Riverboy, i also got my cabela's cataloge yesterday. ya i could do some shopping in that to. i'm looking at the glIII fly rod thats a 9# for the salmon later this year. i'm going to order it as a present to myself for all the fishin' time i missed while i was in iraq. im off to ft. mc coy tomorrow morning to wait on the rest of the company to return the end of march from iraq. i still have this shoulder to get fixed-up in wisc. yet. sure like to meet up with ya for some steelheading in april an to trade some of are extra fly material an trade some of are hot fly patterns.