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Harps is that the same stuff as this? It is very soft so I am thinking not, but I am going to check out GolfTown tomorrow and see what they have. Thanks!

I don't follow hockey much, but the guys in the Centre watch it pretty much whenever we are on night shift. Most of them are die-hard Oilers fans with a couple of Calgary fans mixed in. Even I am feeling bad for them this year. One can only hope they improve so the sound of subdued sobbing does not haunt our office at night.

Lots of coffee and a few doughnuts at Timmy's but nothing from Safeway.

At one time I used adhesive lead tape for forming the bodies because typically I was fishing very deep fairly fast moving water for Dollies. Now with lead not in my repetoire of materials I wonder if the re is a replacement out there.

Ms Strange, ordering online should not be a problem if you check out who you are ordering from and pay via PayPal. One other thing and I only mention it because it is the one place myself and others who shop online do not do anymore is to order from China or HongKong.I mean no disrespect in general it is just that those are the only places we have had any kind of problem ordering from. Just another thought, I have seen the unit I sent you a link for in local craft stores here in Edmonton and I have seen single jawed units in the Dollar stores that may work well enough to help you decide if you could use the more expensive model.

Yep I wonder how that could have heppened Don? Must have been a coincidence I am sure

So you never got shot? Happy Birthday Harps!

I work in the industry and have done so for I think around 27 years. I saw a slight slowdown in things just starting to happen before the Royalty Review came up. Not a large slowdown but the beginnings of one. Not my own opinion, from the perspective we have where I work we see some of this possibly more objectively possibly with a different feel for what is going on. The other fact that we should be cognisant of is that most of these oil and gas companies cannot go to many other places in the world....they are not welcome and pulling out here for even the full $2B would just make poor economic sense. This is a collective $$ amount over the whole industry not to one company. The industry has been getting more than fair treatment to this point, but they are still raping us financially on the market where we pay premium prices at the pump and through our utilities if someone in the upper echalon wakes up with a upset stomach. As an aside here, if you look at how much "extra" our incomes have grown, most of the growth is eaten up by the higher cost of living here. The public has been increasingly wrestless over prices and how much money the province is getting for a non-renewable resource and the oil and gas companies know this. They have been trying to make themselves look a little better over this last year or so, though not on a huge scale, but I believe they had a good sense of things some time ago. Regardless of where this goes I do not believe that jobs are going to suffer as a direct result of the Royallty Review, but even if the Province gets or takes the full value of the reccommendation it does not guarantee that it will be spent wisely. That is our job as the public. If you folks feel strongly about this subject no matter which side of the discussion you are on, write to your MLA it will have some effect. This is a great discussion going on here, but you need to voice your same opinions and arguments to people who are on the front lines and I hope you do, that is how we make ourselves heard out there. Nice that this is such a civilized group of people!

Flytyer, with the Challenge swaps I didn't have too much propblem with losing stuff in the mail (UPS did though!!), but the timeline just because of how most of them work, was very long though 12 of the 13 swaps I have done like this were held internationally and only one was pretty much 100% domestic. Mail reliability as far as delivery time was definitely an issue but the swap just seems to take a lot longer because of the mailing itself and I allow probably more time than people need because I needed to allow for items to reach everyone, which meant Europe/Canada and the U.S. then because what I send is usually very abstract and takes some thought for many tyers so I allow a little more time for that. Tha last few I held went well, though I tried to do two last winter and while the second one was completed it ran well into Spring and was just one too many Challenge swaps in a winter. That being said, there was one quicker swap like this, I think it was Challenge #5, The Recycle Swap, where tyers had to use pretty much anything that would end up being thrown out except! Gift wrap, party ribbons, decorations the usual obvious stuff. All materials had to be cleared by the swapmeister via pm's. I would suggest that this one would work fairly quickly. We had flies made from baling twine, plastic milk jugs etc. Either one would work if there is a will to do one, but the recycle theme is the quickest and depends less on the mail.

Looks good LadyS. There are tools that can help with that third hand thing. I cannot remember what it is called but will look around. Perhaps someone else can help with the tool I am thinking of? Here, I found something similar to what I was thinking of, though not exactly: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Double-Third-Hand-J...emZ170146445627

I use them too.....but my piano playing may not be quite what it should be......

I have Tactics on Trout. The nice thing about the book is that the language comes off from a couple of decades ago but the techniques remain the same. It sure helped me when it comes to reading water! You are leaving tomorrow Birchy? Drive safe.....Kerry

That is probably it. Do you strip your line when you fight fish then? I tend to get them on the reel ASAP unless they are smaller. I think it was Neil Jennings who taught me that.

I have never had that problem when just casting and stripping in and I have had days of a lot of casting...guides tend not to let you slack off too much. Could it be the way you are letting the line slide under your finger? Everybody is a little different I imagine.

There is a tool called Rainy's leg tool which is as you suggested far more than the $1.75 I paid for the one I bought at the other shop.....I never do chiffon, but if we start talking Taffeta well that's another story!

I have the same tool on my desk.....we must shop at the same dress shop???? Did I ever envision a time I might use that phrase??

Now if that isn't a picture of subtlety I do not know what is. Nice job...is the heather coloured marabou sold under that colour name?

Thanks guys! Oh and Ladystrange as well I will give it a try next year since I doubt I will be down that way until Spring.

In my opinion it is usually best to go local if service/price and availability are all fair. For beginners I think this is extra important because at a local shop you can ask for advice and you get to see/touch what you are buying. That being said I also would reccommend Thorne's Manufacturing out of Ft. MacMurray who also carry localy raised genetic hackle from Howards' Hackle in Didsbury if you really need to go outside of the local shops.

You know I have a spool of leader on my vest that will not set a knot. Thae stuff just pulls through and comes undone. Ran down and checked, it is Dai-Riki oddly enough.

I can't relate to heat being a problem. I need to come and watch one of you guys tie with a NorVise. I use two flard stainless bobbins and a couple of the Griffen ceramics but I would have to acquire super powers to be able to generate any heat while tying.

I use ceramic and stainless depending on what I am tying with.

I wonder what dyed olive emu tips would look like for the tail/gills? Or is it too fragile? I like the pattern, but then I love damsels and dragons anyway.

Tiger (Dave) Williams was an enforcer for Toronto and then Vancouver. He could actually score goals as well. I remember years ago Billy Smith whacked a Vancouver player in the leg from behind. Tiger wound up around the centre line and drove Smith into his own net, dislodging the net and creating a bit of a scene.....best part of that game. Tiger was pretty active in the years following his retirement....check him out he was a little colourful during his career.

I have two acquaintances who either have fished or do fish out of kayaks. A friend of mine I grew up with on the Island, built one out of wood and canvas and fished the ocean and lakes. Another fellow I know on the east coast fishes for Stripers out of his.