I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that!

Yes I believe so. That is one guy I would like to fish with.

"I know" he thought it was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1d0aVDPFc&feature=related

That's the old noodling guy, isn't it?

That would be him! did anyone see the one where he was pulling turtles from holes in a pond?

What's a carpet bagger?

I was using the word metaphorically, but here you go:

1. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in politics, esp. so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.

2. Any opportunistic or exploitive outsider.

A carpetbagger has no genuime respect for local custom.

Thanks for the clarification. Coming from the West coast we weren't in the war of the states.

California became a state under the Compromise of 1850. It was admitted as a free state. During the Civil war, California was on the side of the North, although, there were pro South secessionist movements in southern California.

I was going to call you a carpetbagging Yankee, Lil Bill, but Californians are something else. Heck, one in five Californians admit they are crazy. Of course, the rest of the country already knew that.