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I'm in. And I don't think anyone asked FishTales last year.

I was watching American Idol with my 12 yr old daughter (she was crushed when the girl got voted off). When they were doing the montage for the person leaving, I noticed some country rendition of "Home Sweet Home." I complained about it a bit and my daughter said "but it's Carrie Underwood!" Since I've never been much of a country fan, I find it particularly grating when they steal rock songs, particularly classic rock songs. Since my daughter has a bit of rocker in her somewhere (as she isn't opposed to a bit of squealing guitar now and then), I decided to let her listen to the real version of the song. So cue up Youtube and play her the Crue version. She listened for a minute, said "I don't like it" and left. Saddened and feeling a bit old, I turned it up a bit louder. Still sounded pretty good to me, but I was completely struck by: A. How young the boys looked B. They looked way better without all the damn tats (and if they didn't have them in their 20s, WTF are they doing with them in their 40s?) C. Still way better than Carrie Underwood, though she is significantly easier to look at Don't know what the point of this is, but here they both are, judge for yourself. Click here if the movie does not play. and the old, tatted up version

Happy Birthday Glen and Greg!

Hey taco, If you win, can we go cuttie fishing instead? Maybe you can show me how to fish a royal wulff. I hear cutties rise to them.......

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!

I'll open on #12 for $100

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!

Not even close to a pro, but I would like to echo what brownstone said. If it gets you to the middle of the river, or gets downstream at a smaller angle than the angle you hooked it on (assuming an upstream presentation), you are indeed in trouble. But I find it a catch-22 situation. While I don't like loosing big fish, the ones I remember most are the ones that do make it to the middle, or way downstream, and I still land them. Landing a fish that takes you to your backing is just plain fun. I must say that in the VAST majority of the cases I don't land fish that hit the middle of the river. If you want to land them, like stated above, get on them FAST. If the fish is not actively running, then take the fight to the fish. I use a lot of side pressure when doing this, but after listening to hawg one day, and reading brownstone, I may be overdoing this. But it makes me feel like I am participating more in the fight, which I like. I also like to chase fish for the same reason. I think it is fun. However, to me the biggest key is to be confident. If you are worried about loosing the fish, then I think you fight the fish more passively and will land fewer. If you try to just enjoy the fight, and not worry so much about the outcome (like any sport), then your landing ratio will improve. I believe this of course until I loose 5 or 6 nice fish in a row. Then my confidence is shot and I swear a lot. That doesn't work as well.

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.

Chris, If you're not happy about $4.50, how do you think I feel? Taco is taking someone for 1 stinkin' day to his precious little cuttie streams. He's getting $250. I put on 2 1/2 days, and only $200. But if you win, maybe I'll buy me some cake!!

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.

Just wanted to add my thanks to Greg for setting all this up. It shows his commitment to our resource!

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?