DonAndersen

As far as that age old story - remove perch and the assholes will just do it again. That is the reason we don't lock up people after they rob banks. They will just do it again. Till this govt had the balls to do something about perch, we will continue to lose more lakes. At this point, we have lost Phyllis, Tay, Twin, Crimson, Cow and Struble. That makes about 1/2 of them screwed. The Govts action to this point is not apparent other than rewarding the perch stocking Angler's by having a limit on vermin. Fished once at Crimson and got checked at the dock by the Officers. He counted the perch twice to make sure I wasn't over my limit. He had no answer to the question "why am I allowed to benefit from an illegal act"? Don

Jordan, That is exactly why Govt does sweet f... Nothing. I gave listened to the locals talk about perch removal. Nope - not interested. Gotta have some place for the kids. Trouble is I have yet to see one of those kids. What people say and do are a world apart. Don

Guys, Here is a fisheries survey. Although it concerns lakes there are two areas that bear attention., 1] Pine Coulee may go to trout. Sterile trout. Unless some intelligent management creeps into ESRD, I suspect 5 a day + ice fishing. 2] Struble Lake + other lakes in the province illegally stocked with perch. The Govt asks if the public would support retention. Ya' all gotta be kidding - why in the hell would anyone support an illegal activity. That is the best way to support further perch infestations. Idiotic. By the way - Struble Lake raised fish over 10 lbs. I used to catch them over 6 lbs [ not inches] regularly. https://talkaep.alberta.ca/fisheries-engagement?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eloqua&utm_campaign=OUTDOORS_20170222_ABFisheriesSurvey&cvosrc=email.eloqua.OUTDOORS_20170222_ABFisheriesSurvey&elqTrackId=4e949663189f4e78a844d7b65672aa67&elq=f3a3748b67f24ab69f1ee79564fd62c6&elqaid=7926&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=13534 And with that I'm off tying again. Don

But which segment. The people who do stupid stuff this or the people who look for them?

And Peter, How does society deal with this. https://www.facebook.com/werideeveryday/videos/1876742252562541/

Jordan, Even with all thier failings, they are likely a lot better than what is about to arrive. Don

Jordan, There are so many ways the previous Govt could have done different and as a result we will live with these issues for many years to forever. The ones just related to water/fisheries would include: - illegal stocking of perch, Asian carp - building the Three River dam without permits resulting in the Federal Court ordering Fisheries and Oceans into Alberta to make sure Alberta obeys the law. - doing sweet f....k all about WD making its entrance to Alberta inevitable - doing nothing about fresh water usage till forced - approving water withdrawals to Rivers till they are over allocated by up to 130% ( the Bow) - squatter camping - illegally placed bridges and culverts. 700 of 900 in the Swan Hills is but one example Get the picture? The track record is pretty bad. Don

Recon.... Kinda like the Saudi stuff. Oil produced in Alberta does effect air and water. Oil produced by the Saudis do not. Sorry but this is reality. Don

Skid... Will check. Switched to Monzilla and things worked fine. Don

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And then it dies Wash throughly before cooking unless it is from the Bow. Then bury it at the land fill. Don

Folks, I re-thought the fracking fluids post. The "news" on fracking ain't new. Not by a long shot. The have been wells fracked in Alberta for >50 years. The fluid of choice was hydrocarbon fluids generally derived from hydrocarbon condensates. A fractionation system NW of Rocky Mtn. House produced the product for many years. The more recent fracs ( don't mean to confuse all you new folks but fracs it was for many years - kinda like tar sands ) are now often using water + various surfactants. The water recovered is either reused or injected into disposal wells of which I've operated two. One at 10,000 depth and the other near 14,000' deep. The journalism that produced the article is crap. Do a net search. The crap has spread all over the place. Now I'm heading to my basement retreat and contemplate the question: do more people in a pile make them progressively dumber"? Don

Folks, While frack fluids are something new in the oil fields of Alberta, for <50 years, fluids of all types have been moved by truck. Many of those fluids are a whole lot more toxic to aquatic life. To single out frack fluids is to cause alarm when little should exist. I suspect that several hundred truck loads of toxic fluids are moved through my town every day. Toxic fluids will include: sweet crude oil, sour crude oil, sweet and sour hydrocarbon condensate, frack fluid additives, acids, propane, butane, battery acids, fertilizers, glycols, methanol, sour water, gasoline, diesel and on and on. Do I need a "safe place"? Don

Beeker, The system used is the same one used for years. Don

The problem continues. But only with Safari. Monzilla works just fine on the IPad. Maintains login. I suspect it is a cookie issue with Safari. Don

Learned more silliness this morning. Using home page log in has no remember me button. Go to forums and bookmark it, Login is licked in. Don

There appears to be two different sign in boxes. One is w/o "remember me" option. Got the right one now. I musta qualified as a temporary Calgarian. After all technology baffles the rural savages. Don

Having to sign in every time. How do I maintain maintain login? Regards, Don

The higher you go, the tougher life is. Most animals more to better surroundings come winter. Migrations are always towards easier living.

