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Man, I am upset that I can not make it due to staff quiting on me with no notice. Hope everyone has a good time I know I will be thinking about it.

Oh man that was classic Pacreseltoro

Steve that shot was freakin hiliroious I almost pissed my pants laughing, it really does look like the snake is smiling. Snake, aswome photo's can't wait till my two weeks off to spend some time in the mountains away from all the crap the city life brings.

Thanks for the info, I thought I read something somewhere but I wasn't sure of it.

I could be wrong on this, but if we have a summer with low water (once high water is gone) and we have alot of weeds does this not choke out alot of the oxyegen that the fish need?

Hey rick, You have had a new toy for like a month, a certain reel you just haven't picked up yet. LOL

Thanks for the location Chris, now I am going to go out with my long line and destroy the run then come back to the forums and complain about how slow it is, hehehehehehe Anyways nice photo's we need to get out one of these days and do some mountain fishin.

The past two weeks for me has been very productive. Thinking about the water level in some of my high water spots the river is at the same level while other spots are lower. Not much mud at all when comparing it to the last three years. Most fish I have been catching this year is between the sizes of 16 to 21, I have caught a couple of beast this year, I know my sizes as I put eletrical tape at certain messagerments on my rod so I can quickly check. Personally I don't need to have to post sizes cause like everything else here, someone ALWAYS has a opion and what to tell you diffrent. Personally for me when I post it is about the experince and not a ego trip, I'll leve that to my facebook.

Correct me if I am wrong but is a blood worm not a auquadic worm? I goodled it and it states that it is. Here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycera_(genus) Bloodworms are poor swimmers but good burrowers, living on the sandy or silty bottoms of the intertidal or subtidal regions. Though usually marine, they can tolerate low salt levels in the water, and also poor oxygen levels. Bloodworms and all water worms have adapted to life in the sand and silt for the protection it offers.

Throwing kindling on the fire but honestly who is anyone to tell anyone else what they can or can not say? Last time I checked we lived in a country that had freedom of speach. I have taken out people from the boards in the past to honey holes I have discovered only to have them tell everyone they now and so forth and so forth. At first I got mad but over the years I just shurgged my shoulders and found new spots. In the end if you don't want anyone to know then don't say *hit, but if someone else says something then it is just something that you have to live with, does it suck, sure does but what else are you going to do about it, cry on a internet forum about it?

I agree with this, as I have tried both and find that the Airflo 40+ shoots alot better and I can do all of my single hand spey casts with it, and the biggest thing is it is $60 cheeper so I can almost buy three 40+ shoot lines for the price of 1. However I do not know how the longivity of the two compare, I know with my hardcore addiction to fly fishin when I was using the 40+ I would go through 1 every 3 month or so. I also did not like the noise that the sharkskin was making (but that is a personal thing as I refuse to buy a reel that is loud, prefeer the silky smooth and extremly quite reels myself)

I took Dan's evening class last year and really enjoyed it quite a bit and highly suggest this course to anyone who spey fishes. Beeing a Instruction Dan has a way of explaining things that makes everything seem to click in place, only thing, if you use too much top hand watch out for flying rocks (inside joke)

Dan McKrimmon will be giving a course at the end of the month. The saturday course is for beginners, which is what I suggest you take, the cost is only $80 for the day I belive it is from 9am to 5pm. Here is the web site with more information. http://www.bestgearsales.com/proddetail.asp?prod=ClgyWrkShp Here is a quick note about Dan from his Web Site Dan McCrimmon Dan is a member of the Federation of Fly Fishers Casting Board of Governors, Master Certified Casting Instructor, and a Two-handed Casting Instructor program examiner. He is also a respected examiner for the Federation of Fly Fishers International program. Dan has international warm water, cold water, river, lake and salt-water fly fishing experience, and is an experienced instructor, whose goal is to have both his beginner and advanced students meet their maximum potential. Dan’s focus has been learning from the masters in the art of underhand casting and Scandinavian style fishing with two-handed rods. He is also a proud Member of the GUIDELINE Fly Products Power Team ‘His precise and humorous training sessions and demonstrations deliver fly casting techniques that will stay with you for ever’. Richard Wentz - Editor- Flyfisher Magazine

Hey jeff how did the brookie taste??

A couple of weeks tyler took me out to Lake Sundance and man I could not belive the size of the stock bruts I was pulling out of the water, had me shakin by the end of the day and there was times I was positive I was going to break my 6wt 9' 6" Went out to Lake Bonavista a couple of days ago and the samething there, It wouldn't surprise me if these were from the same stock, man what fun it was fighting those pigs, when I get home from work tonight I will post one of the biggest fatties I have ever caught in a stock lake, I will however mentioned I did find it kind of boring until the fish hit.

Quinn might be good for Edmonton but we had Keenan which has alot of great acolites, but in the NEW mistake free NHL he just couldn't hold his own. You talk about calgary not having a cup in a long time, well when was the last time Quinn or Edmonton won a cup? Heck he did alright for toronoto but still could not get a Stanley Cup (really at the end of the day all those aculites really mean *hit unless you are winning Stanley Cups), even when they threw all that money into the team to try and buy a good team, what did he do, and if he was so good of a coach why isn't he still there? Not to sure on this but when was the last time Quinn made a appearence as a coach in the Stanely Cup finals? Alot of these coaches that have been around were great in the old cap free and could get away with not playin a mistake free hockey, but in the new NHL this just can not happen, ask Keenan where he got. Only time can tell if Quinn will do good for edmonton or not, better then what they had. But alot of these OLD greats that are getting recycled with other teams are just not getting it done, its like they are trying to organzize a team like the days of old but it just does not work in the new NHL. I personally am a die hard Flames fan, but I always hope that the other canadain teams are all in the playoffs cause we are Hockey afterall.

