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"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.

Lynn slaps Dave

We could have used some redistribution of moisture wealth this summer. I am at my son's and can't believe the water in the fields--NW of Red Deer. I saw fields today that had not been planted--and simply soaked with small ponds. The RD River is high and muddy. Down south of Lethbridge they've not had appreciable rain since May. At the trailer lot near Cowley we had 40 mm of rain I think in early June and nothing for five weeks save a few drops here and there.

I'd guess that "Big John and the twins" were a little sore after as well.

Lovely Andrew, just lovely. I just want to know who is going to clean the partly digested breakfast off my keyboard?

Any body marks? A few years back we came upon a pool with several mergansers that flushed off. There were five of six dead trout in < one foot of water at the tail of the pool. Their bodies had "cut" marks which we presumed were the result of being caught by the mergansers. They have serrated bills ... sharp "lamellae" ... basically teeth .. for catching fish. We thought it odd that there were several dead fish all very dead, yet fresh and with the same minor but fatal wounds. I am guessing what we saw was mum and her kids and they'd been getting a lesson. I am wondering the same thing here. Just a S.W.A.G.!

"Toronna with a view "

(Prologue: Thanks for the comment. Oh geez, now I am in doo...your comment will elicit some wild and crazy responses. Taco?? I'm just a guy who likes to fish now and then ... Had you seen me break of two rainbows the other day ... I think the blue echos are still reverberating down the valley... ) I tested the Optio out the front window and it is only about ½ second too--if that. The delay is with the flash..that is painfully slow. (My old Nikon digital is 2 seconds!!) My beef with the Optio is the difficulty seeing the screen under bright sun ... it's "okay" but I'd prefer the viewfinder. Thanks again for the pix. Try it underwater. Fun stuff. Cheers! Clive

Thanks rickr. Looks good. Having a smaller waterproof digital is great for fishing. (Lugging a 3-pound DSLR is not fun.) Show us some underwater images when you get some. They are a tad tricky. I've found the best way is to put the camera on max wide angle--remember you can't see where you are shooting when holding the camera u/w. Need good light and clear (clear) water. Question. What is the "digital delay" time? When you took the rodeo pix, did you push the shutter and hope for the best? (Good rodeo pix, BTW!) Or is the shutter nearly instantaneous like a DSLR. (I've a new Pentax Optio W20 and it has least one second delay--maybe two. ZZzzz.) Good luck with the new camera. Clive

I wasn't having probs and now get tossed after every visit. Started at about 9:30 this evening.

Glad it turned out okay. Scary stuff.