Taco

high mountain lakes likely, anywhere there is a chance of non-native pollution on public lands they use a native fish for stocking. I discovered this summer that we lost a slowly recovering foothills cutthroat stream to non-native pollution, likely source is a stocked private pond that blew out in June of 2005

fog!! its MAXWELL

well... more than a few are still criminals

There's a smartassed rely in there somewhere but I think I'll just leave it alone......

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No knot, despite claims, will hold 100 % of rated line strength. A properly tied and lubricated 5 turn improved cinch should hold 80-90% but if you have an "Ooops!" or a "WTF did that loop go to??" as I often do, can drop the knot strength down to as low as 60%. With my beat to hell hands and fingers I've recently switched to using a 5 turn uni knot to tie flies to tippet. This is after 45 yrs of usin' the improved cinch. It's about the same strength as the IC and a tad easier for me to tie. I use a 5 turn duncan loop for streamers and soft hacks anyway and the uni is similar except you throw the loop in the tag not the running line. One thing about knots... practice throwing them @ home until you're proficient, I use a chunk of old fly line. Standin' in the stream with risin' fish all around you is no time to try and remember a new to you knot.

What knots you usin' to tie leader to tippet and tippet to fly BT?

Damn big bird, such an attitude lately

Brung your damn binocs too so's ya can see them little buggeredly hooks in the flat friggin' glare. Got so's I was settin' the hook on any rise within 6' of where the fly should/could be...... Maybe that why I didn't see anybody??...probably even spooked all the grizzlies outta the valley.

True dat, them friggin invasive friggin' lake fiss should be destined for culinary uses anywho, Mmmm smoked rainbow.......

God I love the fall blue wing olives, Livingstone and it's multitude of lip rippers still piss me off but I still managed to find a few hella beeg fisses without it and right in the middle of a random camper hell too. No pics, no time, there was fiss to catch

mofo!!!!

Phone them. Sage is repairing an even older broken RPL+ of mine w/no warranty for the fifty bucks plus shippin'.

So I take it Noud is the klootzak of the group? :P

No wait... he uses a different word, sorry about that

Or Rickr's fishin' dries....................................

Nice. You know what really pisses me off about steelhead? The fishin' starts pickin' up @ the same time I gotta start restockin' the bank account

How about Old Woman Fish? Like the coulee @ High River

Ya they do, the record is 13 1/2 lbs

northern pikeminnow

Yeah you're probably right but I've been on receiving end of some idiot huntin' geese w/triple ought, noisy and stings a bit

Don't know the zones but duck season is open in a large part of the Province and open province wide as of tomorrow. Lead shot falling from a couple hundred metres up will sound exactly as you described but generally lacks the energy to do any real damage. Don't ask me how I know.

Yup, an armed society can be a very polite society

Could be Brian, ain't that far below the falls and a decent hike from the obvious access, seemed to me there was some extra ornamentation to that stupid log and now it's got a goodly portion of my klinks etc. Oh yeah..... great original post Rick, love it when things come together and bounces ya of the trees when it don't but it's all good.

Sure is a different Rickr than the one I fished with... seems to be way more poetic lot less swearing nowadays, must be coming to grips with his own mortality. I did my best old Rickr impersonation Friday. Ran across a extremely picky big pig of cutty rising along side a log jam, in a friggin' cross wind in the only friggin' approach. Left over a dozen flies stuck in a 4" log and the BP refused anything that I finally did get pitched in there until I was down to a sz20 pmd and then I overset gawddamned fly. Think I heard timber poppin' afterwards.