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adc?!?! "...Cuba bonefishing with a bunch of rich guys" WTF am I going for then? Oh I see. To bring the average down.

Greg and adc, I will "sell" framed and matted 11 by 14-inch prints of any of the following ... buyer's choice of any picture. Will mail express post to anywhere in Alberta. All framed prints will have a small "postcard" on the back describing the picture and location. All of these picture were taken by me. Signed on back ... or not signed. (adc sez they should go for less if signed. ) This is like eBay's "Buy it now" ... the bid price is $125 per print ... includes framing and postage. If you want to pay more, that's okay too. (These typically go for $100 to $200 and silent auctions at fundraisers. The Burmis pix recently went for $200 at the local library silent auction.) Limit is a max of four framed prints...I will donate four only! So first four buyers get a print. Got that? I will be out of Dodge until March 12 so won't be able to mail until later that week. Burmis tree and moon..this is a composite picture created in Photoshop. The two originals are my pix tho. Mule buck near Cowley Big horn sheep in the Gap Sharptail male doing a courting dance on a lek .. near Duchess, Alberta

"Someone in Ontario made a "Rim Roller" to roll the rim up for you." One more thing for Dave to hang on his fly vest.

Despite the picky flaws you noted--it was hardly pedestrian (or banal) as you said--the movie had great depth and showed how humanity can go against humanity and all suffer. And it brilliantly displayed how families hurt each other, but can also overcome deep rifts to live on in peace. In all, it was superbly done and I give 4½ of five stars.

Ohh. That would get folks attention, eh? "Dryfly sentenced to five years for killing a bull trout!" Ouch. Hum Saath Saath Hain. Now there was a great film!

Just add 12 inches of tippet ahead of your fly. Pinch them above a surgeon's knot. Or use weighted flies.

Tako, Your posts are simply wrong. "WONG isn't a Canadian name." Lots of Wongs have been here a hell of a lot longer than most of our families here. And anyway. who does have a Canadian name? What IS a Canadian name? ... since we ALL migrated or immigrated from somewhere -- even natives. "newcomers to the country" This is a a very bad inference and without more information that is not a fair statement. Maybe Mr. Wong is an immigrant. We simply do not know. My name is Schaupmeyer. My grandparents came to Alberta in 1908...one hundred years ago. A lot of Wongs came before that. But guess what? I am a "newcomers to the country" .. I was not born in Canada. So what's that make me? I will agree that all new anglers including those from other countries MUST adapt to the regulations and mores (the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group) of the sportfishing community. It is not alright for anyone to whack any and all fish. Please be careful with sweeping statements. They will sneak up on you one day. Cheers! Clive

Harry...DSLRs simply rock! Said this before here. Owned cameras for 48 years and got my first SLR 40 years ago. First DSLR 2½ years ago and new DSLR last October. DSLRs have provided the MOST fun I've ever had with cameras. I take a LOT of pictures and I am taking the best pictures of my life right now. Partly because I shoot a lot, but also because of the feedback. Rusty, the lens is a 100-300 APO. I have a great Manfrottto tripod, but it weights (what??) ten pounds. I made a monopod a few years ago and it is perfect for walking. Has a "quick connect" and I can attach the camera in 3 seconds. I am using the Sony A700 12 MP DSLR now. They purchased Minolta's factories and DSLR technology so my good lenses were still usable. Sony is making most/some Nikon sensors now. Sony will release a full-frame, 24 MP body this fall. Will be tempting, but beyond my needs (I will get one one day I guess) and will probably cost $6K+ just for the body. Too much camera and too much money ... for now. Here's what I've learned since getting a 12MP DSLR last fall. I have decent glass: One APO, one LD, and one high-end macro--and a mirror lens to die for. BUT ... I can see that even my good glass is limiting the quality of images at 12 MP. (I can make 18 by 24-inch prints if need be.) So I plan to get one or two ED lenses this year. I'd like a G series f2.8, ED, 300-mm, but it is $7,000 -- just for one lens, so will probably opt for a new 70-300 G series ED zoom. It is a tad slower, but I shoot mostly outdoors and almost exclusively in sunshine anyway. I also need a good wide angle (20-mm or less) prime for a project I've in mind. Sorry for the long reply. I get pumped about the technology. We are so lucky.

Harry ... "I've never thought of you of being so morbid" ... Nah, just reality. It IS a tad warped tho. adc will attested to my general weirdness. I walk a few km almost every day and usually carry my camera. Get a few good shots now and then. Could not resist the first dead gopher of "spring." Dead gophers are sort of the western equivalent of "groundhog day" ... even thinking of spring in Feb could be bad karma...can't wait for the big snows of March and may. Not. Welcome home Lynn. From another walk this week ...

adc's real name is: adczkczski KIDDING for anyone of western Euro descent. I r one too.