Mike, Clearly, you don't listen. Stop the crap at the border. Clear enough now. Mind you, guess I should've said that 40 years ago. Would've had the same effect. The bone heads in Govt and the people who elected them are responsible. And now, watch Zebra get here the same way. Don

mditel, When I bought my first bamboo rod in 1958 or 59, I got one for $3.00. Ones similar to yours were $5.00. As Riconus said, they were post war Japanese rods of poor quality. The rods are worth whatever the market will bear. To give you some idea of what is out there, I wandered over to EBay and found these: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Mayflower-Bamboo-Fishing-Rod-7-pieces-NICE-/221939913269?hash=item33aca65235:g:NmYAAOSwcdBWRWeg http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-GRAMPUS-Split-Bamboo-FLY-FISHING-ROD-Casting-ROD-6-RODS-in-ONE-RARE-/172276631692?hash=item281c7cc88c:g:HKcAAOSwhOVXdZzK http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Bamboo-Fly-Spin-Fishing-Rod-by-Orient-Japan-Late-1940s-Original-Box-/162316012414?hash=item25cac9cb7e:g:4DsAAOSwPCVX9~B8 All are similar to what you have. However, without seeing the equipment in person, that is a best quess. Good luck with the sale. Don

As far as check stations. They will catch some. I passed through one with my pontoon boat. They checked the boat over well, gave us drying towels and info. Several days later did it occur to me that both my anchor rope and wading boots were wet and stored in tubs. They weren't checked. Further, my son and family were behind us whose trailer belly was chock full of inflable beach toys, swimming suits and wet towels. Don

Damn right I'm serious. I see no good reason why we should allow diseased equipment into Alberta. Have we learned nothing in the past 700 years. The Black Plague was only contained when the populations infected were quaranteened. I made the same comment at a Provincial Roundtable Meeting regarding walleye boats arriving back from Sask. Where the mussels are less than 100 miles from Alberta. Ya, they snarled and whined too. Well, screw 'em. Mussels not only effect water courses. It profoundly effect water systems forever. Very costly. So, just so somebody can go fishing, you expect us to pay forever. Good God! Don

Lorne, I've heard there are new horses in the barn. They seem to give a *hit about our fishery. Don

Most of Western Canada is landlocked, and as such, has very limited access to supplies from other regions. Only British columbia has access to imported product as the current infrastructure was not designed to transport supplies to the Prairies from other regions. However, the Edmonton refineries supply petroleum products into the Vancouver market via the TransMountain pipeline (TMPL). In the event of a supply shortage in the Prairies, these Alberta refiners have the ability to balance supply and demand by importing product into Vancouver from Washington State, freeing up additional Edmonton production for consumption in prairie markets. Product movements from refineries to terminals in the West are primarily done by pipeline. Movement by rail to the territories, B.C. interior and to Thunder Bay in western Ontario also occurs. Barges carry product from Vancouver to terminals on Vancouver Island and along the coast and from terminals in the Northwest Territories to more northern locations along the MacKenzie River. Edmonton refineries provide about 50-60% of the petroleum product needs in the Vancouver market. The rest of the Vancouver area is supplied either by the Chevron refinery in Vancouver, or with product imports from the U.S. The West has some unique dual product pipelines. Enbridge Line 1 pipeline from Edmonton, Alberta, to Gretna, Manitoba, ships refined products plus natural gas liquids (NGLs) and synthetic crude. TMPL from Edmonton to Vancouver ships refined products plus all types of crude oil. The crude oil leaves deposits of substances, like sulphur, on the pipeline wall as it passes through the pipeline. These can be picked up by the clean products like gasoline that follow the crude oil through the line. Gasoline shipped via TMPL to Vancouver must undergo further treating prior to sale to remove impurities picked up in transit. And Alberta does upgrade tar sands to gasoline for BC. http://www.shell.ca/en_ca/about-us/projects-and-sites/scotford.html And Alberta is building new refinery http://globalnews.ca/news/2265665/alberta-refinery-costs-level-at-8-5-billion-on-track-for-start Just so ya' know! Don