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I've got a Kuat Piston Pro X Hitch mounted bike rack. Brand new in box. Retails for 1300, would like to see 1100.00.

Shoot partner. I'll be in touch and we can just make it happen, no need to hope.

We are back. Between Rent and Child care hitting us for over 5k a month we moved back last summer. It really was the best with Jim was there. I don't know if anyone else is on the board that was a part of the shop in an official capacity but that seemed to be the best. Those few years when it switched from back country to plateau was amazing. Great community, classes, people stopping in and talking and it SEEMED like someone almost always bought something. I think it's hard here with BPS down the road but it really can, and should be a different crowd that hits the two hard. The sense of community is what is going to keep a shop going here in swmo. Having been to shops all over the west it can be amazing if you foster it. Fly fish food in utah, also bought Jimmy's out in IF are amazing. Half the ones in colorado or west yellowstone i'd go back to in a heart beat. Like I mentioned I know a bunch of people out in the Jackson shops too and it was always good how much local support they got because they catered, did outreach and were trying to grow fly fishing in the area.

Sitting at my desk and eating a muffuletta, RPS, those look great (i didn't make mine). Made a duck gumbo last week Ness, Yours looks great. back to work I guess.

Just saw this thread. Plateau closing is a real bummer. There has been a fly shop in that spot since as long as I can remember when I started college back in 2008. Back in the what felt like the glory days of it, 2011 to 14 maybe it was amazing. Great stock , events, everything you wanted your local shop to be. After moving to KC in 14 it still seemed to be great until I moved, and when I got back last year I was less impressed. Just didn't seem to have everything or the vibe that it used to. When I lived in Jackson I was good friends with people who ran the orvis shop and knew a lot of guys and guided with a few that worked at JD's. Going to tying classes, and even just stopping in to talk fishing was another level. There is enough around here that I feel like it could/should work with getting stuff stocked, community outreach, things like that. Either way, I'll miss plateau.

As someone who started with the same kind of rods and have moved to some of the higher ends I definitely understand it. That said The highest end rods aren't probably worth it for you unless you have the means to spend, or WANT to spend that. I've shifted and primarily only fish orvis recons, some tfo bvk rods , a sage or two , and some lower end tfo "pro" rods. Those are fine but I definitely notice a difference when fishing the nicer rods. They are lighter, crisper, i enjoy fishing them more. my favorite rods the last couple years have actually been 10 footers. even for short close stuff i've found mending much easier.

First foray back into the board in a while... but for Christmas dinner my wife's cousins and I decided we were tired of the traditional dinner so we fixed a bunch of thai food. It was FIRE and outside of their grandma being worried about everything we knocked it out in an hour at our house while everyone watched the chiefs game. They did a nice light thai dressing salad, pad thai, and red curry dumpling soup. We made Shrimp Pad Woon Sen (my FAVORITE thai dish), pork satay with peanut dipping sauce, fried pork and veggie spring rolls, Shrimp red curry. I also made a FUNKY chili fish sauce drizzle if you wanted to add a little zjusch (sound it out and it makes sense) to your food. Pretty happy and I think we have the family convinced of doing something new for every holiday, thinking vietnamese for easter. We also have family over for pretty much every chiefs game. Las week Ash made Smoked sausage and Kielbasa soup with homemade bread bowls and I made a nice Albondingas. Trying to up the soup game so I've also made a nice brothy (I don't like the creamy ones) Chicken tortilla soup and white chicken Chilli. Curry buttnernut squash soup with crab and topped with pecans has been great lately. Also made a nice blue cheese and butternut squash pasta the other day with some crispy chicken thighs over top. well.. back to real life.

We started keeping whities 2 summers ago. We would make a smoked dip quite a bit for anytime we hung out with people. Also braised some in a tomato sauce and picked clean, was unbelievable. It sounds weird but it's also FANTASTIC pickled and actually have a jar in my fridge right now. There are still PLENTY down south of yellowstone in the snake and in all the tribs.

Sorry just saw this. Love hatchet. We live about 20 minutes away right now down Buffalo Valley rd. Know the full crew over there. They are awesome.

No.. it's not trying to eliminate the riff raff it is people buying second homes and using them as investment properties for vrbo and air bnb. Everyone wants to visit here so they have no trouble filling spots. They make their money on less than six months of the year between summer parks and fishing, and ski season. It was already tending this way and COVID royally screwed the working class here. A lack of state income tax and not having to work from an office totally changed the dynamic for people buying houses here. In 2019 teton county topped Manhattan for the highest average adjusted family income in the country, topping 300k for the first time ever. There is a MASSIVE housing crisis here and it is being addressed but not well enough. It is almost impossible for people who want to be here and truly invest in the community to make it work. However we are lucky and have sorted it out. Frankly the jackson area isn't a millionaire's playground anymore. It's for the billionairs.

