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04/16/07 at 04:06 PM ET | Comments (0)
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USA Hockey today named the first 18 players to its U.S. Men's National Team that will compete at the 2007 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Moscow, Russia, April 27-May 13.
"We've got a good mix of players with World Championship experience and younger players who will likely be a part of our program for years to come," said Jim Johannson, senior director of hockey operations for USA Hockey. "Our National Team Advisory Group has done an outstanding job in selecting players who we feel will excel in international competition."
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04/16/07 at 02:08 PM ET | Comments (0)
Thanks to Liz Mullen and the folks at Sports Business Journal, we have access to the most in-depth article on Bob Goodenow in years.
Take some time out and read it today!
from Liz Mullen at Sports Business Journal (normally a paid sub.),
In retrospect, it's hard to say when, exactly, Bob Goodenow lost control of his union, but it may have begun in a very innocent way.
In the early days of the 2004-05 hockey lockout Goodenow, the NHL Players' Association's executive director, attended all the important bargaining sessions, as did NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. That changed about four months into the work stoppage.
"I think they were both involved in the negotiations for a certain point in time," said Steve Larmer, a former NHL all-star who was the union employee in charge of player relations during the lockout. "And then Gary wasn't there, and so [union officials] didn't want Bob there."
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Gaetan Duchesne Suffers Fatal Heart Attack
04/16/07 at 02:03 PM ET | Comments (0)
via TSN,
Gaetan Duchesne, who played over 1,000 NHL games, has died, according to a report on RDS.ca.
Duchesne reportedly suffered cardiac arrest while working out. He was 44 years old.
Duchesne played for five NHL teams in his career: Washington, Quebec, Minnesota, San Jose and Florida. He totalled 179 goals and 254 assists in 1,028 games.
Filed in: Old School, | KK Hockey | Permalink
Lehtonen Will Start Game 3
04/16/07 at 01:55 PM ET | Comments (0)
from the Thrashers Blog at the AJC,
It's back to Kari Lehtonen for game three in New York. Bob Hartley announced today after practice that he's returning to his young goalie, and expects him to play well on Tuesday in New York.
Filed in: NHL Playoff Talk, Atlanta Thrashers, | KK Hockey | Permalink
Inside The Glass Brings It
04/16/07 at 12:45 PM ET | Comments (0)
from USA TODAY,
The NHL doesn't get the TV ratings of the other big five pro sports. But other leagues could learn from the inventive way NBC Sports is using "Inside the Glass" reporters for hockey telecasts.
Rather than the usual sideline reporters interviewing coaches, NBC is putting ex-players-turned-TV analysts into the small space between rival benches. The unique vantage point enables them to brief viewers on who's up, who's down, as well as the insults flying between teams in a hard-fought game.
continued.. at the bottom of page and it is Sean Avery, not Steve…
thanks to a KK member for the tip…
Filed in: NHL Playoff Talk, Hockey Broadcasting, | KK Hockey | Permalink
Phoenix Has To Get It Right
04/16/07 at 12:36 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Al Strachan at Fox Sports,
The first decision to be made in Phoenix must be the one regarding Gretzky. Sources say that he never really wanted to coach, but as the team's most visible asset, his ownership partners leaned on him to become more involved. He wasn't going to play again, and Barnett was in place as GM, so Gretzky had to coach.
But now that Barnett has gone, perhaps Gretzky should take over as GM.
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When Institutions Collide
04/16/07 at 12:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
KK member snafu submitted the following-
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the country's public television and radio broadcaster. The CBC is also Canada's oldest broadcast service. One of the CBC's crown jewels is Hockey Night in Canada, not only a consistently highly-rated program but the world's longest running sports-related production. Recently the NHL and CBC announced a new agreement that allows the CBC to continue the HNIC segment (and certain playoff games) through 2014. The NHL will receive $100 million annually from the CBC.
Filed in: Hockey Broadcasting, Detroit Red Wings, | KK Hockey | Permalink
Not What We Expected
04/16/07 at 11:53 AM ET | Comments (0)
from Scott Burnside at ESPN,
Imagine Snow White and Cinderella are at the big ball, and all of a sudden, you look over and Snow White's dunking Cinderella's head in the punch bowl and Cinderella's poking Snow White in the eye with her tiara.
