DonAndersen

Guys, Wished I could help. I does look somewhat like some of the bobbins Herters sold 30+ years ago. Neat stuff. Don

Guys, Badger talked about Antistatic bags, Wonder Bread bags + some other ideas. Here are some of the things I've tried: 1] Anti-static bags 2] Cereal box liners 3] Plastic bags 4] Vinyl 5] Epoxies 6] Super Glues 7] Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails 8] Floss treated with acetone Each of them seems to work sometimes!!! Any other ideas of what to try? catch ya' Don

This was shamelessly copied from another site and I can't wait for Orvisonly to pop in with his take. Don Fear, Greed, and Crisis Management: A Neuroscientific Perspective By Andrew W. Lo The alleged fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is a timely and powerful microcosm of the current economic crisis, and it underscores the origin of all financial bubbles and busts: fear and greed. Using techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscientists have documented the fact that monetary gain stimulates the same reward circuitry as cocaine — in both cases, dopamine is released into the nucleus accumbens. Similarly, the threat of financial loss activates the same fight-or-flight circuitry as physical attacks, releasing adrenaline and cortisol into the bloodstream, which results in elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and alertness. These reactions are hardwired into human physiology, and while some of us are able to overcome our biology through education, experience, or genetic good luck, the vast majority of the human population is driven by these “animal spirits” that John Maynard Keynes identified over 70 years ago. From this neuroscientific perspective, it is not surprising that there have been 17 banking-related national crises around the globe since 1974, the majority of which were preceded by periods of rising real-estate and stock prices, large capital inflows, and financial liberalization. Extended periods of prosperity act as an anesthetic in the human brain, lulling investors, business leaders, and policymakers into a state of complacency, a drug-induced stupor that causes us to take risks that we know we should avoid. In the case of Madoff, seasoned investors were apparently sucked into the alleged fraud despite their better judgment because they found his returns too tempting to pass up. In the case of subprime mortgages, homeowners who knew they could not afford certain homes proceeded nonetheless, because the prospects of living large and benefiting from home-price appreciation were too tempting to pass up. And investors in mortgage-backed securities, who knew that the AAA ratings were too optimistic given the riskiness of the underlying collateral, purchased these securities anyway because they found the promised yields and past returns too tempting to pass up. If we add to these temptations a period of financial gain that anesthetizes the general population — including C.E.O.’s, chief risk officers, investors, and regulators — it is easy to see how tulip bulbs, internet stocks, gold, real estate, and fraudulent hedge funds could develop into bubbles. Such gains are unsustainable, and once the losses start mounting, our fear circuitry kicks in and panic ensues, a flight-to-safety leading to a market crash. This is where we are today. Like hurricanes, financial crises are a force of nature that cannot be legislated away, but we can greatly reduce the damage they do with proper preparation. Because the most potent form of fear is fear of the unknown, the most effective way to combat the current crisis is with transparency and education. In the short run, one way to achieve transparency is for our president-elect to convene a “crisis summit” once in office, in which all the major stakeholders involved in this crisis, and their most knowledgeable subordinates, are invited to an undisclosed location for an intensive week-long conference. During this meeting, detailed information about exposures to “toxic assets,” concentrations of risky counterparty relationships, and other systemic weaknesses will be provided on a confidential basis to regulators and policymakers, and various courses of action can be proposed and debated in real time. Afterward, a redacted summary of this meeting should be provided to the public by the president, along with a specific plan for addressing the major issues identified during the conference. This process would go a long way toward calming the public’s fears and restoring the trust and confidence that are essential to normal economic activity. In the long run, more transparency into the “shadow banking” system; more education for investors, policymakers, and business leaders; and more behaviorally oriented regulation will allow us to weather any type of financial crisis. Regulation enables us to restrain our behavior during periods when we know we will misbehave; it is most useful during periods of collective fear or greed and should be designed accordingly. Corporate governance should also be revisited from this perspective; if we truly value naysayers during periods of corporate excess, then we should institute management changes to protect and reward their independence. If “crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” as some have argued, then we have a short window of opportunity — before economic recovery begins to weaken our resolve — to reform our regulatory infrastructure for the better. The fact that time heals all wounds may be good for our mental health, but it may not help maintain our economic wealth.

