One can get carried away about carry-ons

One can get carried away about carry-ons (Everett Herald)

An article about flying and fishing that we can all relate to. Are things getting a little to over the top with the airlines, I think so, especially when you can't wear your gel bra inserts...funny stuff from Mike Benbow........

Life is very quickly turning me into a minimalist.

I'm not talking about an alternative lifestyle kind of guy who lives in the woods and eats only brown rice. No, I've just reduced the complexities of many of the things I do to cut down on the hassle.

Take Canadian border travel, for example. I don't take any weapons, tobacco or liquor products into Canada and I try not to buy anything there other than food so I have nothing to declare when heading home.

I just want to drive up to the border, answer a few questions and head on home.

But air travel, which I thought I had finally figured out, has got me flummoxed again with this gel, water and aerosol thing.

If I wasn't fishing, air travel used to be a breeze. I just never checked a bag.

That really sped things up, and it ensured that I wouldn't have to worry about whether I would ever see my stuff again.

If I was fishing, I had to check a bag because of all my quasi-terrorist gear. For a while, you couldn't carry on a four-piece fishing rod that fit nicely into the overhead luggage bin. I don't know whether it was the aluminum case that was considered dangerous or the four pieces of thin graphite. Maybe it was the cork handle.

Carry on reading this article here

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Fly fishing on a jet boat!

Drawn by the lure of chilled currents (OregonLive.com)

What a great fly fishing trip. Taking a journey on a jet boat up rapids to get to those out of the way places, sounds like good fun and a break from the norm.

Drawn by the lure of chilled currents

A fishing trip on the Deschutes River brings high expectations

Monday, October 09,2006

DESCHUTES RIVER D awn lifts the silver-flecked night skyfrom the high desert. The rising sun paints gold stripesatop the Deschutes River canyon.

The nighttime serenade of train whistles is replaced by thelow thump of jetboat engines as we prepare for an autumnaltreat -- a day of steelhead fishing on one of the UnitedStates' premier rivers.

I've never been on a jetboat trip, but I am among thefour anglers in Jack LaFond's 24-foot boat. The RogueRiver sled pitches furiously through rapids namedRattlesnake and Washout.

Check out more of this article here

Thanks to Brian Meehan for this article.

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