It's not a pretty sight and it's shocking in its departure from the expected.
Which brings us to the Senators and their grunting, grinding 4-2 victory in Game 3 of their opening-round series with the Pittsburgh Penguins. It left Ottawa with a 2-1 series lead and quelled, for a moment, all talk of playoff failures past.
Filed in: NHL Playoff Talk, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, | KK Hockey | Permalink
Miller Needs His A-Game
04/16/07 at 11:35 AM ET | Comments (0)
from Jerry Sullivan of the Buffalo News,
We won't be at this for even two weeks if Miller gives up too many soft goals. Sure, it's only one game, one bad goal. It's a team game, as Miller is always quick to remind us, and the Sabres are the superior team. They've been a terrific road team in the playoffs under Lindy Ruff and could ease everyone's angst by winning two on the Island.
But it's 1-1 now, and more of a series than most experts imagined. And whether Miller likes it or not, the goalie battle is a big issue. Goaltending is a huge factor in a Stanley Cup series and always will be. Many a Cup dream has gone up in smoke because one goalie caught fire in the playoffs, or because a favorite's netminder wasn't quite on his game.
Filed in: NHL Playoff Talk, Buffalo Sabres, | KK Hockey | Permalink
It's Getting Nasty
04/16/07 at 11:12 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the National Post,
"I could very easily give you a printed picture of the whole incident that would clear it up for you," Wilson growled at the reporter from Nashville.
"I've looked at a lot of tape, and I haven't seen it," the reporter shot back. "Do you have that picture?"
"Do you work for Nashville, seriously?" "Yes, I do," the reporter said.
"Well, good for you," Wilson said. "If you work for Nashville, you shouldn't be in this room."
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Welcome back for the second installment of the multipart article series: Extreme ASP.NET Makeover. In Part 1, we started on our journey to improve an existing Web application, the ScrewTurn Wiki, and turn it into a rich Internet application by applying the latest Web techniques. I talked about brownfield basics—four fundamental software engineering principles that every project should adopt, regardless of methodology:
Part 1 focused on the first three of these principles. This article, Part 2, will focus on the remaining principle - automated testing.
Applying a strong suite of automated tests provides a codebase with a safety net. Developers can modify code protected by tests in relative safety. Method implementations can be changed, class hierarchies refactored, and code improved in a myriad of ways. Automated tests can be run on the code at any time to verify that existing functionality is not broken. Existing automated tests act to prevent regressions from entering the codebase. (A regression is a feature that previously worked, but does not anymore.)
Now why would a development team want to modify working code? There are many reasons:
(Technical debt is a metaphor created by Ward Cunningham to describe the gradual accumulation of friction in a codebase due to quick-and-dirty programming. As technical debt builds, the difficulty in working with a codebase increases. You can reduce this debt by refactoring the code to eliminate duplication, increase cohesion, decrease coupling, etc. Your chances of refactoring code safely increases, thereby reducing technical debt, if you have a good automated test suite acting as a safety net.)
Just like a safety net used when walking tightropes, a suite of automated tests is only as good as its coverage. Having a safety net isn't much use if you fall outside of the net's perimeter or if the holes in the net are big enough to let you fall through. The same holds true for automated tests. If you are modifying code that isn't tested, you are walking a tightrope without a safety net.
We will focus on developer-oriented testing, including unit, integration, and acceptance testing. These terms are often confused such that most "unit tests" are actually integration tests. Developers think that they're writing unit tests because they're using a unit testing framework. What we, as developers, call "unit testing frameworks" are in reality "testing frameworks" that can be used to write a wide variety of test types.
If most developers are actually doing integration testing, what is unit testing? Unit testing involves testing a single component, which in object-oriented terms is a class. With integration testing, we are testing a set of components working together.
