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Hijack JohnB Congratulations on your recent success in Quebec. BK

Happy B-day Al

I'd have to say go with the SLV as well ($65.00 at Wholesale Sports). Best bang for your buck I have a couple of them that have landed pretty decent fish, both in the river and lake fishing in BC. The drag has never let me down and they're relatively light weight. Never had a problem with them. My $.02 BK

Casting a double/triple nymph rig isn't really casting, it's more like lobbing it out there, especially if you add a corky to the mix. Keep your false casts to a minimum. If you have to, lay the line down in front of you and pick it up and recast rather than false cast it. At the end of your drift, rather than try and cast from downstream to upstream, strip in some line, pick the line up and lob it out in the genereal direction you want to cast, then with one false cast, shoot the rest of the line to where you want to be. Until you get the hang of it, keep your casts on the short side. Most of the casters who false cast a couple of times and really boom it out there have been doing it for years. Take small steps and you will get the hang of it. It ain't pretty but nobody else cares what your casts look like. Hope this helps BK

There goes the neighborhood

Jeez Harry, I feel for ya. I'll track Rusty down Friday night and we'll have a rum or two and feel sorry for you....not. Later BK

Ooops double post

I'm in for a dozen or so as well

I've seen Rossman (Dr Cue) live a couple of times doing a trick shot routine. The guy is a phenominal shooter and very entertaining. wongrs - there are actually several pool leagues in Calgary, the largest being a VNEA league ran by Southern Music. The APA/CPA tried to start a league here a few years ago but it didn't take. Several years ago I believe Calgary had the highest per capita percentage of registerred pool players in North America.

It seems ther's a little more to this than was mentioned above. The guy didn't deserve to get jumped and beaten by four guys, BUT if could learn to keep his mouth shut, maybe these things wouldn't happen to him. The way the story goes here is he was Beekin pretty hard so a little discretion might have kept him from getting a beating.

Happy birthday Russ

Why is divorce so expensive? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Because it's worth it.

Al I'd be in for a pub night

If Rusty's going, I'm in as well.

I dunno Colin, I think the site just went for a crap. Welcome Nutman

Geez Nick, ya gotta like that

Hey Playdoh As Rusty said, a buddy and I built a boat in '01. Be prepared to spend a lot of hours in your garage. The amount of time spent is directly porportional to how nice a boat you end up with. Wood boats also require a fair bit of upkeep. "Stitch and glue" boats have no internal ribs and are stronger than a ribbed boat. Most wooden boats are , as Rusty says, heavier than plastic boats, but only because builders tend to put more "stuff" (decks, storage, etc) in the boat making them heavier and a little tougher to row. If you'd like to have a look at our boat, shoot me a PM in the New Year and hopefully I can be of some help. Nick if you need anything, call me. BK

I've had the Peak rotary for a couple of years and am very pleased with it. I think all of the vises mentioned above (Renzetti, griffin,peak) are good vises. Hydropsyche nailed it. Camlocks are the way to go. My $.02 BK

GREAT LOOKING FLYTYERS LIKE ME AND AL. I resemble that remark. I'm always in and perhaps can help out a bit. BK

Wider? Thinner? Detail? I have edited the tail about 30 times and just can't get it right. Input please. The tail's not bad, just make the body thinner in front of it.

I'm not trying to stir the pot here, but... Originality might not be a bad thing. FlyBC is already using the mayfly as their logo BK

Kind of off topic, but.... I tied some chronnie's using acetate floss and Peacock Ice Dub instead of herl. When I dipped the flies in acetone, the ice dub turned very brittle. When i rolled it between my fingers it crumbled and fell off. I've had this happen occasionally with head cement as well. BK

Although I believe trout are opportunistic feeders, I do believe they are taking the Hopper pattern as just that. Think back to when we were kids, (That's a long way for some of us), when we went fishing we used worms and when we could catch them, live hoppers. I don't think the fish were mistaking a live hopper for a Stonefly, and they did catch fish. On the other hand I don't think the trout key on Hoppers as much as they do on Stone's so maybe an overlap. My $.02 BK Then again, who really cares. Fishing hoppers is just so damn much fun

I use a pair of needle nose before tying the fly. As Rusty says, better to break them before tieing the bug I use mostly Daaichi/Mustad hooks and usually only break them when I get stupid.