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Na, if myself woulda won, I'da demanded a redraw... If myself woulda won, I'da kept the dealybob :huh: To quote John Anderson; When I drink brown liquor, I get crazy quicker than a old red fox on the run :ph34r:

Damn... and I gave myself two chances too Good goin' Lynn

Got about 300 days in the Deluxe Breathables and they're still hangin' in there.. other than about a tube and a half of aquaseal applied in the crotch area Gawd I hate wet nuts... pretty good waders but my next set are gonna be G3s

*hit Glenbow, in most places it's too late.. lets just manage and enhance what's there (ie. lower Bow) but in a few places we can halt and reverse the slide(ala.Qirck Ck). Westslopes and bulls are a helluva lot tougher than people give them credit for and can rebuild themselves if we just create some room. B)

In reality, that's nothing more than an enforcement issue and a change of mindset ... a few $2500 fines for harvesting an endangered species would soon have people bonein' up on IDin' skills and pressure from the electorate would soon change mindset of those votewhores we call MLAs and MPs. What I do have a lot of problem with is an non-indigenous introduced species being held in the same esteem as species that have been here since the last Ice Age by the general fishing populace. Oh well, it's all cool

Compete eradication is an unrealistic goal IMO but Qirck Ck has shown that control via harvesting can work to an extent...reduce the number of brookies in a system and the cutts and bulls will expand into the vacated niches. Remember, brookies taste good but two of them little dinks ain't much of a meal.

Yup brookies are a helluva fish alright.. a hoot to catch, pretty to look at, and the 2nd best tasting freshwater gamefish after 'eyes IMO. MOF I tryin' to plan a arctic fly-in for brookies and char.. not quite sure if it can be done in a single trip.... it'll be my youngest son's grad present........... BUT here in the West.. brookies really can be considered nothing more than a aquatic version of english house sparrows or starlings.. they seem to have a hasty habit of completely takin' over their available habitat.... probably one of the major reasons why Westslope Cutthroat Trout currently occupies less than 1% of their historic range in the Bow River sub basin..... plus the little bastards like to crossbreed with the endangered bull trout In reality Alberta should have a 10-20 fish daily limit on brookies like Montana, Wyoming and Idaho... helps keep them damn water rats in check.... ala TU's Qirck Ck project. . . . . . . . . . . . Oh Yeah... don't get me started on RBTR.. they ain't a lot better in reality :)

You got to be frickin' jokin'... Right??

**sigh** Yer link freezesup firefox....y'all also need a painindaass smilie

'K........windy up there today and yer neighbor looks kinda suspicious....... watched it for about 5 minutes..... kinda like fishin chronies or watchin grass grow :wacko: give us 5 minutes warnin before you run around yer lawn nekkid :P

Well Double D, it seems to be workin but you must have it in the closet.. ... black screen....can't get vid to run... oh yeah... the lansky's vid runs on IE, no firefox

Oh well, I had a good trip too BTW might be smart to stay away from the back slappers until that burn heals :ph34r:

It was good ta finally meetcha Dave and catchin' fish too, although the infamous blue sweater looked kinda pale and hairy to me and well on it's way to turnin' kinda sunburny red Wonders will never cease.... the doode was slayin'em @ Bullshead and on a damned Bow River setup

Sorry guys, maybe I shoulda added those pictures were taken on the Saskatchewan side of the Cypress Hills this weekend. I needed a small water fix. The Noble's lived in the pictured cabin on Battle Ck from 1942-52. When I first met them it was on their place on Beaver Ck here in SW Alberta.

Why is that coulee in the hills, that stream, that old cabin and that fish one of lifes circles? Over 40 yrs ago, every chance I got I went fishing on a certain creek in the Porcupine Hills that looked very similar to the pictures. It's where I learned to love small stream trout fishin'. One of my favourite stretches ran through the Noble place. The ranch house was a old log cabin. Albert would never refuse permission and always took the time to visit a little, loved to talk horses. Sylvia always made sure you weren't hungry, growing 16 yr old farmboys need to eat ya know.. The connection.. the circle? Those memories and coulees in the hills are over 40 yrs and 350 km apart but the Nobles lived in both those places and that little fish was caught just below that old cabin in the picture just this Saturday. Thank You Albert and Sylvia

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