There are a wide variety of testing frameworks available for the Microsoft .NET Framework. The most commonly used ones are NUnit, MbUnit, xUnit, and MSTest. All are .NET ports of JUnit, the original Java testing framework. Actually the original unit testing framework was SUnit, written by Kent Beck, for Smalltalk, but wasn't widely distributed. Beck went on to co-write JUnit with Erich Gamma and JUnit did gain widespread acceptance.
ScrewTurn Wiki already uses NUnit for unit and integration testing and we will continue to use NUnit throughout the series. The unit and integration tests apply to business, data access, workflow, and similar logic. They do not interact with the HTML and JavaScript of a Web page. These tests provide us with a safety net when working with the core application code. We are going to examine ScrewTurn Wiki's unit and integration tests in detail in a future article when we talk about refactoring the core application code. In the next few articles, we will be updating and improving ScrewTurn Wiki's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We need a safety net here too and so we turn our focus in this article to automated acceptance tests around the Web user interface.
Acceptance testing is black-box, end-to-end testing of a system to ensure that it meets the needs of the end user. Acceptance tests are often typified by long, verbose Word documents with step-by-step manual instructions, which are performed and verified by the QA department or end users. Here is a simple manual acceptance test:
Verify Administrative Portal Requires Admin Credentials
A typical system will have dozens to hundreds of these tests. Manual testing is repetitive, monotonous, time-consuming, and error-prone. The immediate question that should jump to mind is, "How difficult is it to automate these acceptance tests?" As it turns out, it is a lot easier than you might otherwise think.
WatiN is a Web application testing framework written in C#. It is an acronym for Web Application Testing in .NET and was inspired by WatiR - Web Application Testing in Ruby. To use WatiN, you simply reference WatiN.Core in your test project and start writing test code. It integrates with all of the major .NET testing frameworks. Here is some NUnit code using WatiN:
[Test] public void CanBrowseToMicrosoft() { using(var browser = new IE()) { browser.GoTo("http://www.microsoft.com/"); Assert.AreEqual("Microsoft Corporation", browser.Title); } }
In addition to automating Internet Explorer, WatiN 2.0 (which is currently in beta) can automate Mozilla Firefox v2/v3 and has very preliminary support for Google Chrome. Eventually you will be able to do some cross-browser testing with WatiN, though not cross-platform because WatiN directly automates the browser, which must be running on Windows. We will be focusing on Internet Explorer since WatiN's support for that browser is the most mature.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if software just worked right out of the box every time? WatiN is a bit trickier than most. In getting WatiN running on your system, you have two hurdles to overcome. WatiN is interacting with Internet Explorer through a COM automation API. WatiN is able to hide almost all of the COM-related details from you except for one thing: the threading model. The Internet Explorer COM automation API assumes that you're executing in the single-threaded apartment (STA). This is COM-speak for only allowing one thread to interact with a component. Some test runners use a multithreaded apartment (MTA), which means any thread can access the component. For example, NUnit and MbUnit test runners both use the MTA by default. xUnit, MSTest, TestDriven.NET, and JetBrains ReSharper test runners use the STA. Note that use of a STA or MTA thread for running tests is dependent on the test runner rather than the test framework. TestDriven.NET running NUnit tests will run them on a STA thread, but NUnit GUI running NUnit tests will run them on a MTA thread. To confuse matters even more, MbUnit will override the test runner so TestDriven.NET running MbUnit tests will run them on a MTA thread! This is a long way of saying that you need to run WatiN tests on an STA thread and you better set it yourself to make sure that WatiN can successfully communicate with Internet Explorer. For NUnit, we add an application configuration file called <TestAssemblyName>.dll.config (which in our case is called WebApplication-Test.dll.config) to our test project, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 WebApplication-Test.dll.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections> <sectionGroup name="NUnit">
 </sectionGroup> </configSections> <NUnit> <TestRunner> <add key="ApartmentState" value="STA" /> </TestRunner> </NUnit> </configuration>
On the file properties for WebApplication-Tests.dll.config, shown in Figure 2, change the Copy to Output Directory to "Copy if newer."
Figure 2 File Properties View
If you are using another test framework, you can find information on the WatiN Website on how to properly configure the apartment state.
