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Happy Birthday Glen and Greg!

Ummmm,.......ahhhhhh........you may want to rephrase that?

Bandy, Post the pictures brother. The intent of the no pictures on rocks, grass, whatever is to do no harm to the fish. However, in the case of your pictures the trout were going to be eaten. So there was no harm, at all, in placing them on the rocks. So in my mind they should never have been removed. I understand why they were removed, I just don't agree with it.

Congratulations Darren!

He's fine. Played baseball last night, 1 for 2 with a fielders choice, 2 RBI and 1 run scored. First game of the year, no practice cuz of the weather and pretend swine flu!

So my middle child (son, aged 13) got the flu last week. I jokingly asked him "how many of your classmates have been to Mexico recently?" He says "two." Crap. So my wife plans to take him to the clinic the next morning as the flu isn't really bad and the odds of it being swine obviously extremely low. On the way in to work the next morning, I see the first headline which talks about cases in Calgary. Crap. So I call the wife to tell her and she says: "yeah, I'm taking him in. He just passed out in the shower." In talking to him a bit later he said his stomach started to ache (blood directed to the stomach), he got a head rush (blood not circulating properly to the brain), and the next thing he knows he hears his mom saying "call 911." She is a nurse and did not feel his pulse right away because it was at like 40. (The clinic people said all that combined with the shower dialating his blood vessels caused the fainting episode, his first.) Anyway, he goes to the clinic and he just has the regular flu. So crisis averted. But there were certainly some uncomfortable moments there!

I grew up with bait casting reels. Cast right (actually both hands on the rod, but right dominant) and reel right. I would transfer either as soon as the lure hit the water, and sometimes during the cast itself. Felt natural. But when I picked up a fly rod, the transfer seemed much more awkward. So I switched to reel left. It did not take long at all for that to feel natural as well.

Bandee, Thanks for this. Hope I get to go there someday.

Nope.

Congratulations Dave! I still got the date right. Much harder than getting the gender right.

Is today April 30? I wonder who could have picked April 30? Come on GIRL!!!!!!! Good luck Dave!

Ryan, The last line is not a threat, it is a religious statement. He is saying that all anyone should really worry about is whether they are ready for death. Pretty sure he is talking about "prepared to meet your maker" from a spiritual standpoint. He is not threatening you. The other clues are "just got back from retreat", and the reference to Noah.

There is a saltwater soft plastic lure series that looks like this. The first time I saw them I bought a bunch and thought of hiding the rest behind other packages of soft plastics so no one else would see them. That way I would have them all to myself and I would be a fish catching machine. 1 month, 1000s of casts and no fish later, I finally wrote them off. I would try them, catch nothing, switch to traditional lures, catch fish, switch back and catch nothing again. Max said "they catch fish somewhere." Well maybe, but I think they catch fishermen everywhere.

Note to self: Never get into a disgreement with polegirl.

Don't ask Hawgstoppah this question, he will mislead you. We were at Bullshead. I was 7 for 7. He suggested I change my straight up hookset to a side set to use the water to help set the hook. Missed a whole whackload after that. I think he was hearing footsteps and just wanted to stay way ahead of me.

While we are speaking of good customer service, here is my best story: I bought a set of Bose 901 speakers in 1981 from a friend. In 1996 I move to Houston. On hooking the speakers up in Houston I noticed a buzzing noise and I figured they had been damaged by the move. I sent them into a repair center, and the guy called me back and said that no, it was a problem with the insulation material that Bose had used in the early 80s that started to fail after many years of use. Bose replaced the speakers with the latest version for like $400 if memory serves. I think the price of new ones at the time was in the $1500 range. Still have them.

I don't believe or not believe in any of the theories. As I said, I'm not informed enough to truly comment. But when I read anything supporting man made input, thousands of studies are cited (slight exaggeration perhaps) including NASA. You guys give me the CEO of a Gas Company and scientists mostly sponsored by other oil and gas companies (or coal companies, or republicans, etc.), and not many of those. I'm obviously using a bit of hyperbole here, which is probably fitting in this argument. For the most part, this whole argument has become boring (and my part in it as well) as it is utterly pointless. The sides have drawn their lines and neither is willing to cross. Too bad. It's been fun, but I think I'll check out of this one for awhile. I'd say forever, but hell, I'll just forget.

