About $110 to $140 now. Give Biden a raise too😮

Glad it helped!

The technology author Kevin Kelly (who wrote a very interesting manifesto about dynamic systems thinking called 'Out of Control'). A long time ago. Said something about technology. Technology has reached it's highest level of maturity. When it simply fades into the background and disappears from view. Technology that is very immature and temperamental on the other hand. Always seems to occupy 'the foreground'. It always seems to find a way. To get in front of your face and become the subject of your concentration or focus. The 'notifications' idea in electronic phones. Reminds me a lot of what Kevin Kelly said. His idea was that in a house say. Which was the most 'high tech'. It would look very spartan. Almost ancient in some way. All you'd find in it. Are four stone walls. Fishing rods in my experience. Have been like that. In that you can use them for twenty years. And if they don't get in the way. Of what you are doing. They probably are doing their job. As they should do. How many pieces of technology though? Are like that?

Alan Kay the former Apple and Xerox Laboratories engineer. Had some clever quip about it too. Alan always did. Such as, bleeding edge technology. Is anything that doesn't work properly yet. I fished a number 'eleven' weight fly rod. On a particular piece of water. For ten years at one point. It worked in so many different ways. To suit what I was doing. And I caught a lot of fish on it. That at some stage. I forgot the reason I had purchased it in the first place. It was not even purchased as a freshwater fly fishing rod. It was purchases as a number eleven weight saltwater fly fishing rod. It worked as a freshwater fly fishing rod. For a decade though. Because it enabled me to shoot line over long distances. With accuracy and little effort. In other words, the fishing rod. It kind of 'went away'. It faded into the background. As in the observation that Kevin Kelly made about technology. However, that was for a lot of 'static' method types of fishing. The reason I could get away with a fly fishing rod as heavy as that. Which made my 'work' really easy. Was because I wasn't doing anythinig with the bait. It was intended for static or semi-static methods of presentation.

More lately, I tried various kinds of four weight, five weight, six and seven weight rods. Why not eight, nine and ten? Because they would be too heavy. Where you are moving the bait more. Using the rod. It was about going from small baits, thrown far. That didn't move. To larger baits, which were thrown shorter distances, and they needed to move a lot. That is how the number ratings. On the rods that I was using. Came tumbling down so quickly. From number eleven. To a number five. Which I finally chose, as being a useful rod and weight to throw with. To cast and move the bait. Using the rod.

Here is the thing though. I normally put up two or three rods. Even for river fishing. Because in the small windows (we have a sort of behavior that trout do in summer time, which sounds strangely like what bass do during a Shad spawn window in America). That is, for an hour of darkness before the sun comes up. And an hour after it. There is a lot of activity. And you try to make the most of that. You don't want to flitter away a lot of time. Tying knots. I normally make the river, with enough time. To work by flash light. To tie the knots. And then try to make the most. From a narrow window. What I realized though. Is that thing. Which Todd Castledine explains. At the sixteenth minute. In the conversation about 'the fishing rod' for throwing. The Hybrid Hunter with. When you find a fishing rod that works. Find other things you can throw on it.

It's not too long ago. I was standing on the river. Having worked with four weights, five weights, six weights and seven's. With some eleven weight rods. Left in the vehicle. And it occurred to me. For that piece of water. For that type of fishing. I shouldn't actually have four weight up to seven weight. I should have multiple five weights. It sounds boring. Why not experiment? Why not be bold? Why not try different things? Why try different things, if one thing works really well? For that particular piece of water. The reality is though. That piece of water is firmly in what you would call. John Cox kind of landscape. It's full of vegetation and shallow areas. And parts that are difficult to cast in. Once I move anywhere out of that piece of river. I know it gets more open. The wind factor comes into it. The five weight that was really effective. Around the trees and vegetation. Where there was not a puff of wind or breeze. Now isn't able to cast a bait at all. It gets blown back in your face. And you find. The the six weight is ideal. You change location again. And you find the seven weight (that is, multiple rods lined up of seven weight specification with a choice of baits). Is the way to go. You go bigger water and more exposed conditions. You discover then. You need a couple of eight weights. To be productive.

I've replaced a lot things and can do quite a bit, not cause I'm mechanical but because I'm cheap. 😂

@@toddcastledinefishing5924 me too my friend! Just replaced my bildge mount screen thing cause boat company over screwed it to floor breaking it. Guess I won't here flopping noise any more. Had to buy whole pump just for screwdown base screen. And nope couldn't film it either. Upside down sideways lol. That's why you had me laughing and going 'you go Boy!' Peace