looked better, and made me believe that I could fish better (yeah, and Santa comes in December just before the Easter Bunny shows up in April)...the Medalist has been gone for a long time now...I still have that Hardy and don't miss the Medalist.
It doesn't matter what "stuff" costs as long as you believe that it functions for you the way you expect it to function.
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TD in ID (User)
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Re:Why? 17 Years, 7 Months ago
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The question of "how much is too much" varies from person to person, I suppose, but I share your bewilderment. Even more so, the cost of some lines, which are a less enduring product seems unrealistic to me, but some people shell out the money for a few new lines every season whether they actually need to change or not. Then there's the cost of some of the Sage rods... whew!
The old-timer who owns a local sporting goods store was always trying to get me to but an expensive new Browning. When I'd go in for a box of shells, he'd say something about how great they were and show me how smooth the new double was. I'd agree that it was nice, but always gave him the same answer: "Larry, no matter what the price is, you won't talk me out of my good old 870!" So one day I go in for a box of clays and they're having a huge sale -- he says "Hey, I can get you into a nice 12-ga here for $450!" To this I responded, "Sweet! I could get a brand new 870 Express Mag" for that!" That's when he started to get the point with me. I don't need a bigger, badder gun because the pawn-shop 870 is perfect for me!
It ain't about what you can afford, it's about what you can use well. Just like that shotgun, I'm still a big believer in the Lamiglas high-modulus rods, and they don't cost nearly what the bigger names do. Same thing to be said for the Tioga reels, even if they're a little heavier than my Galvans. They're still extremely high quality!
Then again, if you want to buy a $900 rod, $700 reel, $100 line and $700 waders, more power to you! <i>Support your local fly shop!</i>
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Re:Why? 17 Years, 7 Months ago
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Oh, I use 3x in a lot more places than the Lower Sac... the McCloud, Upper Sac, Pit... most nymphing rivers and whenever I an get away wiht it. I go down to 5x when fishing Hat or the Fall, just because the flies tend to be too small to get 3x through the eye of the top fly twice! Well, that and the drift is probably a little more lively.
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Re:Why? 17 Years, 7 Months ago
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Well...
Lets say you have to drive to the grocery store to pick up some baby formula. You can accomplish this task equally well in a Volkswagon or a Mercedes. Does that mean one shouldn't own a Mercedes?
Beats me. 
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"Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadow, rivers that have eroded down deep in a mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's history exposing the texture of time itself."
— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)
"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton
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