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Hey Ryan, I refuse to go the spandex route. I did get a pad for my seat and that seemed to help. Butt isn't sore anymore anyway. You will want to get a breathable rain jacket and pants I think. MEC has them (back to the original topic) for some ok prices. I actually ended up ordering mine through a company in the UK. Cost around 140 for the jacket and pants. Once they arrive I'll give you a review. If you wear anything unbreathable (like my golf rain pants), you will burn up. Leg is sore, but I can live with it. Rode in today, so it can't be that bad.

Very nice.

There are down sides. They have closed the trail just before the bird sanctuary. The signs for the detour were pretty poor, so 3 of us (who were all at the closed trail trying to figure out which way to go) decided to just go through the train yard, then thru Inglewood. Worked great. In the afternoon, I decided to try the true detour route, but it frankly sucked hiney. So today, back thru the train yard. Coming home, I entered the yard and there was a BIG private property sign. I figured since they hadn't stopped me two times before, I'd be ok (which is really against character for me, I'm a rule guy to tell the truth). It was a bit wet, and one of the set of tracks crossed the road at an angle. My front tire hit the rail and just slid right out on that angle. I learned that road rash hurts way, way more at 51 than it did at 12. I learned that nice golf wind jackets do not stand up well to sliding down the road, much like both my legs and my right elbow. Gloves however are FANTASTIC pieces of equipment! And maybe the real detour does not suck as much hiney as I thought.

But do they have a dock that I can drive my jet boat, if I had one, right up to and exchange the rod?

Nice, buddy! Mine is a urban style bike as well, but with more road type tires. I'm sure you will love it. I'm actually surprised how much I am liking the riding. I started out at about 15 KM each way, and I'm up to around 20 each way now. Been riding pretty much every day, except one day when it was absolutely pouring.

Wish there had been more. As I said, I had planned to go. But hell, I'm damn near 60 as well.

Not trying to dissuade you from your opinion. No chance I could do that as you had a bad experience. I'm just stating mine soothers on this site can see another side from a satisfied customer. And I know a few of the guys on the front end of Amundson. I would disagree with your opinion that they are donating for advertising. While of course they get good press for it, I would counter that they don't sell many rods by donating to a couple of obscure fund raising events. Some companies seem to try to give back. My experience with Amundson is that they are one of those companies, or at least the people I deal with are. In other words, I stand by my opinion as well.

Damn. I wanted to go, but a work event I could not miss came up. Anyone make it there?

Didn't Chicago absolutely hammer the Canucks one game? Or was it San Jose? Can't remember, as both went home long ago. Boston can't hang with Vancouver. Not deep enough. They got their one huge effort game in a game Vancouver did not need. Reality is about to come and slap them right in the face. Or maybe stick a finger in their mouth. Whatever. Edit: I mean, obviously after the beat down in game 3, no chance Vancouver can recover. I should change my opinion again sometime in game 5 I'm sure.

I've always been curious as to what 4 wt reel people recommend for using while fishing from a jet boat.

3 rods, 2 reels, no problems. Oh, and multiple donations to various local fund raisers as well. I have nothing but good things to say about Amundson. Wish every rod company supported the local fishing community so well. And in the interest of equal time, TFO does a great job of supporting the local fishing community as well.

My son and I are signing up as well. I've never fished any of those streams, so it will be fun to walk some new water and hopefully help them regain their potential.

That's fantastic!

I make a big buy at Icky every year. I use them for all my "stock" flies.

I wanted to post this pic from a fish I caught at a neighborhood pond yesterday afternoon. This is to show the difference between a lake fish and river fish. While this girl is pretty fat, she is not the fattest one I've caught in this lake. I did not get a measurement on her as she was pretty damn difficult to handle, as you can see. I hesitate to guess and her girth makes her seem longer than she is. Lower 20s would be my guess and definitely 4 lb or more. Sorry for the arms extended photo and the fish not behaving itself. As I said, she was tough to handle. My buddy's daughters wanted to keep it to eat. I told them we would keep a smaller one. Haven't caught a small one yet, hopefully that continues!

I used to go there a lot when I was just learning. It is a great place to learn to cast, with willing fish to boot.

I would do the "Alberta Trout Highway" trip from GP to as far south as I could get.

If you are fishing a 300 yd stretch, there is no problem coming back to the starting point. Most/all spooked fish will return in far less than an hour in my opinion. You can fish exactly the same water if it has been over an hour. I can't imagine working the same 20-30 yds for hours. But I love those people. They leave so much more water for the rest of us.

Hey, aren't you in Florida? Those redneck's got internet and everything?

Damn. If you ever want to totally hijack a thread, Kirk and Bones can sure do it. That was hypnotizing! Back on track--Marc, all I can afford is inexpensive, ill fitting clothes. My kids take all my clothing cash. I can assure you nothing they have (or at least nothing my oldest son or daughter have) is either ill fitting or inexpensive! And I don't think your body is all that weird. Ok, maybe a little weird. I did buy a new backpack with some venting to try to limit sweaty back syndrome. It seemed to fit ok!!

Ok, so to turn this into a bike thread (I hijack everyone else's threads, I can certainly hijack my own): I think I'm going to be getting one of these Giant Seek 3 through a fly fishing contact. Bike is in excellent condition, I'm getting it for $200. I rode it in today and it sure was easier than my mountain bike.

Yep. True story: Rode in the crappy ass rain this morning. Stripped off the rain pants (I had shorts on underneath) and thought "what the hell is that swollen thing next to my knee?" then noticed my other leg was swollen as well. What the #@$%? Then realized they were the bottom of my quads. Hello quads, nice to see you again. It's been awhile.

Since moving to Calgary, I've heard lots of people talk about MEC. I'd never been there myself, just didn't see the need. Well, since I've gotten into the riding to work thing, it became obvious I needed some new gear. Since it's only 8 blocks or so from work, I walked over. Uh oh........I can almost feel the money leaking out of my wallet. Kid, meet candy store. So now I have a fly shop 8 blocks in one direction and an outdoor mecca 8 blocks in the other direction. I am well and truly screwed.

Come on Paul. Sod farms have been around since I was a kid, long before the generation of instant gratification!

I have had the opportunity to test out the new Greys GX300. It is a cast aluminum large arbor, entry level reel. It retails for like $69.00. It was given to me because I am notoriously rough on equipment. I've only had it for two weeks, but I'm not giving it back. Super smooth drag, almost (or maybe just as) smooth as my Bauer. I landed a 24" really feisty brown with it this weekend, and it performed perfectly. I'm not saying it is a high end Hardy reel, but I would buy one of these in a second. In fact, if I am forced to give it back, I'm buying it instead. I know Hanson's and Southbow carry Grey's, not sure who else.