Just one more change and we'll be able to execute our WatiN tests. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows Vista or later run in Protected Mode by default. Protected Mode prevents Internet Explorer (and hence any Web content running inside it) from modifying your system. It also hinders communication between Internet Explorer and WatiN. The easiest way to disable Protected Mode for a site is to add it to your Trusted sites list. As shown in Figure 3 , I have added http://www.microsoft.com to the Trusted sites list to run our simple WatiN, as well as http://localhost , since we'll be using a local Webserver to host our test site.
Figure 3 Trusted Sites Screen
For more detailed information on WatiN and Internet Explorer Protected Mode, see my blog post entitled "Running WatiN Tests on Vista". For more information on Internet Explorer Protected Mode, check out "Understanding and Working in Protected Mode Internet Explorer" in the MSDN Library.
With the test runner's COM apartment state set to STA and Internet Explorer Protected Mode disabled for http://www.microsoft.com, we can execute the simple WatiN test from above which browses to the Microsoft home page and verifies the page title.
You can learn more by viewing the following video clip.
Now that we have successfully run a simple WatiN test against a remote Web site, we turn our attention to using WatiN to test ScrewTurn Wiki. We won't want to deploy ScrewTurn Wiki to a server every time we want to run our acceptance test suite using WatiN. Instead, we will use the ASP.NET Development Server (WebDev.WebServer.exe), which is better known by its code name "Cassini." It is installed with .NET Framework 2.0 and above in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\. Another option would be to use a local IIS instance, but the ASP.NET Development Server has the nice feature that it can be started and/or stopped by a normal user.
We want to start ASP.NET Development Server before any WatiN tests are run and stop it once testing is complete. Most test frameworks have a method for specifying code to run before and after any tests. In NUnit 2.4.8, we use the SetUpFixture attribute on a class to mark it as containing setup/teardown code for all tests in the same namespace, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 The SetUpFixture Attribute in NUnit
using System.Configuration; using NUnit.Framework; namespace ScrewTurn.Wiki.Tests { [SetUpFixture] public class WebServerRunner { private WebServer webServer; [SetUp] public void StartWebServer() { var absolutePathToWebsite = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["absolutePathToWebsite"]; webServer = new WebServer(absolutePathToWebsite, 9999); webServer.Start(); } [TearDown] public void StopWebServer() { webServer.Stop(); webServer = null; } } }
The WebServer class is a helper class that encapsulates the ASP.NET Development Server. It needs the physical path to the compiled Web site and a fixed port. We need a fixed port, such as 9999, so that we can direct WatiN to browse to http://localhost:9999 in our tests.
The ASP.NET Development Server only listens for requests on IPv4, not IPv6. If you are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, requests for "localhost" will resolve to the IPv6 address of ::1 by default rather than the IPv4 address of 127.0.0.1 and the WatiN tests will fail. To resolve this issue, comment out the IPv6 localhost address in your C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file. This is the line with "::1 localhost".
The Start method for WebServer formats the command line arguments for WebDev.WebServer.exe and launches it using a System.Diagnostics.Process object:
public void Start() { webServerProcess = new Process(); const string webDevServerPath = @"c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\WebDev.WebServer.exe""; string arguments = string.Format("/port:{0} /path:\"{1}\" /vpath:{2}", port, physicalPath, virtualDirectory); webServerProcess.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(webDevServerPath, arguments); webServerProcess.Start(); }
At the end of the test run, the Stop method terminates the Cassini process:
public void Stop() { if(webServerProcess == null) { throw new InvalidOperationException("Start() must be called before Stop()"); } webServerProcess.Kill(); }
NOTE: You might receive a strange error message from the ASP.NET Development Server stating that "The directory '<PATH> /vpath:' does not exist", as we see in Figure 5. This is a bug in the ASP.NET Development Server which causes it to fail if your physical path has a trailing \. To bypass this bug, simply remove the trailing slash in your configuration file or code defensively using physicalPath.TrimEnd(\\) on any physical path intended for the ASP.NET Development Server as I did in the constructor for ScrewTurn.Wiki.Tests.WebServer.
