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Just fished Stauffer the other day, rattlesnakes would be easy to handle in comparison..

Congrats man.

Hehe.. No worries man.

To be honest, I hadn't read much of the thread past Lynn's post.. Was referring to that in regards to learning to cast left, not meaning that if "you" stuck with it you'd learn.

Stick with it and you'll learn.. I shoot sporting clays with a guy who was having a tough time hitting targets, took a clinic with some guy who figured out he was left eye dominant and shooting right handed. Changed up, and hated it for the first while but once he got the hang of it his rounds improved dramatically. Hard to do because of the reaction times involved, and being used to 20 + years of shooting right handed. Pretty impressive I thought.

Run your line through the peg to your nymph. Fold your line up against the peg, and push it back in the float. I sometimes notch the top of the peg for heavy nymphs, a slash across the top of the peg, put the line in the slash and she's not coming free for much. Good for alot of weight...

Since you're so interested, feel free..

Yes. A total error in judgement on both counts.

My life's too short to read complete nonsense.

I put pics to Flickr, then download them back from there to my desktop. Shrinks the file size to less than 100 KB, and you can just upload the image directly. Works good to bring down the file size for RAW. The image quality isn't sacrificed too much doing it that way I've found. But I'm incompetent to say the least with anything computer related, so there's probably a better way.

Got 'em all, solid reads without a doubt... Was flipping through Blue Ribbon, and noticed it was signed in the front. A nice surprise I thought.

Hehehe..

I do once in a while, but I often dredge bottom pretty hard with alot of weight so usually indicators work better. With a pretty visible tipped high-floating line and a long tippet, it works pretty well. I've found it to be a pretty short range game though simply because it's harder to see the line farther out. Watch your line tip, if it does anything out of the ordinary, as an indicator, slam it, obviously. I've found it works really well for dead-drifting woolly buggers, you'll see your line duck on the take, and pow... I, for the longest time, was the same way as far as sticking to dries and streamers but forced myself to fish nymphs, some days extensively. I'm alot more comfortable, and catch alot more fish (in my terms, that is..) that way now. Some of the biggest fish I've caught, in the most difficult places, were on big nymphs. Pretty satisfying to set the hook and have a knuckle-busting run on your hands before you even know what the hell happened.

I saw them in Fishtales the other day..

I've been using those indicators with the plastic peg. Take a knife and notch the top of the peg so there is a slight groove to put your line in. Then push the peg in. No worries about it popping free. Not always necessary, but sometimes with alot of weight the peg will pop free after a few casts, which I find to be a complete pain in the ass.

Good deal, thanks to everyone involved with setting it up. First attempt casting a 2 hander, got a line picked out for my first spey that's been collecting dust in the corner for the last month. Definitely looking forward to getting out on the water with it now.

Beauty pics.

I want to make sure my nieces have a string of letters behind their names, other than that, I want the last check I write to bounce.

Never seen a hearse pullin' a U-haul..

In the summer, sure. Cold weather? No thanks. I slept in a bag for almost a month in the Yukon/NWT, closer to the ground the better with a decent mat beneath is the way to go (at least for me) Fully dressed, still had not alot of desire to get up in the morning and bathe in the Big One. Less air around you at night the better.

http://www.eid.ab.ca/ A little more upstream, and there is also Carseland, obviously.

Awesome pics.

I do all my own setups, intonations, etc. and I've found that when I re-string a guitar I stretch the strings by lifting up on them before I tune it up. Take it to a guy if you don't do it yourself, there was a guy named Peter at Guitarworks on 16 th Ave that was pretty solid. May be a problem with the guitar as said, I noticed that the first guitars I had (electric and acoustic) played extremely hard, as the action was about an inch high. I basically taught myself, so I didn't really clue in to this. I have a few decent ones now, and its like night and day playing-wise ( though I need to play more for sure..) and in hindsight I'd have picked up some decent ones alot sooner. Perhaps that helps..

Amazing how a fairly straightforward question can lead to nonsense such as this.. That was an interesting day Brad, can't wait to get out again.

Beauties.