DonAndersen

orvisonly, Try Stats Can. - you'll enjoy the ugly facts. The sell out of Canada has nothing to do with right vs left - - Conservative vs Liberal vs NDP - they all are @ fault. Or more appropriately - we are. Yup - you and me for allowing it to happen. I love my country. Don't like what the political parties are doing to it. Not sure of the weak minded left - after all three PM's of Canada have told the American President of the day to get stuffed, they weren't interested in another American war. Guess what - 4 times it happened, the PM's were all Liberal and one did it twice. And two were from Quebec. The one that did it twice was a Nobel Prize winner. And orvisonly - you should change your moniker - Orvis - from Vermont - and you know about CDN politics. Give me a break. regards, Don And Rickr - you bet you got it right - the present election process got us in this position of pockets of power base with real or perceived regional differences. Hardly a way to keep a country together. Just think - - the Bloc would lose seats + the other parties would have representation across Canada under proportional representation. Hardly a bad thing.

Rickr is right!! See fair vote Canada @ http://www.fairvote.ca/ Don

Some facts: * Total tax revenue in Canada as a percentage of GDP puts us down a 21st place of the 30 OECD counties. That was before Harper's 2007 tax cuts. * Wages as a percentage of GDP in 1992 were 55.4%, 1993 - 55%, 2005> 50.3%. A 5.2% difference was $ 7.3 billion in 2005 * Corporate Profits as a percentage GDP in 1992 4.7%, in 1993 > 5.7% , 2006>13.9% * Between 1976>1990, average per capita income hardly changed, the top 0.01% of earners saw their income double. * in 2005 the average top-paid CEO made $9.6 million and the top 100 ranged from $ 2.87>74.82 Million * the highest paid CEO makes as much as a small town of 1969 people working @ average wages * in 2005 the pay for corporate directors was up 41% over 2 years - about 10 times the average worker increase. * in 2003 net corporate profits were $102.6 Billion, 2004>132.3 Billion, 2006>`168.2 Billion * Investment in new machinery in 1998 was 86% of profits compared to 2006 to 47% Don

Guys, I have a lake with a TDS of 350. I have another with a conductivty of 185 and a TFR of 95. Now can I compare apples & oranges? I'm working from 2 data sets here and wish to compare them. Help!!, Don

Guys/Gals, A brief history of Canada Vote Conservative. Every 20 years or so Canada does. Then the Conservatives come to power, last a term or 2 and disappear back to their roots. Canada's equivalent to a dose of the "salts". But do recall Brian Mulroney - his popularity was less when he disappeared than the number of people who believed Elvis was alive. Don

firefrog, So TFR and TDS are not the same. But can conductivity be used to express TDS? Strikes me that the larger amount of dissolved minerals [TDS], the higher the conductivity. As the bugs & plants use minerals for growth, the higher the TDS, the better the water is able to support biomass. regards, Don

Guys/Gals, Looking over some data on productive waters. Some use TDS [ total disolved solids], electrical conductivity [ microSiemens/centermitre] or TFR [Total Fiterable Residue]. TFR is exprressed as: TFR=0.07 + 0505 * conductivity. OK - the question: Can TDS be expressed as TFR? Help!!!! Don

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Are your flies dressed like this: When they should look like this: Don

Have used Talon, Daiichi, Tiemco, Herters, Orvis, Partridge, Mustad. Started with Mustad 50 years ago. Was right the first time. I use R50s, C68, 80050BR and C49s for most flies and Partridge Capt. Hamilton L3A's for the >20's. Don

Dust catch ya' Don

ADC, You might just be right. Who knows who wrote who and when. But what is clear, from the first draft to the second, nearly all the changes were a result of the folks who I wrote and asked for comment that were forwarded along. This resulted in the nearly complete rewirte to the poilcy statement. Curiously, of the nearly 50 people I contacted, only about a dozen responded to me or to Dave. Dave Christensen made mention of the number @ the last Roundtable. This, of course, flies in the face of the dozens or perhaps hundreds of folks that have parked their butts on my truck tailgate lamenting on the piss poor lake fishing we have. Guess talk is cheap, doing takes some effort. The first letter sent on the Quality issue to the regional Bio. about 5 years ago. The letter to the Minister, maybe 1 1/2 years ago. Today, was @ the first in Alberta Low elevation Lake [located near Rocky Mtn Hse.] that is C&R. Landed 6 over 3 lbs. Am off to the second low elevation C&R Lake [also located near Rocky Mtn. Hse] September 10 to do a lake sampling along with a dozen others. Lake sampling is required to determine growth rates. This could of course be done by netting but that would seem to be silly on a low stocking #'s C&R water. This above sampling is a mirror of the sampling @ the First C&R lake in Alberta done earlier this year. regards, Don

