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OINK! First rate man! Well done. Might as well sell all of your fishing stuff now. You've hung the fish of a lifetime. There is nothing else to do for you to do except sell out and join a convent. Clive

I am just the messenger... Q. How do you keep the Vancouver Canucks out of your yard? A. Put up a goal net. Q. How many Vancouver Canucks does it take to win a Stanley Cup? A. Nobody knows and we may never find out. Q. What do the Vancouver Canucks and possums have in common? A. Both play dead at home and are killed on the road. Q: What do the Canucks and Whales have in common? A: They both get confused when surrounded by ice Q: Why are the Canucks like a training bra? A: Minimal support and no cups. Q: Why won't they give Kelowna a professional Hockey team? A: Because then Vancouver will want one too. Q: What do the Vancouver Canucks and the Titanic have in common? A: They both look good until they hit the ice! Q: Why don't the Canucks drink tea? A: Because the Canadiens and Red Wings have all the cups. Q: What do you call 5 Vancouver Canucks players standing ear to ear? A: A wind tunnel. Q: Why are the Canucks like grizzly bears? A: Every fall they go into hibernation. Q: What does a recent high school dropout and the Vancouver Canucks have in common? A: They’re both young, have no goals and no good prospects. Q: What’s the difference between a fat chick and the Canucks? A: Even a fat chick scores every once in a while! Q: What is it called when a Vancouver Canuck player blows in another Canuck player’s ear? A: Data transfer. Q: What's blue and white and goes down the toilet faster than Liquid Plumber? A: The Vancouver Canucks Q: What do a fine wine and the Vancouver Canucks have in common? A: They spend a lot of time in the cellar, cost too much and are only enjoyed on select occasions. Q: Why did the Post Office recall their latest stamps? A: They had pictures of Canucks players on them and people couldn't figure out which side to spit on. Q: Why do people like driving a car with a Canucks fan? A: Because you can park in the handicap zone! Q: What do you get when you combine all 23 Vancouver Canucks with 23 lesbians? A: Forty-Six people that don’t do dick! Q: What is the difference between a Canucks fan and a pot hole? A: I would swerve to avoid the pot hole! Q: What song do Vancouver Canuck fans sing before the end of the third period? A: Nobody knows. There are never any of them left. Q: What’s the difference between the Vancouver Canucks and a mosquito? A: A mosquito stops sucking. Q: What is the difference between a Canucks fan and a baby? A: The baby will stop whining after awhile. Q: How many Vancouver Canucks does it take to change a tire? A: One, unless it's a blowout, in which case they all show up Q: What do the Vancouver Canucks and Billy Graham have in common? A: They both can make 15,000 people stand up and yell "Jesus Christ". Q: What is the difference between a bucket of *hit and a Canucks fan? A: The bucket. Q: How do you castrate a Vancouver Canucks fan? A: Kick his sister in the mouth Q: What should you do if you find three Vancouver Canucks hockey fans buried up to their neck in cement? A: Get more cement. Q: What does a Vancouver Canuck fan do when his team has won the Stanley Cup? A: He turns off the PlayStation 3. Q: What do a Vancouver Canuck fan and a bottle of beer have in common? A: They’re both empty from the neck up. Q: Why do Vancouver Canuck fans keep their season tickets on their dashboards? A: So they can park in handicap spaces. Q: Did you hear that Vancouver's hockey team doesn't have a website? A: They can't string three "Ws" together. Q: Why did BP hire the Vancouver Canucks to clean up the Gulf oil spill? A: Because they'll go out there and throw in the towel! Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead Vancouver Canucks fan in the road? A: There are skid marks in front of the dog Q: Why are the Vancouver Canucks like Canada Post? A: They both wear uniforms and don't deliver!

Why is that Lynn? Ohhhh....you got mixed up.

