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My wife has one of those fancy embroidery sewing machines. After a little incident on the Crow a few years ago, I thought I should have this sign sewn on my vest..I never did, but a guy needs some sort of sign to flash at the assholes. (I just try to find quiet places and times and avoid the morons. Unfortunately like most other groups, it is 1 or 2 percent of anglers who are idiots and the rest of us are rather decent sorts.) Grizz wrote: "Take your pants off and fish with your junk hanging out and no one will come near you! You'll have the run all to yourself!" 1) WAY too much information! The graphic image is scary! (But THAT'S the point, right?) 2) You might find yourself answering to a judge. News item: Police arrested a man today at Fish Creek Park for alleged exposure of his private parts. Joggers called 911 after seeing a man fishing naked on Sunday evening. It is not clear what the man is charge with, but sources say one charge will be illegal use of bait."

Thanks FA. The natural colors are all over the map. And each individual has two or three color blends in the body section with the top being darker. Belly colors from near black..dk brown ... reddish..greenish ..bluish..pinkish and greeny-pinky cream....loads of color variation which reflect natural variations in one species...several species maybe. Male v female...age..food...natural surrounding colors (i.e. vegetation) ...

Very nice flies FA .. thanks for posting. Clive

My dog (such as it was classed as a dog...shoulda had his DNA tested I guess) was seduced by a cat in heat once. She was all over the poor hound. He turned blind when he was 8 years and now I can't remember if that was BEFORE or AFTER he become blind. Hell maybe it caused his blindness.

Yeah, work well in late spring through early summer and sometimes in winter. There are a lot of these net spinners in our rivers. I'd never hit the Crow without a few of these on board. KF .. the kicker with this pattern is the black lead head-thorax. Serves two purposes...imitates the body parts and gets the fly down. I've tied with two beads: one small and one larger ... or just with one lead bead and just used more darker material for the thorax. Funny part is that I decided to create this fly from scratch based on my pictures ... and was most pleased with the results and thinking I am some hot shot SOB for being so bloody inventive. HA HA HA. That is, until I did a search for net spinner patterns. The Europeans are all over the use of net spinner patterns and have some fancy ties. Do a search.....

I friend sent it to me. Whether or not the ad was real at one time or 100 % fake, I don't know. It is rather funny tho. (The zip code is correct for Farmington.)

Net spinning caddis larvae are a fave trout food in our rivers. Instead of the shellback you might just try some Hard as Nails or head cement. I darken the backs with sharpie markers. Net spinning caddis larva

Hey Dave ... hope yer not thinking of selling the crotch rocket.

Nice pictures Brian. Fun stuff.

Nice pix....also 40 Mile pix...nice iggle.

"Been there, Done that!" Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh! NOW I get it. You mean regarding the back problems. At first I was thinking ... Oh never mind. PS: I've actually wasted the day -- not even a sore back. Wasting time really bothers me. I even watched some golf on TV today which tells you just how wasteful it was. Too warm to fish and not enough time to start a new project ... busy all next week starting tomorrow.

"...there's gotta be a couple more brave souls out there." C'mon man ya wanna shut this board down?!? Sixty-year-old with fat belly, skinny arms and skinny legs with a fissin' tan?! Even I shudder at the image ... and hell it's me~!

Marvin ... Too funny. Maybe a little number in lilac. Would have been about as comfy as what he wore yesterday. He forgot is wading boots so just wore sandals. He was ginger footing around the slippery stones. But HE had the last laff. I took a major header into the river ... worst dunking ever. Sploosh! Made a heck of a cast to a riser. Hooked it. Raised rod and it ran straight toward me. Was not in control of line. I turned to back away and down I went..up to shoulders in 2½ feet of water. Landed the nice trout. Dried off after a while.

Hell, those are for pike fishing. If one gets too aggressive, you spear it. Toodles.

Ho man ... even a cougar can stand only so much wader smell.

DBT...oooo scary stuff. Perhaps the cougar kept slipping on somehting.

This is my fishing ride ... when I am not in buddy's Titan...gas guzzling Dodge. The bottom picture is NOT my fishing ride. It's my 1940 Pontiac tudor street rod which will come home for good within 4 weeks -- after 4 years in the making in my son's garage. .

Geez..that's TWICE today someone said that. Just decompressing in my AC-ed home office after one week working on the hot rod. Too hot to fish. Maybe Thursday.

With the dryness is the high country the black bears will be thick along the riparian areas this fall. Huge saskatoon crop. Eating saskatoons The result .. beeg bear ... deep purple scat with saskatoon seeds... .

Thanks. Love to see pix from elsewhere. Always fun to explore.

clarki raises a good point..some of these fish are a few years old and been landed twenty times.. ALSO ... a slippery slope for C&R anglers to start pissing and moaing about "Fish abuse" .. oops .. an "in" for animal rights folks. However, you should write concerns (poaching, bait etc etc) to the minister.

Fish abuse, random camping mess, quadding and biking ... all part of lacking educational, enforcement, staffing and BIG PICTURE east slopes management. The minister is open to public input and needs to hear all about the issues from many people.

FROM A PREVIOUS THREAD....GET WRITING...WE ARE THE CONVERTED. ===================================================================== This is a long-term, big picture issue. And it is most complex because forestry use, hunting and fishing fall under different divisions of SRD. And there is not (was not) good linkage between forestry and F&W. Camping and land use is managed (or NOT managed) by "forestry." Hunting and fishing regs fall to F&W Division. Naturally random campers who have troubles with (say) bears divert F&W Officers. It really is a bloody bureaucratic mess. BTW.. I made this page a few years back...seemed to help for one year. Random camping page... As others have noted, clamping down in one geographic area just moves the problem elsewhere. It's like putting a pail of manure in the front room to keep the flies out of the kitchen. Don't work. You folks can pick up the ball. Write to Dr. Ted Morton. He could be the first minister we've had with balls to make real changes. As posted previously, here are some addresses for you to write. Henderson and Empson are new to this list. The Hon. Dr. Ted Morton, Minister Sustainable Resource Development 420 Legislature Building 10800 - 97 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5K 2B6 Deryl Empson, Director, Enforcement-Field Services Branch, Fish and Wildlife Division Enforcement Field Services Branch Sustainable Resource Development 3rd fl Great West Life Building 9920 - 108 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2M4 E-mail: deryl.empson@gov.ab.ca Brad Pickering, Deputy Minister Office of the Deputy Minister Sustainable Resource Development 11th fl Petroleum Plaza ST 9915 - 108 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2G8 E-mail: brad.pickering@gov.ab.ca Cliff Henderson, Assistant Deputy Minister Forestry Division Sustainable Resource Development 11th fl Petroleum Plaza ST 9915 - 108 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2G8 cliff.henderson@gov.ab.ca Ken Crutchfield Executive Director, Fisheries Management Branch Fisheries Management Branch Sustainable Resource Development 2nd fl Great West Life Building 9920 - 108 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2M4 E-mail: ken.crutchfield@gov.ab.ca Ken Ambrock Assistant Deputy Minister Fish and Wildlife Division Sustainable Resource Development 11th fl Petroleum Plaza ST 9915 - 108 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2G8 E-mail: ken.ambrock@gov.ab.ca David Coutts, MLA 513 Legislature Building 10800 - 97 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5K 2B6

Congrats! Pure strain or hybrid? Wild or stocked? And you thought fly fishing was expensive!

I guess this thread has officially been hijacked.