DonAndersen

Comparison of License Fees by Govt is located here. http://www.srd.alberta.ca/ManagingPrograms...rta-Feb2010.pdf Don

Harps, In Alberta, you're right. The rainbows here share traits with Herefords. In BC, wild stocks are used as egg sources in some cases. In others, wild stocks are added to the mix regularly. The difference is related to the statement made by a bio. from BC who said right out loud " the fishing in BC is better than it was 30 years ago". BC has some idea of what it's doing to improve the lake fishing. In Alberta - well! Don

Folks, For those that wish to be informed by experts in fish culture should look @ what BC does in this document. http://www.gofishbc.com/docs/2208A06B4B85CFDB.pdf regards, Don

Bigtoad, Such trips have been tried in the past w/o success. Leading a horse to water doesn't mean he'll drink. Don

Guys, Just looking @ some lakes c/w camping that I can spend some time on when traveling <>Manitoba. Prefer lakes from Pr. Al. > Alberta. Know about Manitoba. Was there in 2004 and last year. Going again this year. Don

Guys, Thanks for the pointers. I've fished the same lake as John K. last June on my way to Manitoba. Was as good as he said. Not a lot of fish but good ones. Don

See what happens when you fish in Alberta. You never see your backing knot. But, for whatever reason, BC, Sask, Manitoba, Montana, the backing knots show up regularly. Don

Folks, Anybody know anybody that help a old guy get educated on where to find trout in the Central Section of Sask. thanx, Don

But, There are triploids and triploids. BC stocks 3NAF = 3N [extra chromosome] AF [all female] Alberta stocks 3N [extra chromosome only] Difference - 3NAF have no jacking males in the population that exhibit spawning colors or behaviors with 1/2 of them dying @ age 2. Don

Folks - well no Guys, If you want to suck up big time, book a lunch for you and your significant other @ the Dove's Nest in Glenmore Landing. I know, I know but after nearly 45 years of marriage to the same woman, you learn that sucking up matters. The restaurant serves Quiche regularly. The women/man ratio is about 25:1. But I learned something that may or not effect your Federal Vote. Steve Harper has his constituency office upstairs above the Dove's Nest - that's a restaurant that serves Quiche for God's sake. Now if that if that's not a "get in touch with your feelings kinda thing, I don't know what is". But all is not lost. Asked the waitress about Steve ordering out. After all, it's a small CDN business and delivery is close. To this point, to her knowledge, Steve hasn't been part of the scene and in fact she's never seen him there. So what does all this mean. Not a darn thing. Just a comment on the herd. Don

Don't you just loved hyperbole. Like "The processes used to create triploids have a 98 per cent success rate, leaving 2 per cent able to breed. And no one is checking every triploid for sterility. So over the past five years 6,500 genetically modified fish capable of mating have mixed with our wild stocks, including the blue listed ones." What this idiot of a newspaper writer it trying tell you is that every fish that is not sterile made it successfully into the native populations. A lot of these lakes have the potential to dump into a downstream water course. All it takes is a 1:1000 year flood. He/she probably worked for Global @ one time. Don

Clive, There are two types of people. Self Starters & Kick Starters. Where did you put the BIG BOOTS!!! Folks, If Police Outpost lake reverts to what it was just 4 years ago, we have no hope ever of doing anything about lakes in this province. I know few fish lakes. I fish everything. You're missing some of the best fun of your life. The lake fishing season is starting next week for me with a chance to catch something that looks like this: Don

But how would it cast? And I'm really curious of how it was built. Typical tubular rods are constructed around a mandrel. The question is how would the mandrel be withdrawn? Or are the rods solid. Solid plastic rods were the first pass @ building plastic fishing poles. Got one in the basement build about 50 years ago. The guide issue is a neat one. There is a trade off between too few and to many. Forget the weight thing - it's marketing BS. I'd suspect that putting more guides on a rod may have a lot more to do with hitting a price point than decent rod design. What you gotta give the guy is that he was challenging accepted thought. As far as spey rods, nothing new about them. About turn of the century design. Don

Folks, This is one weird set up. http://img337.imageshack.us/f/ultrawaverod.jpg/ Don

Folks, I asked the Clearwater County folks for a chance to look over the application and drawings + ask some questions. Here is my take on things. Don It isn't often that post development is better than pre-development but such seems to be the case with regards of how Clearwater County is managing the development node at Nordegg. I had an opportunity of review the "package" for storm water disposal plus talk to some of the County employees. Not only is this attitude refreshing but is diametrically opposed to the stance of a lot of oil companies On the north side of the Highway will be three types of development incorporating commercial, country living and cottage. Each of them have different styles of domestic water procurement and waste treatment. The cottage development, which is the largest of the developments, requires both water storage and sewer holding tanks. In all cases the impact on the environment and water quality of Shunda Creek should be small On the south side of the Highway will reflect a more urban style of development with associated sewer, water & development issues. The County is developing the south side to accommodate a population of 2500>3000 people. As this is a phased in development over as much as 25 years, some of the storm water ponds will be constructed as required. What was learned however really made my day: 1] Domestic water is being procured by the use of deep water wells which will not effect the groundwater flow in Shunda to any extent. 2] The Storm drainage system is being constructed to reduce the peak flows to 75% of pre-development conditions. Further, the ponds will be constructed to handle 1:100 year floods. 3] The Sewer treatment plant is coming on line in 2011 with the effluent eventually finding it's way to the N. Sask. River rather than Shunda Creek. This is a tremendous improvement to what was historically done with domestic sewage going to Long Lake > Shunda w/o treatment. A stop gap measure of a sewage lagoon was constructed within the past couple of years and was used as a interim measure till the treatment plant comes on line in 2011. Although the lagoon was in place, the effluent still went to Long Lake and on to Shunda. To sum up, without a doubt, Clearwater County is taking a proactive and positive approach to the Nordegg Development protecting both water quality and quantity within Shunda Creek as best as possible. Clearly the County is demonstrating an environmental awareness not reflected when the Province dealt with Nordegg.