We have definitely had some highs and lows. We grew a lot together moving from a 1500 Sq ft house to 300 in our rv. Sometimes there is always a worry about after "this season" where do we head next. Very nomadic, yes you make friends but a lot of them are for a few months and then never again. We have made some lifelong friends but it can be very isolating. Thankfully we got on with a guest ranch and have done a few seasons here that has given some stability. Jackson is incredible for its food, vibe, skiing, and everything that is at your door step. Don't move here unless you have housing figured out as it is ridiculous. We lucked out and found something through some back channels but this winter a 1 bed 1 bath house hit the market with barely a lot the size of the house for 1.25 mil and a 2 bed 1 bath apartment is on average between 2500 and 4500 per month. But I have LOVED guiding but I definitely see where career guides can burn out, 5hankfully I do a few other things and still find the joy in fishing. Habits that have come out of living and fishing up here... I HATE nymphing. I get it, but it sucks, time on the water matters more than anything regardless of how good you are, and don't ask me where to fish... you won't get the primo spots that I have had to work for. Overall I wouldn't change how we have done things but we are definitely ready for a bit more stability and sense of community.

Oh we are trying to for sure. Still tying a lot but the shop culture up here isn't as conducive to just hanging out as plateau was back then. Good to see you are still on here!

At the start of 2020 I decided it was time to pursue a new career path and some changes. My wife and I sold our house in South KC and bought an RV to live in full time. Let's just say the new career path didn't work out and we started traveling and working seasonal jobs that somehow paid us more than we had been making previously. We have now lived and worked in areas such as Missouri, Idaho, around Corpus Cristi, and have spent the bulk of our time, and settled near the entrance to grand teton /yellowstone outside of Moran WY. It has been a neat ride working various jobs but settling with guiding for almost a year now. We are taking full time work in Jackson starting this fall and putting some roots back down. We wake up every day with a phenomenal view of the tetons and have done so many things I could never even have imagined. Guiding people to monster cutties,, and putting people on bags of sheepshead in texas. We have done some insanely cool things the last couple years and getting to do it before having kids in our early 30s is amazing. But baby number one is on the way and I can't think of a better place to bring up a child. Just adding a little photo documentary. I'd insert more way cool photos but I don't know how this stuff works any more after not logging on for almost two years.

11 pm and i just finished a duck and goose liver pate for a new years eve charcuterie plate i am putting together tomorrow. Going to wait until it chills to really give it a taste as thats how it will be eaten. Had a friend over last thursday who is a big deer hunter and getting into waterfowl. Claims he doesnt like deer really other than jerky or summer sausage. MAYBE a smoked backstrap. Did herb coated loin in the cast iron and finished in the oven and topped with a red wine reduction, seared duck breast shot that day with a smear of rough blackberry jam, miso chili brussels sprouts and a nice cauliflower puree. Made pho from scratch last weekend for the wife and her coworkers who said thats what they wanted for their kindergarten team christmas party / game night. A nice 2 day affair but holy crap was it good. Lastly a picture of a fire steak done with sous vide. 2 hours at 122 then finished and basted in a cast iron skillet.

Been using my sous vide a ton lately, last endeavor was confit'd duck thighs. Absolutely worth the day long cure, and 12 hour cook at 165 or so. Made GREAT tacos with some cilantro, shredded greens, hoisin, and sriracha. Couple days ago I wrapped up 4 gooses breasts worth of pastrami. Cured for 3.5 days then smoked. Was having trouble keeping the temp up so after an hour I finished in the oven. Unfortunately I didn't hear my thermometer beep and they got about 20 degrees too hot. Next time I think I am going to cure them, then cook in the sousvide for 8 hours or so, chill then smoke to get that on there and not over do the temp. Should make the stuff even better.

Anyone have any idea what this feller is?

We had our annual friends Christmas/Thanksgiving party this weekend. I was put in charge of appetizers, and helped my wife with the green bean casserole and deviled eggs. I made a pair of crostinis- Made crisps with a french baguette and had two variations 1. Parsnip and shallot puree base, a couple slices of med rare seared duck breast, blackberry preserves, and topped with some rosemary. 2. Honey whipped goat cheese, shaved radish and arugula, seared duck breast and topped with pickled mustard seeds Both turned out fantastic and a bunch of people who claimed they didn't like duck were going back for extras. Wife did the standard deviled eggs, and green bean casserole from scratch with mushrooms instead of the standard kind with cream of mushroom soup. Will definitely be doing those apps again!

A few years back I got drawn for Pass on Thanksgiving, and Montrose on the day of one of my biggest meetings of the year.. Safe to say I didn't get to use either. This year I'll be in Austin for my step sister's wedding... selfish of her, I know. Half the time I hunt with guys who aren't the most experienced or don't have a ton of stuff. To make ease of setting up, and make sure I get help carrying everything I switched all of my decoys over to Texas rigs instead of wrapped up with strap weights.. Well still using the strap weights but they are now texas rigged and I can tell someone to just grab that group and toss where I tell you to toss. However making and crimping 4.5 dozen worth of dekes hasn't been fun.

Had a big flock of specks above me on Monday, couple of V's, all said and done was probably close to 200 of them flying over the KC area. Never even seen them out hunting but dang do I want to kill a few.