Figure 5 ASP.NET Development Server Showing Error Message
Our goal in writing acceptance tests is to ensure that end user functionality continues to work as expected, as we add features or refactor existing code for better maintainability. Before getting into complex workflows, we will write some simple smoke tests using WatiN to ensure that ScrewTurn Wiki's basic functionality is working. (A smoke test is a preliminary test designed to show simple and obvious failures, such as an error in the web.config file resulting in the site being inaccessible.) Our smoke tests include the actions of:
Note that you don't have to think of everything immediately, but can gradually add tests as you build your test suite.
We'll start out with testing whether a user can log into the site as an administrator. (By default, ScrewTurn Wiki's administrative account is admin/password.) The WatiN script should be fairly self-explanatory. You are finding page elements, such as the Login link, and then performing actions, such as clicking the Login link via its Click method, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 WatiN CanLogIntoSite Test Script
[Test] public void CanLogIntoSite() { using(var browser = new IE()) { browser.GoTo("http://localhost:9999"); browser.Link(Find.ByTitle("Login")).Click(); browser.TextField(Find.ByTitle("Type here your Username")).TypeText("admin"); browser.TextField(Find.ByTitle("Type here your Password")).TypeText("password"); browser.Button(Find.ByValue("Login")).Click(); var username = browser.Link(Find.ByTitle("Go to your Profile")).Text; Assert.That(username == "admin"); } }
The only slightly confusing part might be how to find the page elements. (e.g., How did I know to find the username textbox by looking for its title, "Type here your Username"?) You need your browser of choice and a tool or two, such as Internet Explorer and the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar or Firefox and Firebug/Web Developer Toolbar.
Finding by selecting an element's title isn't recommended because it is more likely to change. For example, the text really should say "Type your username here." If we correct the grammar, however, we break the test. I wanted to create the smoke tests before modifying the site, which is why I left the text as it is. A better option for identifying page elements is by ID. (You can find elements by ID using Find.ById("id") instead of Find.ByTitle("title"). The Find class contains a wide variety of static methods for simplifying the location of page elements.) So while WatiN can automate any site, you can make your tests more robust in the face of change (and language translations) by providing IDs for elements of interest.
The following video clip illustrates the use of the Web Developer Toolbar.
You'll notice a lot of potential for repetition in the CanLogIntoSite test (Figure 5).
As you can imagine, we'll see similar repetition as we write more tests. Let's apply the principle of Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) to our WatiN test.
Let's apply the principle of Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) to our WatiN test.
[Test] public void CanLogIntoSite() { using(var browser = new IE()) { browser.GoTo(PageUrl.Default); browser.LoginAsAdmin(); Assert.That(browser.IsLoggedInAs("admin")); } }
I've created a PageUrl class that is simply a Uri list for pages in the site. I've also created some extension methods on WatiN's Browser class to script out common actions, as Figure 7 shows.
Figure 7 Extension Methods On WatiN's Browser Class
public static void LoginAsAdmin(this Browser browser) { if(browser.IsLoggedInAs("admin")) { return; } browser.Link(Find.ByTitle("Login")).Click(); browser.TextField(Find.ByTitle("Type here your Username")).TypeText("admin"); browser.TextField(Find.ByTitle("Type here your Password")).TypeText("password"); browser.Button(Find.ByValue("Login")).Click(); } public static bool IsLoggedInAs(this Browser browser, string expectedUsername) { var username = browser.Link (Find.ByTitle(title => title == "Go to your Profile" || title == "Select your language")).Text; return username == expectedUsername; }
Not only am I encouraging re-use with my extension methods, I can more readily ascertain what my CanLogIntoSite test does by using concise, meaningful names for the helper methods. I have also eased my maintenance burden because when I do add IDs to the username/password textboxes and correct the grammar, I have minimized the number of changes I will need to fix my tests.
The following video clip shows the smoke tests being run.
Acceptance tests using WatiN are simply longer versions of smoke tests. Figure 8 shows an acceptance test to verify that we can create a new page in our wiki.
