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  1. Eh, I don’t think Texas is the villain for hiring schloss, he was the best available, if the best available was elsewhere we’d hired that guy. Plus A&M shit the bed with him and when push comes to shove he probably got tired of fellating the Aggies and their bubble blowing train engine counting traditions. so aggy can tell the world all about us but meh, whatever. Yes we are loved or hated but to say the Aggies are right about who we are, that’s sillier than the silliest tradition they claim.
  2. I'm pretty sure I won't be any sort of inspiration or encouragement to you, but I've never been able to do chin ups and i'm stuck at 6 push ups (3 sets) max. that's all I can do. those two exercises are total bullshit.
  3. fuuuuck. margaritas and mexican food for dinner after my work out because, well, I earned it. at least my wife was happy on two margaritas so we had monday night sexy times. but the absolute hunger was nonsense.
  4. niiiiiiice. I've "caught" a tarpon - in as much as I hooked it and it jumped 4 feet in the air before telling me good bye but I've never landed one in the net.
  5. Someone tell me about fiberglass v graphite or carbon… not sure I’ve tossed a fiberglass rod.
  6. sorry, not sorry.
  7. in that way, a tenkara can even be better. and in really tight places I'd rather use that than any traditional set up.
  8. Thanks guys now I’m not working and reorganizing my fly boxes. Fuck Mondays.
  9. I don't always buy the gobble-dee-gook they advertize with but this is supposedly what makes those sage rods perform so well... I mean that sounds right to me. it's a great little rod. the clicking sound when you pull some slack out is pretty bad ass.
  10. I love my scott for salt water it's 8 wt, 9ft. it's pretty stiff (fast action) and it's a bad ass rod. I can cast accurately and consistently 30-35 ft with winds at 10. At times if I have to and it's first half of the day I can cast 50 ft with that thing. but I have no experience with the smaller scott rods. I like my sage 3wt quite a bit. And as a salt water angler now as my more common type of fishing, I scoff at the idea of a stiff breeze in the mountains. no such thing. go with the rod you like the best, make sure you describe what you want out of the 3 wt and go that direction. my guess is you'll enjoy either of those two rods, quite a bit.
  11. my colorado ross is a no drag reel. for a 3 wt catching small fish, you'll not need the drag, you'll never get the fish on the reel to begin with.
  12. As a wine snob, I don’t even drink beer.
  13. that's really good context, I agree.
  14. TFO is good, but I'm kinda moving on. I think for a casual angler it's pretty damn good. my original 5 wt is TFO, I might check out a few others of theirs for a replacement 5 wt, but my 3 wt sage, 8 wt scott and 12 wt thomas & thomas are noticeably more enjoyable to fish. I may find for my preferences that a different make of a TFO 5 wt would work well (for the lighter weight rods I tend to like slower action, fish are less powerful, often times a dry fly, and distance casting isn't as big of an issue), but I haven't looked into it. but to be fair at the time that TFO 5 wt (9 ft) was like $200 and my 3 wt sage (8 ft) was $1000 and the inflation issue let's see I bought the TFO in 2020 and the sage in 2024. it's pretty clear the TFO is still a budget / value brand, so long way of saying, yeah TFO is good. the Ross colorado 3 wt reel is what I have (Damor mentions the same reel) is great. and I just re-read Chew's budget, under $1000, TFO and that ross reel is probably a really nice set up for the price.
  15. I ❤️ Texas Baseball. I just love it so much.
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