Hawgstoppah

:lol: Good, cuase otherwise I'd have to come whoop yer a$$

If that puddle your driving thru USED to be a mountain creek / stream.... no matter how many have abused it before you, if your out there going through it.......... I'll hold my comments until you tell me that's just a standing water area and not the little creek that used to flow down beside hwy 532.. or something like that... and go have a shower...

The is one heck of a gorgeous colored, pristine, unpolluted, mountain water, SUCKER!!! LOL I love that you threw that in there!! Oh and geez my gosh on all the other fish posted here in this thread, nice fish guys!

I spied on about 25 rising fish at Waterton last time I went with wife and kids. Now Im gonna go back someday with rod at the ready They were some really dang nice brookies I think.... might be wrong... they looked like brookies tho

Been in their shop lots. Their commitment to excellence with their flies must surely overlap into their guiding. I'd recommend them..

Rofl sorta like sume dumbarse truck driver on the CB in golden asking how far east from town is 10 mile hill... duhhhhhhh

No no no ... i almost WISH it was her stomach doing the expansion and not mine. Full time trucking is adding in a few LB's..

Remember that when your first thought upon seeing one 500 feet away on stream is to run..... never, ever run no matter if the bears 15 feet or 1000 feet away and is aware of you...

Rusty, if what you say is true about the NHL coverage on sirius going by the wayside... mine will be gone and XM will be in... without hesitation. I got the thing so I could listen to Flames games when I'm in idaho, or somewhere... etc..

LOL... did it see my router over there? My router has more air miles than a lot of folks I know

I feel your pain brother... I feel your pain...

You just won my utmost respect I've done the same thing... mostly in jasper.... banff has there wildlife fences now and I never see a daggone thing anymore there...

I see my wife made it to the Park recently.............

Nothing can top a cosmic sunset........ and sunrises happen to early for me

You've convinced me to spend the money and hit that place for a day... Heck I only live 30 minutes from it... I think if the police lake regs go through... we'll have the same hawgs out there as well... for public use..

Oh and no one said it yet, but hookup is a cinch. Plug in cig lighter. Plug in antenna cord, slap on the roof of your car the antenna section (it's magnetic). Then tune your FM radio in your CAR to 88.1 fm ... (you can change what frequency you want to use to broadcast on in your actual sirius unit, so if you wanted to broadcast on 100.1 or something go ahead, then tune your car radio FM receiver to 100.1 to pick up what's playing on your sirius unit)... easy as pie.

I have sirius in my big rig. I think I would have died of boredom by now if I didn't have one. They have some good country stuff Lynn channels 60-64, or is it 60 to 65 now? You also get some good classic rock, mellow rock type station which are great too. (channel 10 or 15), and you can rock out to 80's hair bands on channel 23 LOL Blue Collar comedy is a riot too channel 103 Git R Done!!

Amen. Once I slowed down and figured out what it means to really enjoy a day of fly fishing... I've never looked back. I used to count and keep stats religiously. Now I can't remember if I got 6 or 7 or 5 the last time I hit the river for an hour, but spending time with an old friend (a finned one) was priceless... Not that I caught it.. but I did spend some time with it.. it enjoyed my company for a short while before spitting the hook again.. must have been the 6th time I personally have hooked and lost this fish.. (damn that fish, it's still there this year, prob close to 30" for those who know which fish and which river I speak of).. but truth be told, I think I just really enjoy just getting out, and meeting new people, and being by a river rejuvenates me... now again when I get to the river I am giddy with anticipation of fishing it...

No comment ****runs to walmart to prepare for a mountain trip****

Haha legendary.... up to the part about peeing the pants LOL... I felt like such a jackarse after that but hey... better than a can of spray I'll tell ya that. If he was sniffin me up for dinner, and then smelled that... coulda saved my hide ya know!!

Was hiking a trail to Headwall Lakes. There is a headwall that once you get up it you can see the area you just came through very well. Looked back to see 3 bears (black bears). They were 10 feet from the trail. Noticed another group of hikers approaching the area and doing the right thing (making a lot of noise). The bears wandered off about 100ft, hunkered down a bit, waited for hikers to pass, and procedded back to 10ft from the trail to eat the berries. Make noise, and don't act scared or change your routine once one gets too close. Been good tactics for me through about 20 encounters of less than 200 feet between me and bear. I've been 500 feet from far too many to count, possibly over 100.... Never once have I fired a can of spray at one.... only to test it in a feild years ago to see the pattern / effective area coverage... Did you guys here my drunk bear story?I'm sure I posted this one before......

Well for those of u who want to hear the story... I was on the Livingstone... I had wandered ahead of the group by about a pool or two (heading downstream)... I had gone around the pool in the bushes to avoid the trout spooking, and gotten into a position to cast back up into the pool for some nice cutties that I had seen rising. No sooner do I start my casting in this pool, than from about 15ft away from the bushes on the other side of the pool a bear pokes his nose out, and comes through pretty much right there. At this point I don't have time to do anything but attempt to remain calm and not do anything stupid.. I'm hoping it goes away, I keep casting.. it walks around behind me so I transfer from casting over my right shoulder to casting over my left.... becuase hooking a griz in the arse is probably NOT a good idea... and then he sniffs my ear... then down the whole right side of me... and then kinda wanders over to the bank, and sorta sits down.. like he's watching me fish.. by this time I had peed my pants... It felt like an hour but it was probably only 30 seconds he watched what I was doing and then left. I guess he figured I was a crappy fisherman and wasn't gonna get him dinner that day... actually I didn't let my fly sit in the drift for more than a second... I was picking it up right away once it landed... I didn't want to hook one... probably the only time in my life where I desperately did NOT want to hook one!! The guys coming downstream did witness the bear sitting on the bank and leaving, but not the sniff job I got. I still get the hair on the back of my neck standing up when I think of that.

That's one heck of a great shot

WITHOUT SPILLING!!!

Where's the trailer? Maybe I can point you to an hour's fishing or something...