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Thanks for the post, so are sure some sweet browns there.

I would second this as max is very good at teaching new guys what to do and how to approch the river. Max is on this board as Maxwell.

Also if we submit photo's for this are we giving up the rights to the photo?

How are you fishing the stone? Alot of times I like to Swing stones, some nights are good other nights not so good, need more info to help out, what technique are you using. Also like I said in a previouse post, have cofidence in what you are doing that way you are fishin and not fighting yourself.

First thing you must do is change your attitude, when fly fishin you have to have cofendince in what you are doing, that way you are fishin and not fighting yourself. What type of fishin are you doing? More info and I might be able to help you out.

Personally I use a 3wt 9 foot Loop Multi on the Bow for dries and on the small streams. The rod is a mid flex rod and is a bit forgivening, I also like it cause with the big brutes on the bow the flex in the rod is just absoultly amazing and can pretty much handle most fish on the bow also if your a experince fisher, but time and practice will bring you up to par. If you are looking for a faster action rod I suggest the Loop Opti Creek or the Loop Opti Stream, both are amazing rods.

I think brookies taste good too, I mean..........

Steve, Where you fishin the bow or somewhere else?

Well my day is getting better and better, I thought I would have to work till like 1 or 2 and then I had my new person come in and said she was working also, with three of us in there is no point in me beeing here so I am outta here in like 15mins to go slam the bow with my 3wt and my new Hatch reel.

FNG, What no dry action yet, man you really need to get out there. The biggest thing I have learned so far is that my casting grip needs improvement and I have to watch out that I am not cracking my wrist during my cast and lastly to go gentler on my set as I am pulling out alot of hooks. Never taken a course with Jim, but I do highly respect him and I am sure you will have a blast. When you get back PM me and we'll see if we can get out one evening to go after some dry fly action.

Rehsiflylf, Last thursday night when I was out in about a span of 20 mins I had 6 hits (Too bad my reel I was using on my three weight just sucked ass) I would say a good 90% of these guys where bows and they averaged in length between 15 to 20, but I'll tell you that I am lovin it cause on my 3wt those 15 inchers that wer usally just haul in is such a great fight, don't know if I will be pulling out the spey or the 6wt for the next couple of months, only time will tell. BTW, the PMD's and PED's are working very well and the Skids are working extremly well during the day with the caddis in the evening. My boss just told me I am too wound up today and she is pretty sure it is because I want to get out of work so I can hit the bow and do some seriouse fishin.

Darrin, At the end of the day that is what really matter, what are you really using it for and what do you want......

As I sit here on a saturday morning I find myself thinking about what type of fishing and where I am going to fish the next two days. For the most half as I work I try and think of ways to get out early so I can hit the bow and start slammin fish, espically last week as me and max took out our 3wts and went out to do some dryfly fishin. It was alot of fun to take out my 3wt (even though I had to go out and purcashe a new hatch reel for it) and was happy that max made me take it out as I was starting to get bored of doing the samething over and over, now I find myself with a new challange and found that step in my walk that I had thought was gone..... With the dry fly fishin beeing epic last week I can not wait for this week and plan on beeing out on the river as much as possible. How many other people out there suffer from this just like me. I know when the dry fly starts its hard to keep me inside or at work. At time I curse this sport (I spend way too much money on things releated to fly fishing then I should) while other times you just can't remove the smirk from my face and the friends that I have made fishing is well worth it. Tight lines to all and let all take a step back and look at what we got.....

Hey Max, when you get your stwict rods you gotta let me give it a shot, I haven't tried casting one yet infact I don't think I have ever casted a switch rod before, however everything I have read about these rods I have yet to hear anything bad about them.

Nice Photo steve, love those browns they look aswome.

Personally I think you can not go wrong with the Pentex or the Olympus. I have many friends that use the pentex and they all like it alot, I have the Olympus 850ws which I like very much. I do find that at times my Olympus takes a more vivid photo then some of the photo's I have seen with the pentex (Might havce to do that I had a professional photographer set up all the setting in my camera) Either way I would look at the options for both camera and find out what YOU want in a camera and go from there!

I hope so......

Here is how I see it, you say it really got you steamed, if it bothered you that much then why didn't you do anything at the time. You say that you couldn't get down there on your bike, sorry but to me that is not a good reason, just a excuse, cause if you could see him gilling the fish from the Southland bridge then you could get down to him, most likely he was just down the island which is in yelling distance, like I said if it bothered you that much then there is ALWAYS something you can do. Chances are if the person is gilling the fish then they are not part of the boards cause how many arguments have there been about fish handling, espically in photo's which alot of the lurkers are looking for (Pictures give away spots sometimes.......) Also your previouse two calls into RAP has nothing to do with what you saw those are totally diffrent cases and has nothing to do with the current one you were talking about, you also SUGGEST that he might of been keeping fish which when in doubt call RAP. Please Paul understand I do not mean to put you down but I see your post as meaningless........ But that is just my own opion.

Build a poo snowman......

Here is how I see it, There are alot of people out there that were brought up one way or another with handling fish and that is how they were educated. Alot of people that I have meet on the river with poor handling skills just needs to be educated, nothing wrong with the personjust needed to be educated. It really burns me (no offence to PAV) when people come on here and bitch and complain aboput these issuse yet they did nothing about it. Next time I suggest doing something. Is it true some people are concern with approching others, sure but what I have found is that if you go with the attitude to help the person and not with violent intentions then everything is okay. Worst case, report it to RAP......

*yawn* I see you still spouting out the same crap..............

Why would it be a problem? As long as you are following the regs then there is nothing wrong with it in my books.

Nah I don;t think you will see that, wishful thinking..... Big reason why I say Phaneuf will stay in calgary is the simple fact he was brent sutter all star defenseman when he coached him in Red Deer. I personally think all big deals for Calgary are done with. Who knows what can happen IN SUTTER WE TRUST

Lynn, The flames are working on their goalies, they signed curtis for 2 years and if he gets to play more this year watch out I think he will be a bright star for us in the future. Also you will never see phenuf go cause he played for brett in red deer and was very good so watch out I think he will light it up this year. As for Bouwmeester, the flames have 11 million open right now so it is a possiblity to see him here and with rehguer and phenulf watch out. As for losing Camillierie that was seen a long time ago but the flames picked up ollie to replace him, look at camiliere's goals after we got oillie. I think for having no real big draft choices I think the flames came out of it pretty dang good, wanting to see this kid the flames pick up out of the sweedish elite league and see what he can do. With 5 sutters in the organization and a complete overhaul of the coaching staff I am very excited about see how the flames will do.

Steve, Its okay they are just excited that they got a old has-been coach, all jokes aside, the northwest division is such a crazy tuff division.