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Aswome to hear, I always like that area even though fishin is a bit slower down there the scenery is absoultly awsome.

Al, happy birthday, hope you catch your fair share today.

My golden rule is always to say Hi to everyone on the river, regardless to weather they have a fly or spin rod in their hand. I also wave at boats floating by and if they are close enough ask them how their day is going. I also exchange any information or what is working for me. I have found the nicer you are to people the more enjoyable the experince is out on the river. Good things comes to good people or so that is what I think.

hahaha I didn't really think it was funny till I saw the buildings.....

The Start to the End of the World "STONE FLIES ATTACK CALGARY IN ATTEMPT TO RECLAIM LAND TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM" "STONE FLIES REVOLUTION AGAINST CURRENT SRD MANAGEMENT" "ATTACK OF THE KILLER STONE FLIES" (This is a rip off of the old movie title ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES)

Only if I can shave it first Chris......... Bow River Possie strikes again, lol

Hi my name is Brad and my friends say I have a problem, even though I do not see a problem. I usally spend all my pay cheaque on fishin related stuff, trips tying material, termial tackle, lines, etc....... I could be spending my money on crack, which is why I do not see a problem. Okay all jokes aside, I know wat people say, I have thousands of dollers invested into my fly fishin addiction and wouldn't dream of spending my money on anything else.

why do you say it can not change? People should always be polite regardless to what they are doing. And to compare the river 10 years ago, even 5 years ago is kind of unrealistic, just look at how the city has growen in that time period, and you think angling pressure would not go up with a large city such as calgary on its door step? Also we should not have to put up with the stupid people on the river, to do that or think that is just giving the idoits every excuse to do what they do. I find the more people I talk friendly to and educate them the less amount of idoits I see on the river, attitude and the way you present yourself to people will always be the way people treat you, act like a ***hole or jerk and you will be treated like one. It is our duty as stweards of the river to educate people and show them what a wonderful river we have. And if you want to blame the internet it is some fault but there has been books for years that talked about how great our river is and then you would also have to blame alot of the shops in town also cause they also tell people how great the river is, and word of mouth and so forth and so forth so I find no blame in the internet or anyone else for talking about the aswome river we have. Times change and cities get bigger that is just a simple fact of life, live with it or don't fish, never has there been a time that I haven't been able to find my own special spot on any givin day on the river, you just need to walk away from your mode of transportation and find the real special places, most people don't want to do that so at the end of the day where they are is crowed, remeber everyone has a right to enjoy the river, time to start sharing it and stop complaining about how crowed it is.

I've had this happen to me I don't know how many times. I have even had the rower (Do not know if it is a guide or not) tell me that it is proper etiquette for me to stop fishin and allow them to have their pass through as they only get one chance cause they are in a boat. I usally keep my mouth shut and wait till they pass, no use in me getting mad and ruining my day. I have found it annoying sometimes when out on a boat coming into poilce and there are people off loading their boat in the launch area, but this is only a very few times, most of the times I have found that if someone is offloading in the launch they usally move out of the way really quickly as the police boat launch is tricky to get into at the best of times when you do not have a motor. But like everything in life you get some people that think and some people that just do not think.

Are you sure it was Shimano I always thought it was Diawa, but shimano could be right, and loomis I belive was bought out like 3 or 4 years ago.

Cause you look like a fool in the photo's and its too easy to pick fun of you.

Nick, Just incase you didn't know the poilce have a zodaic with a jet on it as they potrol the bow river in the summer from it, remeber when all the drunk rafters where getting tickets, it was calgary poilce that was doing that.

