The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

oldtrout wrote:

I guess I have the ability to look past all the crap. I guess some people don't have that skill; ergo, they prefer the board the way it is now. I sure don't like this board much at all these days. Does anyone care how I feel? I hope not!

You know, it got so bad here that even I could not offend anyone. There was nobody left who cared. And, those that did care got tired of waiting for the pages to load. I think things really went downhill when I gave up Tequilla and all other hard liquor . . .

The old board was like Howard Stern on "free" radio. Love him or hate him, you tuned in to hear what he would say next . . .

I used to think Skirt was this jerk anti-gun, anti-capital liberal. As luck would have it, I made it to a spring bash, and the odds were with myself and SLO where we ran into him stream-side at PH2 Riffle. The next few days, fishing with Skirt and getting to know him, made for one of my fondest fishing memories. I learned a great deal about casting from him. I loosely kept in touch with Skirt since then, and have been able to fish with him again. He was even there when I shot the mouse in the cabin at Alpers (remember the hypocritical stink with Big TJ?). Those were some fun times on the board. It was like somebody's crazy relative always stiring things up. That crazy liberal Portegee FTIR and the Kerr brothers - those were some great threads. Strange how the Fairness Doctrine crowd squelched the free sheech that did not measure up to their standards.

I never met Willie face-to-face, but sure enjoyed our interactions after our initial confrontations. Nobody could point out revisionist history like Willie. I guess he also went the way of Skirt, as I have not seen him in a long time either.

Bjork, I am not sure if we ever met, but I do remember all your posts over the years. I cannot remember agreeing with any of them, but this latest consumer fraud thread sure wound me up. Patagonia is HQ'd in my backyard here in Ventura County (along with Abel), and is supposed to ba a good employer. I have some ten plus year old Abel reels with lots of dings and scratches from heavy use. I could not imagine walking in there and asking them to somehow make them new again. Good for you that Christmas came early (is that a PC analogy?). It is people like you that create higher consumer prices for everyone else. Like the higher taxes all us producers must pay to cover the moochers, at least you got yours.

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