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Good news and nice video. Thanks for sharing. Daryl

Lornce that brown drake is my kind of fly ,simple yet elegant at same time. While not everyone posts their work you can be sure seeing yours inspires us to us to keep tying. Daryl

I think its a matter of industry dollars trump the fish and the anglers. Look at what happened to the rivers on Vancouver Island and the Thompson river Steelhead to see how logging and development and fish populations co- exist. And that happened with out any petroleum interest or development,well except for the Coq run, its got a pipeline and a highway which pretty much did its run in. Industry will stall and deny and keep right on rolling along and government will play along as need the jobs and the taxes and one day they will all be looking surprised and alarmed that all the fish are just gone. Fish need clean water and well forested drainage's to survive and neither seems to fit well with the economic model currently in place. We can,t continue with resource extraction and growth at present rate and expect wilderness to survive. The ecosystem is a lot more complex than leaving a strip of trees on either side of a stream for 50 meters or so and saying its still intact and ok. I think most can understand this but he who pays the piper calls the tune and that should be pretty obvious too. The wild back country while it looks vast is really a finite amount and once its all tramped over and cut down well it makes a difference. Again look at Vancouver Island steelhead fishing say in the 50-60,s and today, look at the developement and logging and its pretty obvious that the fish lost there. Good luck with your eastern slopes fishery and hope it is more successful in surviving than has happened in BC, we are just rolling along out here, salmon are way down now too and still we look for a reason other than what we are doing to our land out here, maybe its the ocean? Couldn,t be anything we have done to cause it.Sincerely best of luck, we failed big time in BC.Closing rivers on Island has done nothing to bring back the fish ,common sense would lead you to believe since it didn,t work then maybe that wasn,t the problem.

Not familiar with the norvise tools but as a general tip I found one of most helpfull for tying drys is to use a short section of a small plastic drinking straw to hold back hackle. just cut short length and split it on a diagonal. you can then slide around thread and slip up over head of fly to hold material back away from eye.(found west jet straws about perfect size). Any smaller straw can work and with diagonal can be squeezed smaller. Another good source of smaller tubing is the small shrink tubing from a radio supply place,can get it here from local electronics store. Also works for junction tubing on tube flys. Likely best tip I know and costs next to nothing and keeps feather out of head and cement. Daryl

That is a dandy looking fish,2 fish I guess. What is the # of the rod,South Bend I think. Daryl

Thanks for the links Dave. Looks like I need at least 2 pair of boots to fish in different waters as takes at least a day for felt to dry out. I suppose that is an advantage to new rubber soled boots as laces will dry faster than felt soles. No mention of any cleaner or steriliser other than using dish soap which is fine too,drying time is the weak link. I really don,t want to spread anything. Daryl

What is the best method to clean,sterilise your boots,will a dip in bleach and water work,if so what concentration is needed? will bleach eat the boots. Can any one suggest a site that explains how to best clean boots. Thanks in advance. Daryl

Looks like you figured it out,nice fish,brown is a beaut. I,ll second the question what did you do different make things work .Ive only fished Bow 2 times myself and never with any luck .I look at hogs you guys show on here and drool . I though I was pretty good fisher but think could learn alot yet when fishing bow . Daryl