Welcome Rick53 to The Fly Tying Bug!

Hi Rick-welcome to an9ther more my age. Where you from-USA or Canada? I retired two years ago-spent six weeks back to my rrots in midwestern USA and Pacific northwest where I was born and got in some fishing-would have been a waste if I hadn,t. Wasn,t as successful as I,d hoped, but could have been worse. Looking forward to your posts

Hello Rick and welcome to the bug

Welcome Rick

I am in Oregon, Byron. I have family in Wyoming and travel about once a year through SW Montana, so want to spend a little time fly fishing that area and Yellowstone after retirement in August.

Hiya's Rick!

Thanks Rick. I was born in Anacortes, WA and lived on Friday Harbor till I was 5 then the family moved to SD. The family moved back to Colville, eastern Wa in 1966, but by that time I was overseas in Germany stationed with the Air Force. Left the AF in 1971 and settled in england with my english wife-lived mostly in London till moved here to the northwest near Manchester in 2002.

I was in Germany from '68 to '71 in the Army stationed at both Schwabish Hall and later at Crailsheim. Flew out of Rhein Main 3 times on C-130's courtesy of the Air Force to Crete to fire a missile. Thought I had seen the last of Frankfurt and C-130's back in those days, but went to Iraq in '05 on a mission to train the Iraqi Police leadership. Once again I was in Frankfurt and flew on C-130's from Kuwait in and out of Baghdad.

Thanks Darwin.

Hi Kim. Where is Cascade, CO?

Hi Rick-you got staioned in Germany the year I was rotated back to the states-Bitburg Flugplatz 1965-1968. It was while stationed there that I met wife Sue when on leave in London in 1967. Did you make the service a career then and were you a security policeman like me?

Nope. I have been in law enforcement for the past 39+ years with 28 as a police chief. I took a leave of absence for 7 months in '05 to work with the Iraqis. Still have lots of friends in missions and would like to go back to see how things have changed in the past 7 years, but it probably isn't in the cards. I've had 2 knee replacements since then and probably can't go now.

Welcome Rick I be north of you in BC see your going to enjoy retirement with a fly rod and have the spots laid out already.I have been semi retired now off and on for 12 yrs still a youngster as apposed to some of the old croneys on this site.

Thanks Chris. Sure isn't anything wrong with being younger and retired. I've never been to BC, but plan to make that trip in a few years as well. Thanks for the welcome message.

You Bet ya Rick it appears we be of the same age and I have been to Oregon a few times last time was in Salem about ten years ago beautiful town but I got food poison at a chinese restuarant wow was I sick for a week kept fishing though

you should be down here now. I hear the steelhead fishing between Salem and the coast is the best it has been in some time. I haven't had a chance to go and likely will wait until the fall after I retire to get out and do some fishing.

Hiya's Rick!

Cascade is near Woodland Park, Colorado... front range. Not too far from Colorado Springs.

And where's your home?

Well Rick me an the wife do not travel accross the line any more medical insurance has become beyond our reach for here it be $350.00 a day for me it is $120.00 a year go figure just a invisable line and relations on both sides of border

Just east of Salem, Oregon. But I grew up in WY and spent some time in CO over the years.