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The Oldman River chapter of TU is holding a conclave, dinner and auction on Saturday April 26 ... see here. Funds raised go toward projects in the Oldman drainage and toward Stream Watch in SW Alberta. Guito arranged for an autographed Miikka Kiprusoff goalie stick This is Kiprusoff brand stick.See picture. Thanks Guito..great work!! We are accepting pre auction bids here. Here's how it will work. Place your "maximum" bids here. We will accept bids here up until 6 PM on April 26. The HIGHEST bid (only the highest bid) will be used at the live auction on April 26 just like the eBay "maximum bid." A TU exec will carry the FFC bid. Say the highest maximum bid (here on FFC) is $300. The live auction bidding starts at (say) $100. The hidden bid will be held by one of the OM TU exec who will then bid $150...and so on. If the last bid is by the hidden FFC bidder at (say) $250 then the sticks goes to the FFC bidder. However, if the bidding is active and surpasses the FFC bid of $300 then the FFC bidder does not win. So the FFC maximum bid is the maximum that the bidder is willing to pay. The stick MAY go for less. Only one the highest) maximum bid will be carried forward from here to the live auction. Got that? THE OTHER OPTION IS TO BY A DINNER TICKET AND COME ON DOWN. TABLE OF EIGHT FOR $300!! Here tis! (Sweater NOT included...)

Go get 'em men! Kidding. Congrats to the finalists. Terry..show those young pups how to tie!

Boy THAT was hard ... sort of like choosing between the top and bottom pictures here ... (As one of the entrants going down in flames, I am allowed this post!) AND

Hey, thanks to all. No fishing today. Got up at 5 AM and we went to the trailer later and stayed till 4 PM...dinner with the grandrats, son and DIL. I did manage to squeeze in 122 pictures along the way tho. Thanka to all! Clive

Oldman River Chapter, Trout Unlimited Conclave, Banquet & Auction April 25 and 26, 2008 Lethbridge College Barn and Lethbridge College OPEN TO ALL !! Join us Friday 7 p.m. for a Beer and Pizza Social. Meet new fly-fishing friends, watch fly tying demonstrations and watch a video presentation. The Conclave starts Saturday morning at 9 a.m. April 26th. There will be an opening address and then choose from 4 concurrent sessions that will run for the rest of the day until 4 p.m. There will be lots of fly tying demonstrations and you can enter a fly tying or photography competition. At 6 p.m. Saturday night join us for a buffet dinner and auction. A small live auction, many silent auction and various items will be available. Come and support trout habitat. PLEASE DO NOT PM ME FOR INFO...PLEASE CONTACT THOSE LISTED. Tickets $80 for Conclave, Banquet & Auction $40 for Banquet & Auction ($300 table of 8) Children under 14 accompanied by adult $20 (conclave) Tickets available through the dinner committee: Kelly Oikawa 394-1561 kelly.oikawa@gmail.com Blair Spence, 329-6076 blairspence@shaw.ca Peter DeGorter, 381-1912 degorter@telus.net Henry Komadowski 328-2409 Richard Burke, 320-2925 grburke@shaw.ca Schedule of events Friday April 25 7 to 10 PM — Beer and Pizza Social at the DA Barn (Lethbridge College) demos booths and displays video entertainment raffles view and vote for fly tying and photography competition Saturday April 26 conclave schedule … 9 AM until ~ 4 PM There will be four concurrent one-hour sessions running all day. • coffee and snacks at 8:30 • demos • displays and booths • Lunch included in conclave price Concurrent session topics and/or demos Fly tying demos Casting clinics Insect identification Bullshead and chironomid techniques Outdoor and Fly-fishing photography Fly-fishing for pike Beer making Entomology and fly fishing Intro to fly-fishing Fly fishing Belize Leaders and knots Rod building Reading water And more!! Presenters: Allan Caldwell Blair Spence Clive Schaupmeyer Dave Bloom Henry Komadowski Kelly Oikawa Paul Harper Peter deGorter Richard Burke Rolf Schwabe Tim Bloomfield Vic Bergman Dinner and auction 6 PM at the DA Barn Lethbridge College 6:00 pm: cocktails 7:00 pm: buffet dinner from Sven Erickson’s Silent auction all evening Live auction to follow dinner Various raffles “Streamwatch Grand Raffle” Announcement of fly tying and photography contest winners CONTEST DETAILS HERE... PLEASE DO NOT PM ME FOR INFO...PLEASE CONTACT THOSE LISTED. Thanks, Clive

Escaped from a merganser, pike or poacher. (Or got drunk on Saturday Night and fell down the stairs.) Some critter probably. Seem to be teeth marks behind the main trauma.

Sweet. That's a lifetime memory for you barnes. Those will make you misty one day--guaranteed.

Be a good companion in bear country...heck even I could out run her.

I figured I was goin' down anyway... Now it is a given. Ol' crash and burn Clive.

No scary screams here ... Just to help everyone lighten up! The bricklayer's song!!

Who's on first?

BobEMonster...surely your comment were not directed at anything I wrote ... basically saying that using dates were just fine since trying to define anything else was impossible. Surely not me good sir ? ? ?

Terry...here's my lifelike stoney nymph......wanna concede now? KIDDING.....Have fun! Clive, OF

Look you guys the local EMTs are getting sick and tired of coming over and restarting my heart. You know you are having a bad day when people in uniforms are standing over you and yelling, "Clear!"

I'm sending it to adc immediately!

Don, that is a good concept. But try to define "no fishing through the ice" in a way that a judge could accept or that lawyers could not successfully argue either way. What you mean is "no fishing through man-made holes." Right? Okay, what if I break ice by wading through shore ice to cast into naturally open water. Guys were fishing Police last week into open water that in fact was completely surrounded by ice along the shore and in the main part of the lake. The water was open as a direct or indirect function of the aerators. So....they were indeed fishing through the ice. There is a lake near Brooks in which methane (or ???) would bubble up from the bottom. Even when there was two feet of ice on the lake there were a few open pockets of water a few feet in diameter. We discussed dates the other night at the area fisheries round table. It was agreed that the date is fine and from time to time people will indeed be able to ice fish for a few days. Also look at it this way. Darwin will take care of a few of them at this time of year.

I photographed scaups two springs ago from about 20 feet away. Also have only P&S shots of geese in late season---second try I guess. I am not sure if anyone wants to see that or not...I sposed most don't know how tis done. Just like cats but underwater--for one of them anyway. Now the forced CF is strange...three or four males all but downing a female--quite the cacophony. I've heard they can drown a female...not sure.

... so to keep it clean, here is the CWS "Hinterland Who's Who" item about the male lesser scaup after Jeffro's reported "forced copulation rituals "

Thanks flyslinger. Jeff .. aren't pintails so cool to watch flying? Nice pix. I guess it would not be cool to post pictures of copulating scaups, eh?

Hey sun if she is your wife, what do you care about the floors? Good luck with the floors BTW.

This will help a lot ...

There is no reason to disbelieve this. The enlarged image has not obviously been Photo shopped. See larger image. How about this? Crazy glue maybe. What is bullshit, is the several references to when and where it was actually caught. It seems to have been caught in ND, but it is not clear. I'd prefer to see a DNR website authenticating this. But I don't think the image is faked. Several billion pike are born ever spring...a few have to be a bit wonky. Just look around this board if you want proof of genetic aberrations.

eBay....just got some.

Well I for one sure as hell hope you two have purchased carbon offsets from Al Gore's company GIM!! http://www.generationim.com/ http://www.junkscience.com/oct07/al_gore.html http://riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_cons...res_inconv.html http://www.generationim.com/ http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2007/...of_becoming.php