Almost forgot this- I have fished in Wyoming, when Mae and I and our youngest daughter visited Yellowstone, 2 summers after the 1998 fires that raged there- One early evening, on the Firehole, a cub reporter from the Gazette came upon me casting and asked if he could snap some fotos-"Sure, I said"-- I was fishing my favorite 6 wt. rod- a Merrick-Stoner 8'6" one tip (took this same rod with Hardy Perfect reel up to the Bow River in Calgary 2 years before-I managed to catch and release 2 nice fish, on a Dave's hopper--when he asked me my name and where I lived, for the article in the paper, my 'smart ass" side came out- I told him my name was Bernie Schweinfurt, from Princeton NJ-- bingo!!!

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..