and salt-wooder makes the best fish!

Doug-invitation extended! probably be a few months before anything is back on the menu.

saltwater (pronounced 'saltwooder') flyrodding is, if anything, easier than freshwater because shadows and lining fish are not issues (typically prefer to fish at night anyways). the rods/lines are heavier (i use a 9wt) and with fast sinking lines (needed for current) the motion is more of a giant open loop roll and you will commonly use a stripping basket (mine is a rubbermaid dish tub with heavy weedwhacker line sticking up).

what's really cool is walking the beach in the early evening and casting into the troughs that form right on the beach. LOTS of room to play the fish!

Cool! I have a brother just south of Salisbury off 13.

Here's some more BS. You living in a cave? Only about 6 states do not have a serious problem.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/24/tech/main638130.shtml

"(AP) More than one-third of the nation's lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers contain fish that may be contaminated with mercury, dioxin, PCB and pesticide pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

The EPA released a list of advisories issued by states that monitor lakes and rivers for pollution levels affecting fish caught during recreational and sport fishing but not deep-sea commercial fishing.

"It's about trout, not tuna. It's about what you catch on the shore, not what you buy on the shelf," Mike Leavitt, the administrator of EPA, said Tuesday. "This is about the health of pregnant mothers and small children, that's the primary focus of our concern."

Leavitt emphasized that monitoring by state officials is increasing, while pollution levels, particularly from mercury, are dropping.

But he also said that nearly every time state officials check for pollution, they find it, meaning that eventually almost the entire United States could have fish advisories."