I caught a couple of largemouth yesterday on a 8wt. Fun enough, but the 8wt was really for stripers, which never came by.

+1 on the “get out there.”

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine