ÜberFly

That's a frick'in heart attack waiting to happen!!

I'm gonna throw this out there, but will probably get ridiculed for it b/c it's veggie... Annpurna Curry Pot on 52 and Memorial SE Former owners were AWESOME, but they sold and it's still very good! P

Dustin, Do you mean the army of ants or a red ant specifically?! P

Work's overrated!! P

Matt, the operative word is "area" as Lake Minnawanka (sp?) has lakers and is in the "area"!! But LL most likely does not!! P

What do you mean by "rules"?! Do you mean for fishing within the National Park, of specific techniques? P

P P.S. Except when your drunk fishing buddy drinks all the beers you brought and you come back to the truck expecting to have a nice cold one and there ain't any left!!

Interesting you would use non-lead based weight and then lead eyes, but like you mentioned, you used what you had... I try to use no lead consistantly, but I think I have a few lead eyes left, as well... Great tie! P

Very nice! Looks like an AWESOME trip! P

Nice pics Gary! P

Very cool! Did you get any photos or vids? P

Correct Rick, but as far as what the "consumer" pays (even with products "on sale") the retailer still has to make $, and they do! It all fits into the grand scheme of things... manufacture cost - wholesale cost - retail cost... Each segment needs to turn a profit (or why make/sell products?!), so if the retail mark up is at least 100%, then then each previous segment is making a specific %'age as well (maybe not 100% as each segment is certainly weighted differently. Of course volume plays a role, as well - think Cost-co, Walmart, etc.) P

Kewl! If you need to look at the modifications I made, lemme know! P

I don't have a lot of retail experience, but what I do know is the "standard" mark up with all (if not most) retail products is 100%, so one can presume that it's the same in the sports retail sector... P

So for those of you that have followed this soap opera, thus far... Here's an update. Found a travel agent (name was passed along by deb's bro-in-law) who is a "one man show"... YYC - FRA - BOM, return (commission, GST, etc., included) $1400!! He's working to try and find better, but that's pretty darn good for going through a travel agent! P

Andy, didn't know there was a time limit on fishing this particular hole (or any any other, for that matter...) <Just kidding> Actually, there was 6 people in our group. My father (who's 80), my nephew (who's 10), my GF, my buddy and his wife (as previously mentioned) and seeing we were with a "senior" and child, it wasn't easy for us to pool jump and explore other areas of the river., P

Hey I'm all for being a "kid" and enjoying summer (used to cliff jump as well at different locals), but the whole deal was that they were being punk, snot nose pricks. If they were wanting to speak to us like mature individuals, then we probably wouldn't have called them in (I'm sure if we weren't with my friends wife, the RCMP probably would have told us they were too busy, anyway). We would even told them we were going to be fishing for another 1/2 hour or so and they could have drank beer and swam instead of jumping in right off the bat... P

Never fished the Highwood before and was surprised that no body was even there to begin with!!

So a few of us were fishing on the Highwood today (big pool - cliff jumping pool) and had never fished the Highwood beofre. Anyway, didn't know this was the area where all the local teens go to party and jump off the cliffs... We got there and had the whole place to ourselves (except for all the garbage and beer cans/water bottles, etc.). Anyway, about an hour into our session when the fish just started to rise a group of teens came down to jump off the cliffs. We tried to speak to them politely to let them know we were fishing there and they told us off and proceeded to jump off the cliffs and drink beer, etc. Many of them were obviously underage... Nonetheless, my buddies wife that was with us is an RCMP officer (off duty) and when we got back to our vehicles (no point fishing after all that racket) she puts a call into to Turner Valley dispatch (found out one of their vehicles was even wanted for a hit and run)... Anyway, long story short, she gets a follow-up txt while we were having dinner in Black Diamond, and the kids received over $700 in fines!! :ridemcowboy: If they weren't so rude to begin with, we probably wouldnt have done anything, but I guess we ruined their long weekend fun!! Yeehaw! :ridemcowboy: P

On the flip... I've had about three posts removed (over the last 2 years mind you) and did not receive a message as to why.. Only one I would have contested!! My point exactly with the inconsistency of the Mods... I'm not trying to make a big deal about this I thought thhat if it was something that happened often, it would be a good educational opportunity, that's it! P

I totally agree that if it in the wrong section... But what I'm talking about is when there is no clear reason why it was removed (or at least no obvious reason - didn't necessarily violate any of the rules), and even if it did, I think the person should be aware of why their post was removed (like the photo violation - poster are supposed to be made aware of why their photos was removed)... Educates them so they don't do it again. Plus one Mod might have removed it, while another didn't , sometimes inconsistent, but that's understandable... P

Sorry, I misread his post... But at least to the person that they removed their post, as sometime you don't even know it was removed... No the are deleted! P

No for other mods, but for the person (and others) that you removed their post... P

I've been censored by the Mods previously (which I'm not desputing for the most part, except for one time) and I think the Mods need to inform the censoree that they did this and why as an "educational op" and out of courtesy... Just my $0.02 P

<start of hijack> Rick, having just returned from the homeland, I would think you would consider this weather "cool"!! LoL <end of hijack> P