Nothing announces spring like the first road-kill gopher! Sssshh! I'm gonna post this picture on the Sasquatch thread and tell Birchy et al that is a Sasquatch! I'll sell them a poster of it for (what??) twenty Gs ?

Taco ... Post one for the Stream Watch auction!!

You might find this interesting. One assumes the unnamed lake is Bullshead. February 20, 2008 TORONTO MAN NETS BIG FINE FOR TOO MANY ALBERTA FISH MARATHON — A Toronto man has been fined $4,500 after pleading guilty to having more fish than allowed. Charles Wong, 51, also had his fishing licence suspended for one year and forfeited the fish and two coolers to the Crown after being found with 53 rainbow trout over the legal limit. During a police stop for a Highway Traffic Act offense in April 2007, an Ontario Provincial Police officer discovered the fish in Wong’s vehicle. The officer contacted a conservation officer from the Ministry of Natural Resources in Manitouwadge. After an investigation, the conservation officer laid charges against Wong. Wong had been fishing near Medicine Hat, Alberta. The possession limit for rainbow trout is five in both Alberta and Ontario. ... AND NONE < 50 cm IN BULLSHEAD. (It is possible he was fishing elsewhere, but where else could you catch uniform largish trout like that? Other than a stocked pond.)

Heathen!!

Gag! Barf !!! She makes that pussy look good.

Reminds me of the $8,000 parrot joke. ("It tasted real good.") Hell of a steel tho. Free shipping to Canada. So what's the deal here anyway? No one (well maybe one of rickr's relatives ... JOKE!! ) would buy a pretzel for $21K. Mind you, people give tens of thousands to more frivolous things. Take Benny Hinn. PLEASE! (And I never even mentioned Suzuki! )

I've lived in southern Alberta for 40 years--come fall. Born in England and lived in Edmonchuk for 13 years before heading South. Lived in small towns for 40 years. So I am biased. Love it here and have become an obnoxious southern zealot! Wouldn't live anywhere on earth than somewhere in Southern Alberta. Yeah, I wouldn't mind living closer to the Pass, but never will now as I was a idiot and never purchased a acreage five years ago when I could afford it. And now they start at $300K with no buildings. My error. *hit happens. Still we've a trailer lot near Pincher now. Lethbridge is a cosmic little city with anything we need. Within two hours I can fish a huge range of streams and lakes. Great for wildlife picture takin'. 2,400 sunshine hours per year. This winter excepted, we get great weather. And don't waste ink on bitching about the wind. So we get a little wind now and then? No biggie. Essentially 12 months of fishing--albeit only occasional fishing for a while. There is very little to not like in small southern towns. We gots eBay now so can get fissin' gear if we don't like the offerings and attitudes downtown. (A little inside humor there. Well it is not that funny actually. )

This is the Great Pumpkin. It has a great history. See top image and crappy small bottom image--ancient scan. What happened was this. I was yakking to a guy who spin fished and he said he'd been having a ton o' luck with a gold and orange "Cyclops" spin lure. So I cranked out a couple of spun deer hair, eyeless, flies using orange deer hair, some orange fish hair and assorted flash. (I still have a couple of these around somewhere.) One of the guys in the Brooks FF Club named it Great Pumpkin, collectively we started using "body fur" for large heads and somewhere along the way I started using LARGE eyes. So it has a cool history. The fly worked way back then and still works today--in its evolved form. We've no idea what the pike take it for and it does not work as well in early spring as yellow. It is one of the "must have" flies. There are days it is deadly--and days the pike prefer yellow. Great Pumpkin instructions here..... That's one of the primordial pumpkins on top here...old flatbed scan.

adc alerted me to this discussion most of which I ignored. Don, good points about line weights although I've only had one real issue with mismatched line-rod. Anyway, adc told me about Jim's post in which he wrote, "Zephyr...nobody ever bought one." He he. I think I have a blank Zephyr rod. Twenty some years ago my bro purchased an Orvis blank in 5-wt and ASSEMBLED it for me. It weighs not much less than a standard-bred poodle and limp as ..... limp as an overcooked noodle. Like Al, I don't use it much, but it REALLY is sweet to cast. It is a soft open noodly wand. Sweet.

Here is the 4-hour sequence ... was fun ... was chilly the last hour.

Film at 11! Just waiting for the total shadow right now. FIRST HALF AS IT WENT TO BED......Will clean them up tonight.

If paying by VISA, please make sure you tell Kimberly what you are paying for, i.e. an auction item vs a donation. Perhaps drop adc a PM to let him know how it is being paid for. OR send a cheque to adc directly .... Cheques: Please make your cheque payable to: Trout Unlimited Canada c/o Allan Caldwell 137 Coachwood Pt W Lethbridge AB T1K 6A6 Memo note: Southwestern Alberta Stream Watch Thanks much! Clive

Andrew, Wassup below the dam? I was thinking of dropping by tomorrow. Will depend on wind. Not said anything to Al yet. Clive

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