And for another crazy guys see: Must be a European thing. Probably comes from to many people living to close together. Thins some of them out. catch ya' Don

Guys, Here is a step by step from another site. Don http://homepage.ntlworld.com/radbard88/esbuzzer/

Jeffro, The rancher was removing a dam that he'd constructed to back up the water for his cows. He also related to me that the flat we were standing in had been covered with willows when he was a kid. All but one or two were gone, banks were eroded etc. Typical cow business along streams. What is very important is that he learned and will pass the learning onto his grandkids. I do doubt that DFO or Dept. of Environment or SRD or Coast Guard or any other Govt regulatory group was consulted on either placing of the dam or it's removal. I do realize that good intentions really can screw up a trout stream. Look @ the 3 Rivers Damn as a prime example. catch ya' Don

Guys, Doc Seaman's OH Ranch is doing much the same thing as Harps pointed out in Montana. See: http://www.ohranch.com/ranchbackgrounder.html And another story: Some years ago I was looking for a place to do a pontoon boat pick up on the upper Oldman River. Checked my MD maps and headed for the landowner's place. Knocked on the door and a older gal directed me towards the barns and corrals NW of the house. There they were - a old grizzled guy + a shiny rubber tired backhoe backed up to the stream digging away. No surprise for me. Seen it lots of times. The old guy and I hunkered and chewed for a time and he asked me what I was up to. Told him about the access - he says "Go ahead". Just when I turned to go he says " do you think that them little trout can get up through here now to spawn". Boy, did that spark a conversation. He related that cuts had used the stream for all the years his family had owned the property and he was trying to make amends for years of cow abuse. There is hope! catch ya' Don

Smitty, Cows and Fish is alive and doing good work. It is headed by Lorne Fitch a past Regional Biologist from southern Alberta. Lorne is a great guy who cares. They do assessments and help livestock producers all over Alberta do it a different way that was done 30 years ago. As Taco said, watershed groups have sprung up all over Alberta. Some are more effective than others of maintaining or improving stream health. Don

Guys, Many trout streams are closed as a result of the East Slopes Regulation changes. The biologists wanted to protect the fish that were in their overwintering pools from anglers targeting them. Could clean out a river population quite quickly. If the water were open, the Fish Cops would have to check out anglers. So it's two issues - biological and enforcement - angler safety has nothing to do with it. In my area, I lost the opportunity to fish Prairie Creek, Main Ram, Shunda Creek and on and on. I wasn't happy. catch ya' Don

Years ago in a section of Field and Stream magazine there was a column call Tapply's Tips. This bobbin holder was one of the "tips". Bobbins freely swinging were a pain. This bobbin holder resolved the irritation. The holder is made from a wire clothes hanger. Grab one end and roll around your 3/8" shaft vise. The turns have to be slack fit so that the bobbin holder will rotate when you have to get to the head of the fly. The other end was bent into a rough square with the open end lashed tight to the wire with string. A couple of coats of varnish on the lashings held the thing together for over 30 years. The top picture shows general layout, the bottom, the bobbin rest. Don

Needed a finished fly and hook holder. made this up of 3/4" plywood, a couple of 3/4" wood dowels cemented into place. The grey stuff is water pipe insulation available from most decent hardware stores @ a couple of bucks for 3' lengths. The insulation is foam and wears out so I hold it into place with elastic bands. Replace when needed. Don

Guys/Gals, Well I like to experiment. One thing I like to do is vary the colours of Scud Back by dying. Scud back is really bra elastic that is available in larger sewing shops. It comes in 1/4 & 3/8" widths. Well I needed to cut it to smaller widths. The tool below does just that. Cut about 1 1/2" into the end of the elastic and slip over the razor blade. Hold both ends with equal pressure and pull them past the blade controlling the width of cut with your other hand. I cut about 10 yards in 5 minutes. The angle material is aluminum c/w with light bolts to hold razor blade @ the right angle. NOTE: BUY GOOD RAZOR BLADES. THE CHINESE STUFF WON'T CUT IT!!! catch ya' Don

Guys, Lots of us use Pentax WP cameras. A guy on the BC forum posted this link. http://www.fit2paddle.com/photokayaker/C56...3629/index.html Looks interesting. Don

Some more, Something we all share is scissors. I started with embroidery scissors [#1] some 50 years ago. They were cheap and readily available. About 20 years later when I was tying commercially, I found that picking up and laying down of scissors was a real pain/time waster and modified the thumb hole of the scissor by cutting off the thumb section and brazing it higher on the scissor shaft. [#2] Worked like a hot damn. When they needed replacement, I went to silver soldering for a "cleaner" finish. [#3]. Then I tried curved blade scissor and epoxied the thumb section on. [#4]. They worked OK but I really didn't like the curved blade so I bought a set of Iris Scissors from a Medical supply store. Costly - about $40 or so 20 years ago. The thumb was again silver soldered on [ #5]. Somebody was looking over my shoulder and decided to produce just the scissors I needed. [#6]This were sold by Griffin Tying Tool Company but a brief look at their web site doesn't show them. [ I'm not sure that they were Griffin tools but may have been Anvil Scissors]. Finally I found a supplier of scissors that really does the job.[#7] Anvil Products sells a great line of scissors. See http://anvilusa.com/fly.htm. I use the Bio-tech long reach type and the best part is that Anvil sell scissors for us left handed types. So there ya' go - a 50 year evolution of scissors. catch ya' Don

