Hey Man, whazzup between you and gators recently? The football kind or the really ugly kind?
I've been suffering withdrawal symptoms, too. Rockefeller went dead the first of the year, the specklebellies don't want to come see, and it's too early to be fly fishing Lake Martin. And I'm sick of tying flies!
Say, you might consider coming to the Acadiana Fly Rodders conclave on 7 February. It's free, starts at 0830, and I give a program on fly fishing for bull reds at 0900. You would enjoy it (Not necessarily my program but the whole shebang). It's at Grace Presbyterian Church on Roselawn (Left off Johnston coming from the University).
Hope you can make it - I'd like to meet you.
Pete