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[RevSmoke]

OK, the package arrived yesterday. It is a 4 piece 10' rod. I am supposed to send mine back in the same box. Mine is a 10.5' rod, but only 2 pieces. Not quite sure how I am supposed to get it in this box. I will call them tomorrow and find out how they want me to do this.

[Remo]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

OK, the package arrived yesterday. It is a 4 piece 10' rod. I am supposed to send mine back in the same box. Mine is a 10.5' rod, but only 2 pieces. Not quite sure how I am supposed to get it in this box. I will call them tomorrow and find out how they want me to do this.

Break it into 4 pieces or send it to me and I'll do it (again)

[RevSmoke]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

OK, the package arrived yesterday. It is a 4 piece 10' rod. I am supposed to send mine back in the same box. Mine is a 10.5' rod, but only 2 pieces. Not quite sure how I am supposed to get it in this box. I will call them tomorrow and find out how they want me to do this.

Originally Posted by Remo

Break it into 4 pieces or send it to me and I'll do it (again)

Just got off the phone with the folks at G. Loomis to explain this dilemma. The service rep said, "What I'm going to need you to do is to break it into 4 pieces so that it will fit into the shipping container." I sat silent for a moment. I asked, "Seriously? You want me to break it into 4 pieces?"
"Yes sir, break it into 4 pieces."

I hung up the phone, and went to go get the rod to break it. As I grabbed it, I literally began to cry. I put the rod down and pulled up a few pictures from fishing trips. I am ashamed to say that the waterworks flowed.

Was this over the rod? Not at all. Nathan's away at college... Tim is in his senior year of HS and looking at colleges. For 12 years we would go over to Algoma/Kewaunee area and fish the salmon run. For 8 years, we would get there on a Sunday afternoon, get our hotel room, fish hard and come home Tuesday night. There were a couple years in which fall sports made it difficult. Last year, Tim couldn't go, so I picked up Nathan at UW-Madison and we took the trip over to the Racine area, but it was a weekend trip with us going to church someplace and me having the day off. And this fall, we did not take any sort of Salmon trip, because I was laid up after surgery.

So, I sat looking at pictures, glancing at that fishing pole, and realizing that this looks like the end of an era. I tried to claim that the last few years were simply flukes. But it truly is the end of a tradition and the loss of innocence.

Maybe breaking this rod and sending it on will help me to prepare for the empty nest that is soon coming my way. But I do not want to. I want those days back! I want my boys to be "boys" again. And yet, I am proud of what they have become.

Hmmm, who'd have thought a silly fishing pole would bring such things on?

Peace of the Lord be with you.