DonnieM, Try http://clarksclassicflyrodforum.yuku.com/f...o-Fly-Rods.html There is a bunch of folks that collect on this forum. Don

And a third This tool is used to twist dubbing or herl. I always use a thread loop to reinforce herl ropes. This twister makes the job quite easy. Further, I've used it for twisting various combinations like: * golden pheasant tail fibers + gold wire * ringneck pheasant and red wire * various types of dubbing + flashabou * dubbing + flashabou + wire of various colors * antron carpet yarns + wire The handle is the remains of a Matarelli Rotating Hackle Plier that the jaw broke off. Spread the handle loop enough to get broken part off and reinstall the Sunrise Hackle Plier. This twister + a rotary vise gets lots of interesting effects. Some that occasionally catch fish. The heat shrink tubing I got somewhere. Needs replacement every now and then. For those w/o a heat gun to shrink the tubing- your wife/girl friend/boy friend generally has a hair blower that works just fine to shrink the tubing. catch ya' Don

And another for turning epoxy flies. The base and ends are 6" wide oak, the shafting is 1/2" rod, the white foam material is where the flies are stuck into. It was salvaged from a motor shipment packing. The motor is from a barbeque rotisserie. The bearings in the left side is a piece of UMHW bored to 1/2" and screwed to the side plate. The shaft into the rotisserie motor was milled to 3/8" square and slack fit. It runs quiet. Cost was about $30.00. catch ya' Don

Guys/Gals, After the post by Flytyer, it got me to thinking that there might be lot of tools and inventions that tiers have made, modified or invented to do some technique or another. So, what are yours? Here are some of the things that I've made over the past while. I own a Dyna King Barracuda and really didn't like the balance of the head so I made up a counter-balance of 7/8" ni-silver, that I bored to 1/4 and hot glued onto the handle. The handle set screw was loosened and rotated 180 degrees. Now with very light pressure on the rotating brake screw, the head stays anywhere in a 360 circle. The bobbin holder that came with the vise was a pain as it took effort to hit the little groove every time so I built another out of a slice of UMHW that I carved to the shape I wanted. The rod is a stainless steel 1/8" welding rod with the flux removed. No more looking for the little groove in the bobbin holder. More later after I get the pictures resized. catch ya' Don

I fish 'cause I have to. Mind you, I now draw the line @ fishing through ice. Used to do it. The only excitement was when I fell asleep and toppled off my 5 gallon pail. Now I figure ice is only good for poor whiskey. The good stuff doesn't need it. Don

Guys, Just find it curious: * that the Mega Mall NE of Calgary had to "buy" water from an irrigation district to supply their business as Calgary wouldn't do it. A CDN first that sets us up for water exports to the States as now water has value and is a commodity * ranchers are told not to supply water to their cows * the Bow is over allocated 130% * Okotoks is committed to limiting growth due some issues like water - this growth limit will likely be extended to both Black Diamond and Turner Valley. * no more new water licenses are being issued for the Bow drainage or is it the whole S. Sask basin * and Calgary builds more "lake" communities. Seems like the Provincial Govt is really not doing their job of managing water well. Creating lakes in a semi-desert just to add to life style strikes me as a tad ridiculous. catch ya' Don

Hi, Does anyone know the source water for the man made lakes Lake Midnapore, Sundance Lake, Lake Chaparral or the lake in NE Okotoks? Just curious - watching every ending news stories about water availability dropping in the Bow drainage. Wondered if this water comes from the Bow/Elbow/Sheep to fill these things. Do recall some years ago when Okotoks was restricting water supplies to residents all the while a man made lake was being filled by the developer. The rancher who told was cut off from emergency water supplies from the Sheep for his cows as his wells were dry. regards, Don

Hot Damn - there is a name for everything. Used this technique about 50 years ago fishing with maggots for whitefish on the Highwood. For the bottom weight, I originally used 3 nails captured by a rubber band. The band broke when I hung up. Graduated to using speedometer cables in short lengths. Found that they would "snake" through the rocks. After speedometer cables got hard to find, I used steel clothes line wire. Nobody in the neighborhood was safe. As a brief aside, steel is a lot less damaging to the stream and downstream users than lead shot. catch ya' Don

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