Tom and Jared:
Your points are both well-taken. Like a co-worker of mine said at a meeting a few years ago, when he was being pelted by two opposite opinions from two very high-level managers, "I feel very strongly both ways." On the one hand, I'm like you Tom, in that I really love good equipment for it's own sake. On the other hand, I have lately found myself holding my Calstar 760H with the ATD 50W, sitting in front of the TV in my rocker/recliner, while watching celebrity fishermen in Minnisota, (guys who have basically the same personality as cornstalks, but without all the charisma) pulling 12 inch walleyes out of holes in the ice, while slapping each other on the back of the overalls, and yelling: "That's a pretty good walleye, there, buddy, by golly, I betcha!"
Maybe I should go fishing, but I think I'll have that ATD 50W anodized with gang grafitti first.
Hope noone here is from Minnisota. If so, I was only kidding--Once an ice hole, always an ice hole.
Russ