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I started using Partridge, recently. Awesome hooks. The have great strength and will not bend out. Even the lighter wire scud hooks will last though a bunch of big fish. Otherwise, I use Diiachi or Tiemco. Mustads are much to brittle for anything under #12.

After I moved here, I had my box set up at Guitar Works on 17th NW. Had no complaints, at all. I have a bottom of the barrel Larivee (out of BC) and it is a gem. It sounds as good as a guitar 2-3x the price. It is the 01 series; hard to find, but if you come across one, buy it.

I never do stuff like this. I'm thinking it might be karma catching up to me, Max.

The last issue of Fly Fusion had a nice Bull pattern.

I seem to have left the bottom portion of my 5wt with the reel attached beside a small pond near Bragg Creek on Tuesday. If anyone has come across one around there, you would save me a big replacement cost. Thanks.

Bulls are protected in AB because it is our provincial fish, not because of their population status. A few individuals became concerned about the status of the species in Alberta and lobbied to get it protected. Making it our provincial fish was the fastest and easiest way to do that. The powers that be are actually as or more concerned with population status of western cutts and even lake trout, and we can still harvest those. The population in K-lakes has a number of consecutive years of research on it, making it very valuable. I wouldn't want to see harvest opened there until the researchers were ready for it.

Dang. I would like to have checked that out. SL is a great site, with lots of good info.