I've been fighting a bad headcold lately and took a few days off work. Had some time to myself at home and thought I'd make something warm and a touch spicy to help clear everything out. served over some steamed rice and naan and with a carrot and zuchini mix in some tomato sauce to bring it all together. Made some butter chicken that was a mix of 3 or 4 recipes I found online, how I usually do my stuff I look up as I like to take what seems to be common and what I like best from each individually. Turned out great, even if I had to go to 3 stores looking for garam masala and never found any fenugreek. 3 days of eating on the stuff has proved its definitely worth making again. I love Indian food and the wife is indifferent. Since she liked this I'll get to sort that itch a little more often now. I was even told that may take the place of a few night's meals this winter that would have been pot roast or chili.

I finally got the ground turkey legs and thighs out of the freezer from this Spring. Decided I wanted to make some sausage from Rinella's cookbook. 2.5 pounds turkey, 14-16 oz. bacon ground in with it, an onion, two honeycrisp apples, (I added some garlic), S&P, cinnamon, brown sugar, thyme, lemon zest and I didn't have nutmeg, so I used some all spice. Mix all the ground meat, spices, and cooked and cooled onions, garlic, and apples together. Form patties, and vac seal to save. Tried some and they are a PHENOMENAL alternative to normal breakfast sausage, the spices sweeten it up a bit, enough fat keeps them together and not dry like a straight turkey sausage. My dad is in the dakota's right now pheasant hunting and half the guys there don't love pheasant meat so I may be getting a few dozen pheasants coming my way to experiment with here before too long.

No pictures as I got called in to work.. Last night did a seared and braised pork loin with fennel, yellow onion, and apples. Seared pork (coated with a thin layer of dijon, salt and pepper, thyme, and rosemary), removed and sauteed vegetables and fruit. Added a cup of white wine, splash of Worcestershire, balsamic vinegar, and garlic for the braise and topped to 3/4 up the loin with stock. Served slices of the pork over top of a bed of mashed garlic cauliflower and topped with braising vegetables and reduced sauce. Something that cooked long, but came together easy was super great and worth 20 minutes of prep time for a dinner. Will absolutely do again.

I'm late to the party.. I run a couple of streamer rods, lines are somewhat interchangeable based on what I am doing. TFO 8 BVK, and a Redington 7Wt Torrent. I fish 200, and 250 Grain streamer express lines. for smaller stuff I fish a handful of cheap sinking leaders that are only 5 foot long that I bought a few years back, good for a 5 or 6 wt. swinging leeches or something and I prefer it to stacking shot and working about breaking a rod because of it. The 7 wt. and 200 grain line can fire into the backing with a 8 inch double deceiver on 2 or three false casts if you are double hauling your keester off.

I wish I was mechanically inclined to know what that meant? What would be the "hub." Told ya I was dumb.

Got a motor question for @fishinwrench or anyone who is able to answer. Boat is a 15' 3" '88 Skeeter pushed by a 70 HP two stroke Tohatsu. About a week ago I was coming out of a creek and bumped something obviously with just the skeg of the motor or just the prop. Felt a small bump but didn't hit hard enough to kill the engine or anything. really seemed pretty minor as I was just idling. With lower water I probably would have seen what was out in the middle of the creek bed. Ran around the small local lake for a few laps at full power, as I pulled back to the ramp i had to go in and out of gear and reverse several times to avoid some dingledicks that were swimming IN the boat ramp from a jetski as I was approaching directly into the sun. At one point when I went to put into gear (forward or reverse) I get power to the engine, but no push in either direction or prop spin. I have checked the choke and the throttle cables, both appear to be in working condition. When I removed the prop on the inside of it there is some rubber looking teeth that bite around a toothed shaft coming out from the lower unit. Both the teeth on the inside of the prop and the shaft are intact with now issues. Was told that it could be a shear pin. Removed the shaft to find a couple of gears, and a pin that came out of the center of a cylindrical piece of metal with gears that would translate power to the prop. When I pulled that shaft a substantial amount of oil/grease came out as well along with what looks like a pin of some sort (6-10 mm in diameter(rough guestimate), it was flat on one end and slightly rounded on the other. I believe it came out from inside the cylinder that is hollowed out? ) and a single ball bearing. Is the grease in this location indicative of an issue or is it supposed to be there and need to be replaced when the gear shaft is inserted back (I don't know if this is the name of it). Just trying to figure out where my problem lies in getting power to the motor, gas flowing, but unable to generate any power to the prop. I'll be taking it to a kid who works for me tomorrow that can take anything apart and fix it (does all of our city truck repair, has rebuilt a few ATV engines and does all our mower engine maintenance as well. He has done some small time stuff and I'd like to start with him before i end up paying money at a marine shop if it is a simple fix, and I am just not mechanically inclined, as I would like to be able to fix this same issue in the future should it arise again.. Because let's be honest.. this boat and motor are older than I am. Thanks in advance for any possible insight. If pictures are required just let me know and I can try to get the grease wiped off everything to try and get a picture.