WAITING!!!!!!

Don Champion · Post by **Don Champion** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:52 pm

The yard has been filled with Robins for two weeks. The temperatures have been in the mid-forties at night & the mid to upper sixties during the day. The papers are filled with accounts of fishermen catching bass & crappie. Everyone is towing a boat. And here I sit, recovering from rotator cuff surgery in my right shoulder. MY CASTING ARM! The doc tells me I can use it again in May. MAY! That's a lifetime away. Anybody have a cane pole I can use left handed? Do they make left hand models in those?

Reel Geezer · Post by **Reel Geezer** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:40 pm

Don: If you really want a cane pole, I'll be happy to loan you a fiberglass telescopic one until the ORCA Convention, or longer if you need it. Just say the word and it will be in the mail.

Alan Baracco · Post by **Alan Baracco** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:02 pm

Don,

A little tough love from California...I just today read an account of Dick Miller (Langley VP for sales in the 40s and 50s) and a famous distance tournament caster in the 30s and 40s), going to the National Casting finals with a disabled left arm (Dick was a leftie) and using his right arm he won 2 out of 8 events! Like the current country western song goes...do it anyway! Cheers, Alan

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:52 am

Yo Don-Thought some time back I had done the same thing you did (whatever it was that threw out your rotator cuff), but it was merely a slipped fifth cervical disc (well, not "merely" really. Ruined my right arm for weeks). But I finally recovered by not trying to do too much. Fortunately it didn't happen at the beginning of fishing season.

A suggestion: Go to a creek and just spend a few gentle hours, not fishing, but just observing the intricate beauty of flowing water, the antics of birds in the mating season, and other things along and in the creek that get often get overlooked when you are staring at a strike indicator. Amazing how life is enriched by doing such simple things without expecting results like hooked fish. Now do what I tell you and get well soon! Bad Bob

orourke · Post by **orourke** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:15 pm

Bob:

You don't sound so BAD!

Dave "O"

Don Champion · Post by **Don Champion** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:29 pm

Thanks Phil, but I haven't used a cane pole since I was about 13. And Allen if I was to try to cast left handed I would have the worlds worst birds nest every time. I think I'll just stick with Bob's advice. In fact, I had already planned on it. Perhaps this coming Tuesday when it's in the seventies. I'll take a buddy and maybe his dog and visit a few fishing sites.