Bill, I was born in western Chicago suburbs. I grew up in a small unincorporated town and had fields and empty lots to play ball in all year. I spent a good amount of time with friends and my brother riding our bikes to local farm ponds to catch mostly bullheads and some decent sunfish which were brought home and cleaned and part of the weekly food budget. Started on a fly around 12 or so and our family had relatives we visited a lot in WI. I still have a Shakespeare Wonderod and Garcia automatic reel from those days. Lived up in northern MN for many years and had the streams and Lake Superior at my back door. Wonderful summers and fall, not so much winters or springs.
Something that always struck me as funny was when I got into spinning I tried to talk my Dad and uncle into using mono because it was so much less visible than there black lines and steel leaders. Years later when I got into bass tourneys and braided line came into the market one of the things encouraged then was to mark the lines with a black marker to make them less visible. Funny world of fishing we live in.
I have you bookmarked and will make sure to take time to go through your forum and enjoy all the aspects of it. I'm happy to see someone still supports the bulletin board type of forum.
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