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[Test] public void CanCreateNewWikiPage() { string pageName = string.Format("TestPageName-{0}", Guid.NewGuid()); const string pageTitle = "TestPageTitle"; using(var browser = new IE()) { browser.GoTo(PageUrl.Default); browser.LoginAsAdmin(); browser.CreateWikiPage(pageName, pageTitle); Assert.That(browser.WikiPageTitle(), Is.EqualTo(pageTitle)); Assert.That(browser.Url, Text.Contains(pageName)); } }
I created an extension method BrowserExtensions.CreateWikiPage to encapsulate the logic of creating a new page.
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The following video clip shows the build process with acceptance tests.
As we write more acceptance tests, the BrowserExtensions class may become unwieldy in size. If this happens, I can easily refactor the code into BrowserLookupExtensions (for finding information in the page) and BrowserScriptingExtensions (for manipulating the page). I could separate extension methods by public and admin, particular function, or any other means to make the code more tractable.
As we have seen, an automated test suite provides the development team with a safety net. The smoke tests verify basic site functionality (e.g., the site is accessible) while the more detailed acceptance tests verify business-relevant functionality (e.g., visitors can update wiki pages). The automated test suite helps to ensure that working code continues to work as expected. It provides the team greater freedom and confidence to improve the codebase and eliminate technical debt. In Part 3, we will turn our attention to XHTML/CSS improvements and use our smoke and acceptance tests to ensure that we are not breaking the UI during our modifications.
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Hi, Im new to this forum i am curious what is a good starter pole for someone who wants to get into fly fishing? is affordable like $30 good like a wallmart special? or a combo from say basspro or cabelas? or do you recommend something different? or is it better to dive in and spend $500 to $900 for a rod? Thanks for your time Akuriko
What is a "Fly Pole"? Now a Fly "ROD" yes price makes a difference. Do you need to spend a lot to catch fish? No. BUT a good fly line is a must. Sad thing is, a good fly line will run close to $100. But you can cast a good line with a broom stick. You do need to get one that the action works with you. If you whip back and forth fast then get a fast action. If you cast slow and take time, then a medium action is good.
If you don't know how to cast or are a beginner, I suggest getting an inexpensive fly rod, cheap reel and a quality fly line. At some point in time you will be able to feel the differences in fly rods and when you can feel those differences you can make a good rod choice.
Your best bet would probably be to buy a combo from one of the many outfits that offer them. You will get a decent rod, a line that matches it and a reel that is more than adequate to learn with. Use it for awhile until you can develop your own skills and taste enough to step up to something better. Ignore advice that suggest you jump right into a many hundred dollar outfit to begin with. Ive
One more time I will stress A Good Line. This past two months, I have had three gentlemen give me there budget fly combo. Said they tried but could not get it. Too much work. I put a good line on all three and OMG! they are still fly fishing. I taught a class of newbies. One student could not get out more than ten feet. He asked me to show him how. I could NOT get this line to load. By good line, I am not saying you HAVE to spend the $100. I found some Sage line at Sierra Trading Post for $29.00 and it is wonderful!
I started with a 906-2 Cabela's Fish Eagle II combo and it still launches line right up there with my Winston, St. Croix and Sage rods. There are a number of great rod/reel/line combos available and often on great sale prices... pretty good option to get started. After the Passport having come in 5th place in the George Anderson blind test 5 weight shootout a few years ago, I recommended this combo to a friend and my brother and they really like them. They are an import, but I've talked with the folks at RL Winston and they maintain a very tight control on quality. One of a number of good options to be sure, but wanted to give you something specific as opposed to generalities. Have fun with the search and with the new sport. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Fish..._l=SBC;cat104793480;cat104762880;cat105571980
Lessons. I took one lesson with Bob Triggs and it made a world of difference! And guided trips too. The sport is about casting and fishing, not shopping! Equipment wise, buy used rods and reels and many of the "off brand" lines that are recommended to save money if budget is tight.
