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Saw this and thought it would be good for a New Years resolution (I know I'll never make it to the gym or fishing down to S. America...) 10 Ways to Fish Green GFF lists ten things we all can do to be more green By Steve Schweitzer From Global Flyfisher at: http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/10waysgreen/ You've heard it from so many sources...live green, do green, be green, green this and green that. The green message is as much marketing hype as it is reality. For the partners at GFF, this made us think how the "green" movement affects flyfishers. It's common sense really...and the if you sit down to think about it, fly fishers have been practicing "green" since the beginning of the sport. But just to be sure, we at GFF have developed a list of ten things we all can do to be more "green" as fly fishers. Call it by any name you want, but being "green" as a flyfisher makes just good conservation sense. We feel the list below contains the most important items, but there are many other ways to be a "green"-conscious fly fisher. After reading this article, consider adding your Fish Green idea at the bottom of the article using our comment form. Your comment, along with those from the thousands of other readers that visit this site daily, will make the most comprehensive list of fly fishing conservation tips for others to read, learn and enjoy. So, on with the list... #1 Pack Out Tippet NEVER discard tippet streamside, no matter what the length. Put excess tippet and old leaders in a spare pocket, then throw it away or recycle it properly when you are home. Some streams and lakes now have monofilament line recycling cans. Or, consider leading the charge in placing recycling bins in your area. #2 Pack Out Split Shot Read this article to get ideas for alternatives to using lead in flies http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/deep/ NEVER discard split shot into the water. Remove them and re-use them. Keep them tucked away in a plastic ziplock bag in your vest. When they’ve reached their useful life, discard or recycle them properly. #3 Minimize Synthetics Consider fishing flies with little or no synthetics at all. Use only materials that nature gave us. If you loose the fly, they’re designed to break down naturally. Isn’t this how fly tying began anyhow? #4 Walk Minimize the use of your personal vehicle; ride a bike to the stream, take public transportation, share a ride, walk the extra mile. Do whatever it takes to minimize the use of fossil fuels #5 Tread Lightly Respect the habitat in which trout food grows. Stream and lake bottoms all contain essential habitat and nutrients for nymphs and small bait fish. Don't walk through a cress-laiden stream to get to the other side. You just destroy the scud-laiden cress which took all season to grow. Don't trapse through a slough of a stream just to see what's going on. You destroy silt in which burrowing mayflys live. Don't walk on stream improvement structure. When you walk through a stream, if you splash, you trash...be gentle...you get the picture... #6 Reuse Bottles Re-use water bottles . Most of us carry a liquid refreshment while fly fishing. Instead of buying a bottle of water and discarding the bottle when you are finished, keep it, fill it up and use it for the next trip. Imagine if those same 10,000 people in #5 all re-used 1 water bottle for just one time; yep you guessed it…that’s 10,000 less plastic bottles sitting at the bottom of landfills. #7 Pack Out Ciggy Butts Pack out cigarette butts . Cigarette butts are the most littered item worldwide according to cigarettelitter.org. For those of you who smoke (and you shouldn’t to begin with for obvious reasons, but I digress…), carry a small baggie in your vest and put your cigarette butts in the baggie. Ciggy butts are not biodegradable. “Cigarette filters have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds, whales and other marine creatures who mistake them for food ... Composed of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, cigarette butts can persist in the environment as long as other forms of plastic", says the Clean Virginia Waterways organization. Better yet, get your own free personal ashtray by visiting http://www.cigaretteLitter.org. #8 Clean Equipment Thoroughly clean your waders and boots. Several issues that affect our waterways are now becoming pandemics: whirling disease and New Zealand mud snail (and other aquatic nuisance species) to name a few. They are easily transported in the felt of wading boots and on the surface of waders. #9 Collect Trash Make a habit of picking up at least one piece of trash on each flyfishing adventure. Let’s put some numbers behind this concept: let’s say that just 10,000 of the hundreds of thousands of visitors to this site each year, pick up one piece of trash on each flyfishing trip. Let’s assume they fly fish 10 times a year on average. That’s 100,000 pieces of trash picked up with hardly any effort at all! Just imagine the volume of garbage we are saving from contaminating the waters we all enjoy. Now, imagine if we made a point of picking up several pieces of trash on each trip….whoa!...now we really are making visible strides. Make a habit of carrying a kitchen-size trash bag in your vest, fill it up as you see trash streamside and discard it properly when you return from your trip. It’s as easy as that. #10 Educate And what’s the most important thing you can do? Educate those around you of the nine things above (& of the list of ideas below, shared by our loyal readers). Send them the link to this article. ***And stop feeding ocean fish to pets...

Andrew, you still planning on going out??

I bought the one pair last year... red lens, excellent in low light... then I broke them and bought another as a back up... now I use the grey tint lens as the primary and red lens as an option. Your eyes are worth the best protection you can get.

This is a quick public thank you to Maui Jim! I sent in a pair of singlasses for repair with a MO to pay for shipping them back. I expected to get dinged for the repair also (my second time sending them in... gotta stop leaving them on my desk under a pile of books). They were back at my house in a week and the money order was returned with them! Very quick (even during the xmas rush) and no questions asked... Can't ask for better service for an excellent pair of shades!

Come on, come on... It's Christmas!!!

