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There is LESS (read: LESS) friction on the guides. The ridging of the line puts less surface area on the guides. IE: the purpose of the line. The reason it will probably mangle your hands is because your hands will form to the line, and are a lot softer than your guides. You guys are making it difficult not to buy one of these

HA! Don't bother with BC. The gov't is making a huge push to increase angler numbers

Good one Bobbers A few got it and a few didn't. I think ausnuck cheated It is a yearling chinook. The spacing between the parr marks, lack of spotting on the adipose fin and somewhat hidden anal fin were the giveaways. This was a tough one even for me, as I second guessed my original guess of chinook (thinking they should have migrated out of the system already) and thought rainbow briefly. A quick email to a prof cleared that up Good guess on coho smolt weeds But there's no white edge on the anal fin. Greedy little beggars. I caught 5 of them on that same pattern!

Release them outside the city, so they compete with native critters. Wonderful. Those folks should have their knees busted.

The fish was caught in British Columbia

Greedy little feckers they were!

Caught Sept 3rd 2007

What type of fish is this?

This will rock. I will be hella creative for this one. Edit: At least we're not up against TerryH for mayflies BBB

Umm a lake with fish present will reduce growth rate. Side by side, triploids will grow faster, bigger and healthier than their 2N counterparts......thats the purpose of triploids.....

Yes, they grow faster. Typically not by much, because most lakes are overstocked. If you took two barren lakes with an established aquatic food base and put the same number of AF3N trips in one, and diploids in another, you would notice a difference in growth. Problem being, noone has done this on the ground, and I hope they do soon. There's going to be 30 or so lakes like Silkstone and Lovett created near Coal Valley in the coming years. Those lakes could be one heck of a playground for seeing what works and what doesn't.....

Since when are there walleye in Wab? I netted a few thousand fish from there, no eyes. When I asked why no eyes, they said there were none

You will soon consider the above fish to be 'boots' and not worth catching

Looks sustainable...

You still need a minor kill fishery. Say one fish over 50cm. Basically to help out the natural mortality, keep the density around the right area, or you get stunted fish.

Bite me, punk

I did!? I forget things fast You been warned. The first time a good solid triploid takes you for a ride you'll blink a couple times! I know I did. Then you'll crap your pants when you find out that fish that rallied 60 feet of line n backing out was only 16"

Wait, what am I saying. Go fish southern Alberta. That leaves the central and northern parts for me! Yeah! Thats the ticket!

Devoid of fish. It was an exceptional circumstance. However, 3N rainbows can put on ridiculous weight in one year. Here is a pic of a yearling Dragon AF3N Pennask. 13" chrome bullets. Tough to hold onto on a 5wt

Don't post your location.....dead simple. You can't control what the next guy does, you just have to walk farther. The farther you walk, the better the fishing get. End of discussion?

The day they beached 12 it was on a combo of gear and fly, depending on the water available. Biggest fish was 22# on a river you have likely fished, if you've played on most of them.

Monger, I've seen triploids grow 3lbs in their first year. You're gonna love em, however it turns out My only problem with em is that they tend to bulldog more and jump less.

2012!? It's 2008! They grow faster than that! From what I've seen and heard about BH, you'll have 3lb fish by 2010 for sure

Region Six QCI is redic. My buddy went home to QCI for christmas and landed over 40 in a few days. He said he smallest was 8lbs, biggest running to around 20 (42"). My other buddy fishes a lot of water out of Terrace. Can't say what rivers, but if you do your homework, there aren't many secrets out there.