Guys/Gals, Here is your opportunity to have input into the Quality lake policy. The policy is a direct result of a letter I wrote to the Minister asking him/his department to develop a policy for an increase in lakes where we can catch a fish exceeding 2 lbs. So far the policy has been through several revisions with input from a bunch of folks. Here is a chance for you to help. regards, Don http://www.mywildalberta.com/Home/Fishing/...routsurvey.aspx

Guys/Gals, The HUGE Canadian flag flying over Bass Pro's Balzac location. What's with that. Like we don't know it an US company and Bass don't exist up here. We got a few Pros though or so I've heard. catch ya' Don

Guys/Gals, When I was on Stauffer last week, a friend missed one of 2 trout that were rising so I suggested that we sit on the bank and see if #2 comes up again. A large female of over 23" ambled over to see what we were up to. She was less than 3' from my boots. After checking us out, she slowing ambled her way back to the other bank. And I saw 2 cutthroat fighting 3 days ago. They were evenly matched. Around and around they went. Biting each others tails and fins. One even got a hold of the others jaw and gave it a good twist. All of this took over a minute. Fumbled for camera in each case. I need a quick draw camera. catch ya' Don

Guys, Heard on the weekend that Sims boots with Stealth soles about sold out in the US. New Zealanders ordering them by the hundreds @ a time. Don

Spent the last 3 days playing around from the South Ram>north of Nordegg. The Quadders, although all over the place in the south Ram area, seemed to stay to established trails. The horses, of course, didn't. Heading home from Nordegg, we detoured north and passed Quadder camp after Quadder camp. Saw over 30 heading down the roads. At the stream where we stopped to fish, 2 of the quadders turned upstream and ripped around in the water for a couple of hundreds yards. Several of the quadders parked in the stream and washed their quads. Some of them, rather than doing it by hand, drove around and around in the creek till the quads were clean. To be fair, only 5 of the 30 or so were an issue. Every possible cut line or seismic trail was beat bare ground. Gotta love 'em. Don

New Releases New Zealand considers felt boot ban in fight against didymo July 28, 2008 Source: Fly-Fishing Retailer Wearing felt-soled boots by freshwater anglers could soon be banned because of the high risk of spreading didymo and other aquatic organisms. Fish & Game New Zealand said today the ban had been discussed with Conservation Steve Minister Chadwick who agreed with it "in principle". The ban, expected to become effective from October 1, would apply to felt-soled waders or footwear with a sole of felted, matted or woven fibrous material when sports fishing.

bhurt, I didn't single out Jensen, Castuserraticus did - Whoops. Am pleased that one or two commercial operations do take some responsibility for their clients AndyW, Not anti guide - just wondering how the owner of the public resource will feels when he's pushed out by commercial operators. There is a commercial canoe operation near Rocky that takes over a local lake displacing all who want to enjoy it. They don't compensate anyone either. What is a NR? Taeke, I am aware of three users of public lands for commercial operations. Logging - pays stumpage, ranchers pay yearly rentals for grazing privileges on public land, Oil companies pay royalties - of the three , two are renewable resources. regards all, Don

Cast... Jensen assisted Barry Mitchell for a couple of years with Streamwatch. Barry and I had already formulated the concept. Jensen also ran on and on calling me names when he was asked by me whether or not he would consider cleaning his clients gear to prevent WD, Mud Snails etc in Alberta I think after reading his ramblings that I finally concluded that he thought that the diseases were not an issue and he could care less. Curiously, the Regional Biologist for the Alberta Govt [ now retired] had attempted to get the guides in this area to use disposable wading equipment for their foreign clients. He was stonewalled. Yup - they care!! Don

Guys, Perhaps it is time to limit guide activity. Lots of states do not allow guides in certain areas and if I recall correctly @ certain times. Two words work here - - - compensation and mitigation. How an I compensated for lost recreational fishing opportunity by a commercial operation on a recreational fishery and if he chooses not to compensate me, how does he intend to mitigate his actions so as not to effect my quality experience. After all, he is exploiting a public resource w/o compensating anyone. And don't feed me he pays taxes crap - if he worked @ McDonald's, he'd make about the same money and "guide" issue would cease to exist. Don

Cow... Tired of playing with this thing.Send me email and I'll answer your question. Don

bigbadbrown, Tied @ the head and bend of the hook. Tied from #8>#16. I kinda like the 16's. Don

Guys, You want movement - the best SJW I've used was nothing more than a rubber rubber band tied on a hook. Cheap too! Don