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most of the talking is be-tween the charter boats, although the charters use the cell phones a lot, and talk is serious. When the weekend ar-rives, the radio if full of nonsense. People yell-ing at each other, tell-ing jokes and just plain chit-chat. It is annoying, to say the least. These folks are also “Sharing” information with oth-ers, for what it is worth. “What did you catch that salmon on”? “We were using flies & flashers.” “What color”? “Green on Green”.

Wel l that te l ls you NOTHING. Head for the tackle shop & look for a green flasher and a green fly………Good luck. You will find at least 30 – 40 combinations of green flashers. With respect to the green fly…………….there will be another 30 – 40 different green flies, all just a little bit differ-ent than the other.

The other interesting thing is that it seems that you never hear of any two people catching fish with the same baits. Too many choices.

Well, the “Hot” flasher this year was the E-Chip “Goldfinger”. One side gold and the other, ½ & ½ bright green & bright gold. Now that you have the flasher, what to put behind it? We ran the original “Hammer” fly & did quite well.

For some reason or an-other, we had our best luck during the first hour of each day. After that, it was a long time between fish. We were joking about going out for an hour and then heading for camp to take a nap.

I had stated earlier that we had invested in one of the new “Fish Hawk” speed & temperature units and that was a valuable asset this year out there. What wind we did have certainly blew the water around & changed the fishing tremendously. The first few days we were there we had to go way out to water that was 300 feet deep to get any good temperature. All the water in closer was too

Dave with 1st King Salmon of our 2013 trip and a personal best at 28 lbs.

I think our total time on the water (including travel time) that morn-ing was just over an hour and a half. We no sooner set lines than we had a fish on. Got that one in & settled back down and the second rod went off. We were back to the dock with our 2 fish, well be-fore 10:00 AM and they weighed in at 24 & 25 lbs. What a GREAT way to end the trip.

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warm. The only problem with that was that I only had 180 feet of cable on my downriggers & really couldn’t get down into the cold waters. A couple of times we were out so far that we could see the bottom of the cable spool. However, that did change over the next few days and we were able to fish the shallower waters.

As a rule, we travel on Saturdays, going out & coming home, but try to get in a couple of hours on the Friday morning prior to departure. After that short jaunt, we pull the boats out & pack them up for traveling home the next day.

This year, I had de-cided to fish until 10:00 AM or 2 fish, whichever came first. It was a ½ hour ride OUT to where we wanted to fish and a ½ hour ride back in.

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DEAR KATHY: Well, you’ve come to the right place! I’ve been a master plumber, among other things, for about 35 years. As you might suspect, I’ve installed new tubs, relo-cated existing ones and repaired leaking ones more times than I care to remember. If you’ve got a top-notch remodeler on board who uses a great plumber, you’ll have no problems.

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Replacing a smaller tub with a larger soaking tub should be no problem for an experienced plumber.

anxiety. If you’re like the average person, you’ve never seen the piping that’s connected to bath-tubs. Many years ago it was common for the tub to back up to a closet wall in another room or even to a bathroom pantry with an inspection panel that could be removed to gain access to the tub and shower valve.

This panel also allowed you to see the very fasci-nating waste and overflow pipes that connected to the bathtub drain and the overflow hole higher up on the tub. These pipes, if you just view them on their own, resemble the letter L with a tiny stub

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