I don't think you need to spend a lot to get a good starter outfit in today's market. But I would avoid the Wal-Mart special and look for something from a reputable fly fishing brand for better performance, service and warranty. I was shopping for rods last weekend, and cast an Echo Solo alongside several high end rods. I was impressed with the Solo's performance. It held its own against the more expensive rods. I recommend you check them out - the rods are $119, and the packages with rod, reel, and line are $170. Another good value is the Redington CT on closeout if you can still find one. The Winston Passport mentioned above is also a good option, but more money (around $250 for the rod). If your main quarry is trout, I would start with a 9' 5wt. To me that is the most versatile if you are limited to only one rod.
I recently went down this path, so here is my opinion, quality is undersold, quality gear is a greater pleasure to use, maintain and own. The short answer is that casting and catching fish on a 180 combo vs $800 rig is night and day. You would not expect the same experience from a $50 dollar car stereo vs a $500 dollar car stereo tho both play music. Remember why you are fly casting to begin with, it is a nuanced direct connect with the wild. I figure I spent 4x as much on my favorite rod reel lines, as I did on my last tv.
Lean toward the inexpensive, that way if you lose interest you won't be out much. If you like it you'll have a the rest of your life to go gear whorin'
Personally, I wouldn't buy a cheap outfit just because it's cheap. There are plenty of good buys at places like Sportsman's Warehouse, Sportco, and other sporting related outlets. I would spend some time at a shop and look closely. I've seen numerous lower end rods that have been discontinued but are still in inventory and a shop will sometimes cut a deal for the rod, reel and line combination you might put together. The bigger box stores also have lower end reels available that are quite serviceable but my coice would be a local shop that has people who know what they are alking about and can fix you up for way less that $400 or $500. Theat way, when you want to step up to something a little better, you already have a connection. You can also get lessons at the small shop whereas they probably aren't readily available at the bigger stores.
You have to watch it when it comes to real cheap combos. The really low end ones have the bottom of the bucket rods, reels and lines (make sure it comes with a WF line not a level line). I would suggest talking to your local fly shop and let them set you up. Get a decent rod that, if you stay with it, you wouldn't hate it in six months... and spend less on the reel. A good line is important but most moderately priced lines will work and will be good enough for now. Any combo's under $100 aren't worth buying. Casting lessens are something to think about and you're local fly shop should have them, add that to the gear you get form them. Redington has some decent combos (Crosswater, pursuit and voyant) are between $100 and $200 and would get you started with good stuff and great warranties, of course all the manufactures have there own starter combo's. Good luck. Mark
My first set-up i bought from sportsmans wearhouse. It was called the Ross essence elite I belive? found here --> http://www.rossreels.com/outfits/essence-elite-fly-fishing-outfits.html... I think I paid around $300 for it OTD. It will easily get you going, I bought the 5 wt and used it for almost two years before buying a second rod and reel.
I respectfully disagree. You can get plenty of enjoyment out of an inexpensive rod combo. I've fished with my friends Sage XP 4wt and my own older Redington Crosswater 3/4wt and the pleasure of small stream fishing with either was about the same for me. But conversely, I did used a Kabuto 3wt glass rod once and it was flat out awesome but it cost over 10X what most of my rods cost me. I think the quality of rods at the entry level are now quite good and have vastly improved over the last 10 years I've been paying attention. For a newbie to the sport who is still learning to cast, they are most likely incapable of being able to utilize a premium rod in a fashion to realize what an experienced caster would experience with it. I've seen plenty of people with high end rods that couldn't cast to save their lives. Instead of that $800 rod in their hand, they would have been absolutely fine and dandy with just a $60 Redington Crosswater, which is fine rod. In the top pic below I used a $40 Eagle Claw Granger XG rod, the entire combo with line was obtained for under $90. I've also caught a 34" Redfish with it. In the second shot, I used an old South Bend Glass Pack Fly Rod. That entire combo set me back less than $75. I'm not saying anyone should buy either of these rods, they admittingly have their limitations. But one can have a lot of fun and enjoyment and not spend very much in the process.
