Taco

Re: The need for special licenses and ID tests, A quick look to the south, Montana; 20 brookies daily and in possession in most of the state 10 the rest, all wild stream caught cutthroat and bull trout must be released immediately and are identified by throat slashes and no black. Idaho; 25 brook trout/day. Same ID and release criteria on natives. Wyoming; 16 brook trout/day Oregon; no limit or size restrictions on brook trout in certain waters Colorado; 14 brook trout/day, several lakes have must kill regs in place. California; 10 brook trout per day where competing with native trout Utah; bonus limit on brook trout in certain waters All states have more liberal harvest limits on introduced species over native species and several states also have must kill regulations on certain invasive fish species, you catch it you must dispatch it immediately. Plus bull trout cannot be even targeted in the good old US of A I'm sure their F&G departments are just as short staffed and underfunded as ours is and I'm reasonably certain there's not a sudden IQ drop in the average fisherman north of the 49th Parallel. All it is an enforcement issue.

Oh Christ, looks like I missed the OFer's birfday, Hope you had a gooder...

All native trout anywhere will always be at risk if all wild/native trout are treated and revered as equals

40 gr spitzer BT @ 4,224 ft/s outta a 22-250 vaporizes the little buggers out to about 350m ....saves work on the picking up part

Yeah he did, in the Canadian Flyfisher about 5 yrs ago I believe. "Further Thoughts on Catch and Release - Do some of us take it a bit too seriously?" I can't seem to find a copy online.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm sayin' but cutthroat are just another introduced species north of the Bow drainage, Alberta has arctic grayling and athabaskan rainbows surviving in just a fraction of their historical ranges too.

Most won't like it but C&R will only work for the protection the westslopes if there's a very liberal retention limit on all non-native trout in the foothill and mountain zones. Otherwise it just lip service.

Thanks for the PMs everyone Condolences Lynn

Wait'll June when the big flow comes.........mountains don't usually completely let go till the first of summer.

Them assholes are every province and state, don't delude yourself it's only in the west

When the wife leaned over to pull weeds from their garden, the husband said, "Your butt is getting huge. I bet it's bigger than the barbecue." While she complained, he grabbed a tape measure from the garage, measured the grill, then measured his wife. "Yep! Two inches wider than the grill!" She said nothing. (Do you believe that? No, I didn't either.) But that night, in bed, when he felt frisky, she brushed him off. "What's wrong?" he asked. She answered, "Do you really think I'm going to fire up this big-ass grill for one little wiener!?"

Interestin' country, been used for yrs. Quite a few old cabins hidden 100yds back from the creeks, whiskey stills, rumrunner caches and the like. Hell I can show you a random camp that was carbon dated back 8-10,000 yrs. Know a guy who has an old hudson bay trade musket he found leanin' against the trunk of a douglas fir, complete with brass tacks.

Oops, screwed up Terry's cash flow... sorry Terry

Lethbridge Paranoia, develops in anyone livin' there for more than 2 yrs plus 1 day, in Lethbridgian FFers, usually manifests itself as a irrational fear that anyone other than themselves might fish the St Mary's tailwater or the South Castle, can also suffer from delusions that the Crow is private water.

yeah it mostly missed us down here

Cool, keep'm comin'!

What's the matter Ray, you find a tampon floatin' down the Crow?

I own and fish a few glass rods from 6' to 8', used to own a 4 1/2 ft banty but someone wanted it worse than I did.

Jesus ya supposed to count?

Quit runnin' catheters the same day as the surgery Sarge and cow *hit is just grass and water...it washes. Now necrotic tissue..................................

If you think sciatica painful now wait till you have to run a catheter every time you urinate

Fought it for yrs. Non-surgically, improving your core strength will help the most but in my case I finally had to get a ruptured disc removed. Been pretty good since.

That GL3 would be a decent starting point for your wife.

x3

I'z be waitin' on the dbt............