Castus, Absolutely not. I don't have an advanced degree, and actually got my undergrad after 8 yrs as a tech in the Navy. My degree advanced my ability to reason absolutely none. Interestingly enough, I was being sponsored to get an advanced degree, but as I was one of a very few engineers who got offered a job (1992 in Alberta), I took it. Having an advanced degree, or any degree at all, does not necessarily mean anything. But I have met some with advanced degree who were wicked smart (had to drop in a Good Will Hunting reference) and many who were perfectly capable of getting a job, yet chose to continue their education. That said, I did not find the speech well written or well reasoned, no matter what his education level was. If I were a advocate of humans not causing climate change, his is not the article I would use to advance my position. If I offended anyone with my tongue in cheek reference to his education level, I apologize. If I offended anyone from Utah Valley State, I apologize. If I offended anyone who believes in Global Warming, I apologize. If I offended anyone who does not believe in Global Warming, I apologize. That cover everyone?

Sun, if you are going to try to convince people that your theories are correct, might I suggest finding someone a bit more scholarly than a CEO of a Gas Company, particularly one with no advanced degree that I can find? Or maybe a speech at a school a trifle more prestigious than Utah Valley State? But his job and education level aside, maybe someone who would not utter this wonderful paragraph: I found the "retaining wall" line hysterical. Can someone add up the amount of beachfront property for me? What about islands near sea level? Just build a big wall, that'll do it! or this: OK, let me turn to the lessons learned by the Economic Crisis of 2008/2009--Leaving the market to decide things for itself is not always the best path to trod upon. And who decides the reasonable standards? Back in the day, the "reasonable standards" allowed companies to do pretty much whatever they wanted to the environment. My home county has 4 superfund sites as a reminder of those times. Basically land that will never in my lifetime be used for anything. Now, we have standards to stop such behavior, but a little too late. I'm sure that economists back in those day said that if we put "draconian" environmental standards on companies, the economic price would be too high. "Let the market decide" would have been their rallying cry as well. Turns out they (the economists) were wrong. As I've said before, I don't have the slightest idea what the deal is with global warming. Lots of conflicting opinions and I do not have the expertise to make sense of it all. But I AM smart enough not to be dissuaded by a rambling CEO of a Gas company at some second rate university (no offense to any Utah Valley State grad on this site). Note: I just looked up Utah Valley State. No advanced degree programs. Some science, no engineering. They do offer a course in Diesel Mechanics though.

I've read Blue Ribbon Bow. I actually lent it to a friend (along with Alberta's Trout Highway) and never got them back. I need to call him! I'll get Western Trout Streams soon.

Happy Birthday Mike!

I don't think the Hawks really needed the help.

Does that mean Bamboo Rods are green? Sorry Don, couldn't resist.

And I'm not arguing that the flames haven't drawn the short end of the stick in this series. I just don't think it has anything to do with the league favoring a US team. Could be that Flames are the perceived aggressor in this series? I don't know, but I can't imagine there is any conspiracy. Edit: Just saw some stats on ESPN: Calgary Penalty Minutes 64 Chicago Penalty Minutes 62 But much of that is the madness at the end of game 3. In the first two games, Calgary had the man advantage 7 times (really 8 because one of those was a double minor) and Chicago had 6 PPs. In the next two games, Calgary had the man advantage 5 times, and Chicago 12 (I did not include any penalties after 19 minutes of game 3) So total series: Calgary 13 man advantages, Chicago 18. But interestingly enough, in all games the team who had the most power play minutes LOST.

I agree with the penalty kill point, but they are sitting back once they get the lead. I would not call it "relaxing" because I do not think it is on purpose. But their playing style changes once they get the lead and I think they really need to keep up the physical play throughout the game. Easy for me to say, it's not my body that is starting to ache all over from all the hits I'm dishing out. I thought Ollie's penalty was a WTF moment when they showed the replay, as was the trip on Iginla late. But do I think that the ref's have it out for Calgary becasue they are Canadian? No, I don't. If so, where was the call on the hand pass? Bert in the crease on the GW goal? People only remember the bad calls that go against there team. They have selective memory on bad calls for their team.