Glad to see you had a good time, Neal.
If you are in need of any new ways of prepation let me know. I don't eat bass much, but I've found a "Broiled Garlic Rosemary Cod" recipie I could pass on to you. (If I can find it. Having to move sucks.)

P.S. Also works well for shrimp/prawns. I know you're in bayou country, but variety is the spice.

Yeaterday was a "catch and release" kind of day using barbless hooks, since I wasn't in a fish cleaning mood, just a fish catching one.

The garlic rosemary recipe sounds excellent - send it my way if you find it in the unpacking phase.

And yes, moving does suck.

Will do.

I knew I liked you. Flying fishing and fine Scotch. Sniff, I'm also jealous. It's still about zero degrees up here and it'll be a few months before the fly rods come out of the closet.

I had a day like that last year. 70 degrees, no wind, the trusty Sage 3-weight and 20 Artic Grayling in about four hours. I think I had to change my fly once.