Taco, Didn't know that - knew that they did have some KKK types in the mid-east. Wasn't sure of the far east. Still, you gotta give Alberta it's due. Only place in the world the KKK is incorporated. Not something I'm terribly proud of. Don

Whoa there folks. Alberta can lay claim to the only legal incorporation of the KKK in the world. The KKK has been around for a long while. Apparently 80,000 people in Sask. were members @ one point. Alberta had its share of clavens. The local group still resides in Calgary. Here is a copy of the charter. http://http-server.carleton.ca/~warrent/2100/kkk.html The charter was incorporated in the mid-20's if I recall correctly and was re-issued under Lougheed's Conservative Govt. Just because smoothies and lattes showed up in Calgary really doesn't mean that white supremacy died. Don

What would have been great is to see Shunda when the mine was active. Along with run-off from the mine and associated equipment would have been the run-off from the town. I suspect that the nutrient flow to Shunda would have been less than it will now as pit toilets were in use. What Shunda would have looked like - who knows - @ this point the weed growth is greater than @ anytime in the past 40 years I've fished it suggesting that sewer is paying a large part in things. If one could use the Crow as an example, the following would/might be found: 1] clear mountain stream - no mine - few people - few fish 2] polluted mountain stream - lots of mines - lots of people - very few fish 3] less polluted mountain stream - mines gone - less people - pit toilets - more fish 4] sewage system arrives - sewer>river - bugs increase - fish increase in numbers & size 5] sewage plant starts to remove nutrient load - switch to low P04 soaps - bug #'s drop 6] sewage plant removes ever more sewage nutrient - bug life falls to clear mountain stream - bugs few - fish few Don

Sil... And as I said to a friend " this stuff continues 'cause we like it that way. Otherwise, we'd fix it" Included in stuff: Crime, Govt integrity, drugs, hackers, financial meltdowns, regards, Don

Guys/Gals, In the Tuesday Edition of The Mountaineer newspaper published in Rocky Mountain House this Public Notice appeared. The rules with regards to applications of this type from a guy who has dealt with a pile of these applications. 1] Only those directly effected are allowed comment - Dept of En. draws a very small circle sometimes around the application. 2] You get ONE month to have your concern in the Dept. of En. hands. 3] If you are not DIRECTLY effected and you do not get your concerns into the Dept. of En., your will not be considered in awarding the application. Several questions arise from this type of Dept. of En. thinking: 1] All Govt lands belong to the residents but unless you live on them, you are not considered directly effected. As the only residents living in the area are upstream of the Storm Sewer outflow, there is no one directly effected. I tried to get directly effect status when Rocky's drinking water was under threat. I was told as I was one person and as the other residents of Rocky didn't say anything, my concern did not matter. 2] If not the residents speaking for their land, then who does? Just thought I might inform you of how your trout streams are managed. regards, Don

Gaffer, Unless things have changed a lot in the past short while, the Demerast folks are now out of the business and the business was sold. Builders have attempted to contact the new owner w/o success. And about 1/2 of the cost of cane is getting it to Alberta. My first order in 1978 was $600 for cane - $600 for delivery from Demerast. Knew the Demerast people well. For western N. America, Royer is cheaper because of shipping. regards, Don

Nearly all the rods I use are 8' or less as most are cane and they get heavy beyond 8' long. When I use a longer rod, it is 9'. Got one 10'er maybe 20 years ago for all the reasons mentioned above. Doesn't cast worth a crap. Maybe the rods are better now. And Osbornes - you should try to keep the rods and reels under 50. Storage becomes an issue otherwise. Don

Folks, I've enjoyed watching the champions of this or that worry about fish. The last tussle was throat pumps. But there are larger issues! Anybody visit Cochrane lately and looked @ the Bow. God what a mess. Brought to you by your local electrical generation company. Do you think there may be any trout habitat left? And what happens to river below gen. dams is illegal in other places. But this is Alberta. So rather than worry about on or two trout, maybe we should worry about a whole river. Just to make you fell better, the same "kill the river by generation" goes on in the N. Sask. and Brazeau. And this is just one example of destruction. TU's fish rescue every year points to game fish being flushed down irrigation dams to die. Other than the effort of fish rescue, what has been done to stop the killing of game fish. Nothing - this is Alberta. And for the last example we had Rock Snot, Mud snails and other invasives. These destroy rivers. Other govts all over the globe are doing something about the issue. What is Alberta doing? You guessed it - nothing although when I asked the Director of Fisheries what SRD was prepared to do, he offered a committee whose meetings I'm sure would be canceled due to lack of interest. So rather than getting excited about a trout or two, maybe we should turn out attention of what kills whole rivers. regards, Don

Kungfool, You dumped just ahead of fishing season - good choice. Show up only when the snow flies. doctork, Plastic bottles are one of those things that I often wonder if the inventor considered the consequences. Something like Quads. Don

Clive, To allay your fears. The bottle was paid for, according to the advertising, by a Logging company. And better yet, the aluminum bottle was made in China and likely had chromium, cadmium and lead in the paint. Gets rid of the greenies one way or other. And I do know what you mean about the houses. I was raised in 850 sq. ft. My kids were raised in 1100 sq ft. My grandkids are being raised in 3000 sq ft. Damn silliness. Don