I have seen a C.O come right up to hulls wood on a jet ski and check our licence. Chances are this is not the case but who knows. I would call RAP and the City Police

*Sign* I really do hate this time as my work is right infront of the Chinook train station and for some reason people think they can park in our parking lot (Before the store even opened the lot was full) The thing that gets me is there are numerous signs all over the lot that says it is for customer parking only and a max of two hours only. Do people really think they are not going to get ticketed? Just incase people do not understand why this is fustrating is that the first thing any company needs to provide for a customer is parking, when the company is unable to do this then they have failed the customer before they even enter the store. For two hours this morning I got to play parking control (Until the real parking control people got here) And explained to people that they could not park in our lot or they would be ticketed, I had 1 old lady swear at me and told me that it was illiegal for us to ticket her, wow never knew private properity was open to the public. So for anyone that is heading to the stampede fair warning you park in the staples/petsmart parking lot and are there longer then 2 hours you will be ticketed. I belive the ticket prices are $90.00

I voted for loop, as I have a opti creek and a opti mega loop, and love booth my reels, I also like the 3 hatch reels I have and the 1 Bauer reel (My bauer is probably the most durable as I have had it for three years now and never have I ever put any cork grease on it (Okay I lied when I take it into the fly shop they always shake their heads and ask me if I would like them to put some cork grease on it for me as they know I am too lazy to do it myself)

Just started tying tube flies and having an absoultle blast doing it, when I get some time I will post some photo's. Haven't watched anything on tube flies so I have been just grabbing material I think will work and ting it on. Oh no here comes the boss better look like I am actually doing something at work other then wishing I was on the river fishin.

Hmmmmm what can I throw in a bag and throw in the irver, I will have to give that some thought.

I think the trade was excellent. 1) Gave us lots of cap space 2) Out of all of our high paied players I feel regher was the most expendable (Our defensive team has never be a problem we need people that are going to score plain and simple) 3) Allowed us to sign tungay which was a player we had to sign and we needed to sign him before he went to free agency cause I belive we would not of been able to keep him if that happened. Have faith in our new defesive players such as Bowmeister (Gonna lean on him more as a leader now) Gieodano (Man I can never spell his name but a very good young d-man) Pardy (Looking good for the years to come and also a young player) And the other dmen (I hate to admit Statios also) are doing well. With Tungay signed I think we really need to sign Morrison also as he played very well for us last year and a great #2 center. With that we now have cap room which everyone else was belly aching about.

Who would even want to admit they are a vancouver cuncks fan after the mesierble showing they gave in the Cup Final.

I am guessing they are using for a marker of some type. Back home we use to see areas in large bodies of water marked in similar fashion, however we used duffle bags (might be the same as a hockey bag), what they would be using it to mark I do not know, but that is the only logical thing that comes to mind.

If I wasn't so broke I would diffently be getting this, borrowing a buddies of mine right now and I love the DTX series.

I do not belive that it is all fishermen, there has been nurmeours times I have been down there at night and see kids in on the island making a bon fire. I belive some blame might be towards fly fisers but I do not think all of the blame is there. Go down to southland during the night around 1 or 2am and you will see what I am talking about.

So I just started tying with CDC and I went out and bought a bulk box of CDC (Before anyone says anything I know the feathers in the bulk box is not the greatest but since I just started tying with CDC I much rather buy a bulk box learn how to tie with it and perfect it instead of wasting good feathers and money on learning how to tie with the material) My question for all the tying guru's out there is what tips or tricks they are willing to share with me with tying with cdc. So far I have tied 1 1/2 dozen cdc caddis and really like the material.

I haven't had much problems from the jet boats, when I am W&W, do mind though there is always an idoit, I do however have guides that consitantly float within 5 feet of me on a regular basis. I find the drift boats invade my area more then anyone else, alot of times they are guides too (I mknow they are guides as they have the outfitter name on the boat, I will not name any guides as this is not the place) Like anything in life there are responsable people and there are jerks.

Even though I hate Vancouver almost as much as I hate Edmonton, I would have to say that after watching the first two games Vancouver is diffently the better team. Was it just me or did Boston look slow compared to Vancouver? I predict that the cunucks will split the games in boston to come back to vancouver and win the series, would be nice to see this even though I really do dislike the team, but in all fairness they are the better of the two teams.