Like most people have said I also think it is UV, as I have stuff not as old as some of the people but still in mint condition. Unforntantly my fly tieing material has slowly taken over my ting desk and my computer desk, I have crap everywhere, but I try to tie at least 3 to 6 flies a night so I tend to go through alot of material. Need to make another trip to the fly shop to replenish some of my supplies.

Aswome fish man, looks like it was worth beeing out, just sucks that I am stuck at work till Sunday and tring to get over a wicked cold. Mike is a aswome dude, went out with him about 2 or 3 weeks ago on his jet and had one of the best times on the bow I have had in a long time. Not that we caught alot of fish it was just nice to get out with someone that was similar to myself, that always makes the fishin fun.

Brain, If you want zero tolerance and stiffer fines then WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? I really don't know what you are doing but what I see ids you complaining about it on the forums which in my own personal opion is just a cry for attention (Please note I could be wrong) If this is something that is bothering you as much as you say it is then why are you not lobbing to change these rules? I think it should be up to the C.O myself, cause if you get someone from overseas that fishes alot and keeps the fish they may not know any better, would it be fair to throw the books at them then? I remeber when I first started fly fishing I bought my lience at Canadain Tire and I was never asked or given a regs book so how would I know then where was closed and what rules was for what and when I got my first regs book I had to ask a C.O how to use it because it was so overwhelming and I didn't know what was from the west slopes, or east slopes. I think we do not need to punish people more but we need to EDUCATE people more. I hate it when people just assume things others are doing, sure some could be bad and other could just not know any better. I remeber one day I was walking by the boat launch and noticed a indian fellow fishing so I walked up to him and started talking to him, it turned out that today was the first day he was in canada from India, and when I asked him if he got his liecene he didn't know he needed one cause in India it is not required, so I told him about our rules directed him to where to go to get a lience and suggested that he asked for a regs book. As I was leaving he was there with all the proper stuff and was 100% legit. Does this guy deserve to get the book throwen at him, I think not, all he needed was some education. Also I was talking to a c.o one day in fish creek and asked them why they give out so many warning and I was told it is because when they have multiple charges alot of time the person will plea bargin (if they do not have a bad crimal recorded for the offences they are beeing charged with) and alot of time the courts will give them the lesser of the fine, so the c.o alot of the time will charge someone with the more seriouse offence and give written warnning on their lience with the minor ones, that way the offender is charged but doesn't get away with a minor fine.

Snow in calgary at this time of the year is no surprise I remeber a couple of years back while coaching football it snowed in the middle of August.

I agree with you, but as per your community lake rules you are allowed to keep one, so in that they can take whatever they want, when reading your fishin rules I saw nothing about size, maybe it is time to set a size limit? I always educate people while on the river the proper way to release a fish, when I see mishandling (alot of time it just that people do not know and all they see is the horrific fishin shows on t.v of the supposeive expert just tossing them back in) I TRY and show them the proper way but you know always have a jackass somewhere. Ever though of making up some signs and hanging them around the dock section? Lamination would protect it some from the elements but prolong exposers to sun, rain, snow, etc... would make it last not very long. In the end I was just a guest at your lake so I do not pay community fees there so in turn don;t really have much of a voice to say or do anything.

I did notice when I was there some floating, I think it has more to do with uneducated people handling the trout. Mine released fairly easy and after 20 mins I didn't see it come back up so I think it was released safely.

After the first piggy I caught I knew how to play the trout so I wouldn't break my rod, I just didn't expect them to be so piggy. They are very simlair in size to the ones that are stocked in Lake Bonavista and I know those ones are without a doubt triploids. When you guys stock the lake do you close it down for a month, it has been awhile since I have been to Lake Bonavista, but I remeber as a kid they use to always close the lake (water area) down for a month when they stocked, that and they were doing something with the weeds, I belive just trimming them back, Dune is a bit older then me so he might be able to recall what they did, not to sure they do it anymore.

Just out of curiosity, but did the netting system (I will admit that I know very little when it comes down to netting) catch any other species of fish. I had the priviliage of fishing there last sunday and you have something really nice going on there, and those brute stock tht where added in has sure made fishin nice, I really thought I was going to break my 6wt 9' 6" on a big piggy I caught. BTW how the hell did perch get into the lake? I have lived in Lake Bonavista since 88' and I have never seen the problem you are having, however Lake Bonavista does dwaerf your lake in size but I don;t think that would matter too too much.

Hmmmmmmm, intresting, I personally own two pairs of the cc4, the old design and the new design. My old design the pockets were 100% water proof, infact I put my wallet in the pocket all the time to make sure I do not lose them. I have yet to waer my new pair, as my old ones are still working like a charm, I have noticed a few changes in designs with the new ones vs the old ones. For example, the gravel gard this time around is only ankle high, which is a good thing cause with my old ones they went up to my quads and filled with water, no biggie just pull up on the leg and they drain. I do like the high gravel guard as it save my waders alot of time from barb wire fences. I am wondering if this is a bad batch of waders, I would call seriia and see what they have to say, I will test out mine with the garden hose tonight and see if any water gets into the inside of the pocket.