I think a lot depends on your casting style. My pace is relatively moderate, and while I can definitely appreciate the superior performance of premium rods, I can't recall a single slow day of fishing where I decided the reason I didn't do better was because I had a sub-par outfit in my hands. I have a couple premium rods in my quiver, but the only way I was able to justify buying them was finding them via Craigslist and a sweet consignment deal at my local fly shop. They're a pleasure to fish, but my cheapies catch me just as many fish. For someone starting out, I highly recommend buying a Cabelas Three Forks or Wind River rod. The per-assembled outfits they sell in those lines are actually pretty decent fishing tools, but the reels that come with them are absolute pieces of shit. Even with that said, while I have endured several failures of those reels' function when stripping off line and while fighting fish, I have yet to lose a fish because of them. Mind you, these are trout outfits; NEVER fish salmon or steelhead with a crappy reel. Reels aside, those rods cast great (in my opinion), even if they are mass produced "overseas," and on sale, they go for about $30-$40. The outfits are usually under $100, tax included. I suppose what I would consider a solid starting outfit would be an inexpensive rod, matched with a "decent" reel (read that as "containing no plastic parts, handle excepted") and a good line. A floating, weight forward Cortland 444 is a classic, solid performer at a moderate price point. Ask about factory seconds, too. Every once in a while, you can find a great line for pennies on the dollar that way. You shouldn't have to spend over $175 to be "in the game," at least for trout, and realistically, you can get there for less than $100. When you get better and can appreciate the virtues of premium outfits, assuming you've got the money to spend, they start to become more sensible purchases. The main difference I notice when casting premium rods is that they tend to throw more line more easily, probably due to their faster actions and superbly-engineered tapers. They're nice, for sure, but they're much more a luxury than a necessity. 30 years into my hobby, I still fish mostly middle of the road stuff.
As others have pointed out, there are many good inexpensive rods and combos on the market today. You can't really go wrong with one that comes from a name brand (e.g., Redington or even Cabelas). Bear in mind that, if you persist in this sport, you will eventually want another rod (and another, ...) that will work better for specific needs (bigger fish or bigger rivers, salt water, etc,). So, buy something today that you won't be looking to replace when you get a second rod, but rather have your second rod be for a different line wt, or different purpose. Dick
Check out Craigslist. I have found many great deals on more "expensive" rods that someone just didnt use and is trying to get rid of...
Just buy the Best you can afford, You wont be sorry. There's lots of good deal's in the classified's. Look for a medium action fly rod for starter's.
Just so you use the right terminology, a fishing rod and a fishing pole do not mean the same thing in the USA. They are interchangeable in Great Britain. A fishing pole has no guides and no reel seat. The fishing line is tied to the end of the pole. So the first Macedonian fly fisher thousands of years ago used a fishing "pole." Today we refer to Tenkara "rods" but really they are Tenkara "poles." Fishing rods are what most of us use with line guides and a reel seat. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fishing_rod


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Can this medication (AZO, Phenazopyridine),cause a racing heart beat?
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Are you beu=ing trated with an antibiotic? Azo over the counter is great for helping with the buring and cramping pain but you must treat it with a anti-biotic if you hare not being treated call you doctor now and they will prescribe an anbtibiotic. They can not dip it now becauce your urine is probably orange alreay from the Azo. So call you doctor they are on call 24/7 and with mostly always treat a UTI on a weekend over the phone. I hope this helps I get them all the time and they are not much fun. I Hope this helps and I hope you start feeling better soon. Good Luck and God
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Finished in a cool teal shade, this compact tub chair adds a touch of retro-chic to any home or office. The chair is covered in a soft linen-effect fabric and has a comfortable foam back and seat filling. Simple stitch detailing, curved arms and angular wooden feet complete the look.
Feet must be attached after delivery. Please measure access via corridors, doors and stairways for all large and heavy items.
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PUBLISHED: 23 Feb 2012 00:05:48 | UPDATED: 23 Feb 2012 12:30:18PUBLISHED: 23 Feb 2012 PRINT EDITION: 23 Feb 2012Skilled Group says the positive trend in the labour market has continued into the new year, boding well for the company's efforts to sustain its much improved financial performance.
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Companies | Skilled Group Ltd |
People | Mick Mcmahon |
Topics | Employment & Industrial Relations, Company News /Earnings & Reporting |