Andrew (Dr. Bulltrout) has a tying demo up on Youtube. It's one of his flies of the month on the Lethbridge local site.

I'm buzzing with curiosity (and too much coffee). Come on somebody... help him out so I can find out what he's making!!!

I'll be there, no matter what the weather is. If its too cold to fish... campfire and hot chocolate.

Wow... That is alot of stone-eye dead trout... That fish in pictures 220-222 was handled for at least 2 full minutes on an August day... I'm guessing it thrashed into deeper water and procceeded to die. Fish #98 ... I'm sure it'll swim away fine. Fish #240 is in spawning mode, with tail worn and caught mid Nov... they sure caught alot of fish that day at that spot... #247 is dead, I hope they at least ate it. #258 is dead... damn shame (I don't know where it is so I won't comment further except to point out Bear spray). #272 is dead... white spots, mountain lake??? http://www.mycyberimages.com/gallery/index...27&page=all Okay okay... the vast majority of those fish are mishandled, many will die, the worst part... they are teaching those kids with them Sportsmen like these disgust me! Envy1234, nice troll, but it's jackasses like you and these guys that give groups like PETA all the right to criticize the sport. It's a sad world that we live in if you've been writing in fishing rags for forty years... why don't you let us know which ones so we can point it out to the editors, Beeatch. Of course NFLD has less fishing pressure than Alberta and based on the last survey, but: 6 mil fish kept of 8.3 mil caught in NFLD (72%) 1.6 mil fish kept of 12.3 mil caught in Alberta (13%) Leave the catch and release expertise to the Albertan's on the board. [edit]The NFLD stuff is tounge and cheek and I don't mean any offence to those from the rock. Just making a point about assumptions of backgrounds.[/edit]

QL's 1,2,&3 for armoured in 1997. Southern Alberta Ligt Horse Reserve (Changed from Recce to light Armour in 97). Great experience, was even in a riot involving British and US soldiers... great. For some reason, I had misplaced the memory.... Nightmares last night of tretments, thanks guys. Back to therapy I go.

That is only funny because I did my QL's in that hole... Wainwright i mean. I had completely forgotten about Bridget the Midget

This is the stuff I want to avoid: http://www3.pipsc.ca/portal/page/portal/science/issues Harper's already cutting gov't depts that look out for the health and safety of Canadians. But who needs safe food (or fish habitat)?

Bingo!!! Most of this thread is Blah Blah Blah. I say down with the Cons. They have wasted our time and money.

Happy birthday! 6-0... only 5 more years to free fishing! Have a good one!

Doesn't matter what they do on the Skeena now... This post made my day!!!

These are all with Pentax (WR33, W10, and W30)> http://picasaweb.google.ca/pharps/Fish# I'm all for Pentax... Excellent Macro, wide angle lense helps capture the shot with poor aiming conditions, perfect size, and great focusing. Lining up the shot takes practice and you have to move in slowly so as not to panic the fish (a fish held upside down in the water with little pressure won't struggle). You can manually set the focus first on the pentax or just snap a pile of shots. You can also get a picture of the fish while its resting... no hands, if you are a fish ninja... quiet gentle handling, no removal of the fish from the water and a slow release. I think the best shots are unique angle, fish swimming away, head on, low from the side, etc.

oh oh oh oh... or better yet . . . . . . A Carbon Tax on Christmas lights!!!!

Christmas lights cause Global Warming... but not in winter, only summer warming. I vote to ban Christmas lights. Bah Humbug!

Snap The link on th AO board is from Jan 08 and links to the new one on this site (revised May 08) I wonder why the differance?

Licences won't weed out bad guides, just like they haven't weeded out bad drivers. There is much more important things than somebody getting ripped off with a bad guided experience. Guides teach people to fish and are an excellent place to start good habits for anglers like proper fish handling, fish ID, and following regulations. Guides also spend a large amount of time on rivers and see things. As they are making money off of our resource, its only right that there is some sort of reporting mechanism in place. Plus O&G, forestry, and mining industries pay royalties/taxes... guides buy lunch?!? I asked Ted Morton these questions on October 1st (with no response yet): Of course, Weedy sums it up with much more class: http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?...ost&p=66836

New Sexyloops Video... coming soon http://www.sexyloops.com/trailer/revolution_trailer.wmv Being touted as "The best fly fishing film ever". (its gggreat) at: http://www.sexyloops.com

Except for... Fishing classified waters is what... an extra $20 a year for BC residents? Cheap (10 coffees, 4 if you drink starbucks). I think we could bump licences up to $30 for residents; $60 for non-residents (+ a 3 day/week licence option); $70 for aliens (+ a 3 day/week licence option); $5 for senior residents... need to keep track of whose fishing; $??100 for an annual guide licence, plus they must keep records (and depending where they fish pass an ID test plus Angling Education course like Hunters do). If Joe angler can afford a guide he can afford an extra $5 a year, plus kids under 16 should get a free province wide C&R licence... pay if they want to keep or fish with a guardian. How is that making fishing not affordable?? And how does making guide get a licence hurt the Average Joe poor angler and his kids? We shouldn't have to donate to a non-profit org to protect or resources (a Legislated RESPONSIBILITY of the Alberta Gov't!!!!!!)

This thread sucks More Chuck; Less penis cutting.