best value 4 wt fly reel Classic Stream 3-4wt. – Proof Fly Fishing Just add some leaders and you are ready to hit the water! Bauer RX Fly Reel 4

The sight of these massive nets being lowered into the water is a spectacle that is both fascinating and awe-inspiring

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With smaller nets, and where allowed, one person can anchor an end to the beach and swing the other end through the water and back around to meet the anchored end

Wading boots are what they are (and at a cheaper price I still can't really fault the Greys Platinum ones), but these Simms ones have forever felt to me like wearing your favourite and most comfortable pair of hiking boots, and for the miles and terrain we cover, I can't think of better praise than that

The years have passed, of course, and I no longer ski at all now that Im in my 60s