Hawgstoppah

that's friggin brilliant LOLOL I cant stop laffin.

LOL. awesome!

hehe ... well... I didnt "pay" full for that I demo'd john's rods for a couple years with the old company. There great. It's a super rod for the bow BUT... my favorite rod I own is a st croix legend ultra 3wt. 300 bucks. Ive casted MUCH more pricey 3 and 4 weights... they dont even compare to how good that legend ultra feels. I totally agree with the old adage: Go cast and find the rod YOU like best without looking at the name or price tag first. Cast 5 different rods of exactly the size you want, putting tape over the price tag and name

I've casted everything from high end sages to low end TFO's and the good ol' berkley cherrywood canadian tire specials. I'd bet if you took all the blanks, put no markings on them and had them all exactly the same color, and got 100 pro catsers to cast them all, the rods in the 100-300 dollar range would prefrom every bit as good as any others priced higher. The name "sage" or "orivs" is what your paying for, not a better stick... IMHO. If you want to spen a grand for a GREAT feeling stick, spend a bit more and go into bamboo. cheers.

Im guessing "back is" is somewhere on earth, in the solar system, which is part of the milky way GREAT brown I love the colors.!!!!

and before someone posts about how will I fish them, yes I mean banning any type of off roading including driving over feilds to access rivers. Park besdie the road and do some walking, folks. :$*%&:

off roading of any type is desturctive, not just ATV's. Ban them ALL. and yes... that means the people driving into random camping spots with their big 4x4 and 5th wheelers too. It's ruining the whole area on the L'stone, Oldman, Castle, Carbondale, there everywhere, and everywhere I look I see frikkin MUD now instead of green valleys, and instead of deer and elk I see jackasses. :$*%&:

Your first fox pix match the color of the suspect pretty close. I saw one at waterton on the golf course this year that was dead on for the suspect in this thread too. How can you say it's "too big" when there's really nothing in the pic to compare it to? My money's on fox actually, it may also be a sasquatch!!!!

that was the best laff I have had in a long , long time. awesome!

even with the enlargements I still say fox. pointy head, tails about right, though hard to make out.

awesome!

hard to say how big it really is, but might it be smaller than first thought? kinda looks like a fox to me. Just my 2 cents.

Tim whoa wait a sec if you'll remember I got a big brown earlier in the day (though, it was on a fly I scammed from you, LOL) Yea that was epic dude, catching a big brown while not even really casting! awesome!

LOL... yeah next year that place will be overrun by people with AB plates! cool pics!

that's sara's B&B and, they actually DO own that riverbottom and land. One of the few places in alberta that has been grandfathered in since a long time ago. They have every right to tell you what they told you, to stay off. Maybe there attitude came from having to repeatedly tell people to stay off because no one can read signs, or no one thinks they have the "right" to keep people off their river, when in fact, it IS their river on that particular stretch there nice folks, perhaps it was people staying there that got all attitudy-judy with ya.

That is just bloody f***ing brilliant!!

I'm gonna stay outta this one... be interesting to see where the votes go. Im guessing the votes will reflect our negative feelings towards BC's rules and it's already going that direction.

You'll be definately breaking fish off without that rod tip section ... especially on lighter tippets. You never did say what WT of rod, but if it was originally a 5 or 6wt , you'd be fishing dries on small tippet with the equivalent of an 8WT now... one word ****SNAP****!!! (as you've found out)

Nice way to stomp out of a rut!

Probably predominantly rainbow there. But I think it's got like 1/10th cutty in her. definately not pure on either side. Nice fish!

You said all pics were taken on the fly rod... How did those tubers fight!!!! what fly? LOL

and , if you can back that up with an actual client of mine saying I did that please feel free to do so. But you can't, unless your lying. cheers.

Seems you heard half the story on just one particular day, 7 years ago. It wasnt backpacks marking a spot it was people casting OVER me that set me off, others drew their own conclusions, so be it. Cast over me today and tangle my line and you'll still get the same reaction. Judge not unless ye know the whole truth.

Been fishing in BC twice this year and guess what. Checked twice.. If Alberta would step it up like that we wouldnt have so many problems. Seems we like to let the idiots play with guns and wreck our fisheries while we stand here and watch.

wow. thinks he owns the river eh? lol