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I don't know about the culture, or lack of it here, but I will say this. I work for a large, multi-national company. We employ people from all over the world and transfer them all over the world. The problem with transferring people in to Calgary is the fact that very many of them never want to leave. And some will leave their company instead of transferring out. I've lived in some pretty nice places in my life. Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, Orlando, San Diego, Honolulu to name a few. You couldn't drag me out of Calgary, I'm here for the duration. May not be the most cultured place in the world, but trust me, culture ain't everything. Edmonton may be more cultured (I've lived there too), but I actually find it funny anyone would rather live in Edmonton than here. I love Edmonton, and have lots of really good friends there. But please! Great fishing, great mountains, great golf, good food, loaded with pretty girls (I married one). Exactly what else could anyone want?

Glad to see it turned out good for you guys Saturday!

Exactly. I was showing a guy how to nymph fish the other day, fishing a very nice looking little seam. I was demonstrating how to mend line, and mended several times in one cast just to show what I was talking about ("this is an umpstreaam mend, this is a downstream mend"). All the while the indi is staying nicely just inside the seam. On about the 5th mend I felt a pull back and a couple of minutes later landed the 18" rainbow. Moral of the story is: If you are fishing where they are, you always have a chance. Learning to read the water (fishing where they are) and learning how to present (which I certainly wasn't doing properly in the story above) is way more important than having the perfect fly on. There are so many good books out on how to read water, and how to fish different circumstances. Get one and study it. Once you have that figured out, you will learn that the exact fly you have on is less important than you think. Good Luck!

Wouldn't have been so bad if I had been catching anything, you arrogant little.......

Just curious, but isn't that called fraud? Or robbery? And yeah Ryan, I noticed.

Pelican. Not with a fly rod though. Awesome fight! Stringer with 10 live fish on it. In the literal middle of nowhere, Louisiana.

Brian, I totally do not believe that last statement! I often fish in 1 to 3 hour sessions. 10 fish landed for 3 hours is a GOOD day for me. I would peg the average somewhere in the 6 range, maybe a touch less. Again, that is for me. But to the guy who says the numbers are exaggerated, I can honestly say I don't get skunked that often, assuming I'm out for more than 1 hour. It certainly happens from time to time, but it is rare. You can usually find something that works for at least one eager fish! I will add that I typically fish water I know pretty well, and have a pretty good idea of where fish should be in most conditions. Helps when you are casting to where they will likely be.

From the Vancouver Sun: From what I've heard, this may have the effect of lessening the amount of diving, so that the ref's will take an injured player more seriously. As to soccer, never been my cup of tea, but I do recognize that it is the worlds most popular game and is loaded with some of the best athletes in the world. I do watch a few world cup games every year and every year I see things that take my breath away.

Everyone is fine. I do have an old HS acquaintance that lost her car and anything that was outside (mowers, weed eater, bikes, etc.). I'm not sure about insurance. My bet is that the skis were insured, but I don't know if they are insured against flooding. The home certainly would be, but no damage to the house. Don't know about the landscaping, decks, stairs, etc that were surely washed away. Probably not insurable would be my bet, but I don't know that. Streamers tight to the bank would certainly yield some nice feisty largemouths!

This is the backyard my sister's house in New Braunsfels, Tx. To give some perspective, we were diving off the top of the boat house last summer. It's about 10 ft to the water usually. The boat house is that thing by the tree that the boat is tied up to instead of inside it, where it belongs. The river rose 9 ft in a few hours. Both of the jet skis were lost when "debris", which was part of a roof I think, ran them over. The boat survived. They have only been in the house a couple of years and just got done all the landscaping. Looks like they'll get to do it all again! I do like the RV shot. Just think, one flood like this in the SW and we could eliminate 100s of "squatted" RVs!

Frankly? Waiting until July. I can only swing so many trips down south, so I'll wait for clearer and lower. It's hard though!!

A discussion of BP's liability. I'm no legal guy, but it appears it is essentially unlimited: BP Liability

I don't know how many times I've looked, and I can never find that Frenchman's Creek!

I too have a 5wt wind warrior. Ovelined with a 6. I used it exclusively on my last lake trip and loved it. Currently it is my go to on the Bow as well if there isn't anything on surface. Great rod at a great price.

Wonder where they got that idea?

All rivers make it to the ocean eventually, except for the one's that get irrigated to death.

This is a few days old, but interesting.BP's Plan

That would be great, thanks.

Anyone here ever go outside of Canada to get ACL surgery? My wife blew out her ACL skiing this winter. 8-12 months to get an appointment to see how long the wait for surgery will be (man, I love it here, but this health care wait for "elective" procedures blows). So we are likely looking at 2 years before she can get cut. Looking for alternatives outside of Canada, or pay to play clinics in Canada. Anyone have any experience?

I'm all for keeping out invasive species, but how cool would it be to have Palm Trees on the Bow? That would be awesome. Just like a little piece of Hawaii in Alberta. I bet they are not susceptible to Pine Beetles either! Win/win!!

So could mv.

Maybe all those coconuts are somehow associated with car washing in the driveway? Hello tempest. Meet teapot

I've seen maybe 10 or so? I'm pretty sure they are biodegradable, you know, being organic and all. If the odd coconut gets tossed in the river for a religious ceremony, I can't really see the harm. It's a coconut. Not like they are tossing in golf balls. That would be a problem.

Hey Pete, sorry I missed this. Happy belated!

Happy Birthday Max!