Hawgstoppah

hogwash! Your supposed to stick your head underwater and line it up. If we can pick the fish out of the water for a phot, we shouldn't be shy about going IN the water for one eh? LOL :)

which sucks balls....

might not go....

wife is sick...

wind won't blow...

Hopefully the frikkin....

on the Crow....

Gonna fish tommorow...

I'll swallow my pride a bit and say Kipper looked pretty damn good last night. If the flames gotta win 1-0... he's gonna have to be. I'd rather the flames play a solid game and win 1-0 than be "entertained" by a high scoring game. I like defence. defence wins.

Foosball isn't for the devil it's for my Bobby!

Hey ... I honestly think Kipper was better with bigger equipment and better D... becuase the shots were'nt coming from the slot, or from guys that are WIDE OPEN all the time. No goalie would have a save pct over .900 in the flames net this year.... in defense of kipper a bit I guess... I think he's having a bad season so far, but so is the flames in their own end...

Let it go guys. Fact is.... maybe I did have those fish a bit too close to the rocks... they were so dead tired they couldn't move though... but I can understand the reason behind the suggestions. I assure you they never touched anything dry.... and if they would have started flipping I would have thrown the cheap crap cam I had on the rocks, and worried about the fish

Hey if something like this goes through it's about damn time we fight back and get this happening in alberta to. If we can't go fish over there I don't wanna see another F&**&*&*n BC license plate on the crow, castle, oldman, or livingstone, or bow river.

Bald tires and 2WD wouldn't be good for this time of year, but if you got good tires and 4WD, that hill isn't much of a problem. or start in the city and takeout at Police... or start police and takeout at Legacy... those are "easier" hills

excatly... lol

absolutely.... your 100% right... Kipper looked GREAT behind a GREAT defense... but he's just average under an exposed defence core... let's face it.. our defence sucks now.... the fans cried for offense.. so now we got it. Such is life.

Not sure , there still in my freezer :):) LOLOL Oh don't worry about me if there's crap to be taken over these pics and learning to be done it doesn't bother me. The stories still epic, as are the fish. PS.. anyone wanna BBQ??

When's the last time the Flames got 51 shots? Pretty good effort, for 60 minutes.

Hey just last week I hooked the largest fish I have ever seen at the end of my fly line, in a tiny stream in idaho. It was a Carp. (grass carp) and it was roughly 40-50 pounds and it was fouled .... I think it was larger than the king salmon in alaska this summer. I didn't land it though... I had my 3wt in search of cutts and rainbows and browns (did find a couple of those too)

Well someone was assuming I beached them. Anyhow, the point remains is that these fish were tailed and pics were taken in some shallow water. sorry the pics look a lot worse than they are. The fish never touched anything dry at all, nor was it dragged up the bank, etc. The pics took all of a maximum 5 seconds. That's kinda WHY there shitty pics....

when the f*ck was it said that I beached these fish? There all landed in the fashion described above.... from whistler fly fishing. They didn't get "dragged up the bank" there all laying in the water in the pics... as I said, bad camera + low light is making them look perhaps like there not, but they are. They didn't touch a speck of dry rock/sand/beach at all. My hand came off the tail for about the 3 seconds it tok to take a few pics of exhausted fish as I unhooked 'em. I bitch about pics on this board that show fish ON grass, ON dry rocks, or ON ice... there's a BIG difference between that and having them laying in the water NEXT to some shoreline / rocks / whatever else was there. And that's the last word. Period.

Women, there always out to get ya...!

I am going to take up "extreme" quilt making. I'll let you know how it turns out... lol Seriously I had no idea how many of the posts would be about the fish laying on / near rocks. I assure you guys the utmost care was taken with the fish and the pics. At the time of the pic the fish had been led into the quiet water, and was exhausted and resting... not moving at ALL... and they were IN the water ... at least 4-8 inches of it... but I will take the advice given... I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about steelhead that's for sure. A question though... if a fish is exhausted to death while I continually try to subdue it in a foot of water, won't that play the fish to death instead of landing it as quickly as possible? They just keep swimming away to my experience, unless you can slide them into a softish 6 inches of water shoreline area where they can lie quietly while the hook's removed and a very quick picture is snapped. If the fishes tail has a foot of water to work with (which someone suggested is where you land them / take pictures of 'em), there not coming in... period... from my experience... How do you guys suggest someone properly land a fish while fishing solo? Everyone else I've seen (even BC guides) has done it just the way I did with these fish.

With the bad cam it's hard to see but each fish is over half submerged in water.

You know what... I didn't. I kinda sized it up on the rod and thought it was about as big as the hen earlier which was taped properly. Maybe it was bigger than 35. I didn't really care. It was awesome..... wether it was 35 or 45 I didn't care... my heart was pumpin so fast and I was just in such awe...