Experts always have opinions. As they should. Any expert worth his or her salt will have strong views regarding their areas of expertise, and any expert who isn’t opinionated is either holding back or being disingenuous. In fact, an “expert” without opinions likely isn’t an expert at all, which is something you should consider going forward.

With that in mind, I want to share some relatively detailed thoughts about fly rods for trout.

The next morning I got up early and headed to Mikey’s. He didn’t answer when I called so I banged on the door some.

“Jesus, Jarl. It’s date morning don’t you know, just me and the missus…”

“Uh, huh.”

“The Devils’ pawn anyway. Suit up.”

It took him about five minutes, so I figured date morning wasn’t a total wash. On the way up, I explained it to him.

“Case D, Case C was a screw job and you are still stuck in the cross hairs. But now you got two devils.”

“What do you figure?”

“I figure the screwballs ain’t got it, we ain’t got it, and my well-dressed new best friends ain’t got it.” I patted the dog sitting between us for emphasis.

“It’s still on the mountain.”

“Now you got it,” I said.