Steeldrifter

45 minutes ago, DWSmith said:

And don't ever return a call you missed unless you know the person.  You might call a local number and it's gets transferred around so you get charged $5 a minute or whatever.

Yep that's how I am as well. Like others in this thread have said, They do the same, I never answer the phone unless I know the number, or am expecting a call. If it is a number I don't know, I do not pick it up. A few weeks ago I had a call and the message he left was something like "Hi Steve this is Joe Blow (can't remember his name) call me back if you would at ___. Nope, not fallin for that one. With my business website it is easy to find my name and number. If it was in fact a customer or person I need to talk with, then they would have called back. I trust NO ONE these days.

All kidding aside..... I honestly don't think there is anything that will get rid of the majority of spam calls anymore. Now a days they have a way to clone numbers and make it look on the caller id like it's your local area code even when its coming from friggin India.

8'6" 6wt fiberglass Carp rod just out of the drying cabinet. NCP tan for main wraps with a metallic gold & black twist thread for the trim. About 6" of metallic copper wrapped in front of the grip which is where an inscription will go once that gets here. Rosewood seat and burl grip finish out the carp theme to the rod.

10' 3wt just out of the shop. Rosewood seat, burl accent grip and lime green wraps add a nice pop to the rod.

Man I swear, I don't know about all you guys. Your cars are all gonna break down if you don't get that extended warranty! 😄

Latest just out of the drying cabinet. 10' 3wt in garnet wraps with rosewood seat and burl accent grip.

Was 86 yesterday, now going down to 39 tonight....ahhhh yes, pure Michigan 🤪

Latest out of the shop today and headed to it's new owner tomorrow is this 10' 4wt done up in a darker color scheme.

Crazy here in Michigan. Been 85-86 for about 4 days now. Funny to see no leaves on the trees go from just buds to probably 50% leaves in less than 24hrs.

9' 5wt just out of the shop to start the weekend.

11' 2/3wt just out of the shop and ready to head to it's new owner for the upcoming season.

Depends on species as well as the river or body of water here in Michigan. Some streams are special regulations/catch & release only and are open year round, others have seasons that are closed. For the trout streams here that are closed, they open on the last Saturday in April.

1 hour ago, mikechell said:

I leave Sunday for three weeks south of Stockton, CA

My condolences 😒 😉

2 hours ago, DWSmith said:

I told my wife that the surgeon said I need to keep active so he wrote me a prescription for a kayak.  I don't think she believes me.

Tell her Doctors do sometimes have patients use rowing machines in physical therapy .......so....there's that 😄

9' 7wt just out of the shop and headed to its new home.

Yep spring is hopefully about to show up Tom. We are in the 50's here in Mi today, but next week it's supposed to be 70's all week and even 81 on Wed & Thursday!

What really blows my mind is how anyone could even afford to smoke these days. Back 12 yrs ago when I quit, I was complaining back then about paying $5.25 a pack for the Newports that I use to smoke. A week or so ago when I was standing in line at Walmart I saw the cigarettes behind the cashier in the lane I was in so I looked just to see how much they were now, and they were $9.00 a pack. That is just nuts 🙈

Back issue are hard. Luckily I have only had very minor issues with mine a few times in my life, but I remember how when I did have issues, it made just about everything I tried to do so much more difficult. Hopefully the improvements come quickly and you can get out and start enjoying yourself soon Dan.

Today is 12 years smoke free for me. Wasn't easy and it took probably well over 100 attempts, but Good Friday of 2011 I finally put them down once and for all and haven't touched one since. So glad I finally was able to quit 🙂

Have a great time Mark. Hope this is the year you bag that record.

It's 100% an agenda. They do not care about facts because if they did then they would have to face the fact that rifles are only used in "gun violence 😒" between 1.4% - 2.6% of the time depending on where you look, but at the very highest it is 2.6%.

Truth be told, handguns are used almost 55% of the time. The real reason they go after the AR15 is because if you look at the sales of rifles since the 1980's the vast majority of rifle sales are AR15. I can't remember the exact number off hand without looking but I know it is something like 60%+ of all rifle sales these days are AR15/.223. So they target the AR15 not based off any facts, but simply because they know if they can get rid of those sales that will take the largest amount of popular rifles out of the market.

They will not be successful though. The AR15 is not called Americans rifle for no reason. A number of the latest bans are already being challenged, and with SCOTUS rulings such as the Bruen, and Heller rulings, the unconstitutional bans are in fact starting to lose finally and rightfully so.

Sorry. Hope I did not ruin anyone's day 😄

Sorry....Mike, yep, was me 😁 We aren't going anywhere

Sorry lol. So many people messed with me today, I couldn't resist doing it here.

niveker....All BS aside. Man, you just pushed yourself into the next mod consideration bud lol. Seriously, all kidding aside. Thank you for what you said above. All BS aside, I do appreciate people here that say/feel that way👍After 20+ yrs of work. Nice to know some members actually appreciate our work here. That's awesome to see man. Thank you!

Well guys, after 25 yrs, we are gonna say goodbye FTF will be offline as of tomorrow .

Thank you all for what you have done over the past 20+ yrs. We appreciate you participation for so many yrs.

I could be waaaay off....but to my eyes I see "Gordon B. Machedy Redcast" 😬??