Hi gang I contacted TUC and here is what I learned. For everyone wondering about TUC and getting tax receipts (and other things related to the auction), please be patient. There has been an untimely set of circumstances happening all at once. You will get what you want in time. Kimberly manages this stuff and was on maternity leave and then away because of family illness. The Calgary office has a handful of staff and most are away from the main office a lot of the time. Please remember that it is the national office, not just the local shop so demands come from across the country. It is unfortunate that the auction coincided with Kim's absence, but that's the way it is. Please be patient. Thanks and regards Clive

I first write that fake story a few years ago and the older members will have seen it. I merely made a few changes to suit the "spawning fish" theme here. All in fun.

"In southern Alberta be aware of insecticides/ag chemicals and industrial fallout. Nasty stuff." I seriously doubt that Don. You were kidding, right? Not much industry here...southern Alberta probably has some of the cleanest rainwater in the world. In any case, whatever is in rain water goes directly onto the gardens anyway, right? There might be nasty stuff washing into the barrel from the roof tars, resins, glues etc etc. We have used rainwater for years. Plants seem to like it. Knew a lady who bragged about her "organic" raised-bed veggie garden ... the raised beds were made from railroad ties. Pretty funny. lethfisher .. there is (or was) a 1,000-L, food-grade water tank in the Herald "under $100" classified ads recently.

Apparently, that model comes with one of these.

Could be in interesting spring. See snow pack here. Click on a green button and select "figure." The five high sites for the SW drainage are about 180% of average. This cold weather is aiding a slow snow melt ... at least so far. The next few weeks will tell if it goes slow or fast.

Some one told me that at one time (now?) Hardy put engraved serial numbers on the first 1000 of a new model. (I have a modern ultra light that is numbered.) If true, that would influence price, but it is not apparent on the face of this reel. Very nice reel. My Marquis has the most annoying drag "click" ... you want to fish alone if yours has the same. Bugs the heck out of your partners.

Quebec - Brook Trout Well THAT explains a lot. (Kidding, so please don't dump on me. ) Good luck sundance Clive

Good luck with whatever it is everyone plans to do. One day, in 20 or 30 years, when whatever is left of SRD and "the department" has no "hunters and anglers bios" on staff, but just radical eco warrior bios, things could get a bit ugly. Just think about what will happen when they impose no end of radical anti fishing and anti invasives legislation. Might happen. Might not. (Just musing.) See below. When the folks at National Geographic (in 2005) refer to rainbow trout and brown trout is "the worst invasives" it makes us think that maybe this is where we might be headed. Wait a few more years. So let's say some sort of concerted action is taken regarding cleaning up genetics in the ES streams. Well then, should the same apply to all streams where cutts and bull trout once were king? (I am just asking, not saying.) Where would the rules stop? A universal cleanup would put a bit of a damper on the Bow River fishery if some fanatical eco bureaucrat decided the Bow needed to be purged of "the worst" invasives like rainbows and browns. Now THAT would be a bit of a dust up. Pretty unlikely, eh? Maybe. Maybe not. Don't get me wrong, it is too bad we can't do more to preserve some pockets of pure cutts. And we all know that in hindsight, adding brookies (for sure) and rainbows in some places was probably not a swell idea. A strong argument could be made that rainbows and browns have a place in some waters in Alberta. We can think about what might have been of the Europeans had not brought browns and they had not brought Oncorhynchus across the rocks. But they are here. One might wonder if cleaning the genetics in streams is like taking the cream out of coffee. One might wonder where limited resources should best be used for the benefit of our streams, our fisheries and the people of Alberta. (People are part of the equation. We are not alien invasives as some radicals charge.) The efforts to maintain cutt purity are admirable. Regards, Clive You can go to the library and get a copy of the page below. It is what some folks think about your beloved Bow River rainbow and brown trout fishery.

Smitty That's funny. It has as many adjectives as your average $8 Starbucks coffee. Clive

Hi folks. RE: Gary LaFontaine's book, Caddisflies. Somehow rickr's photo links got messed up. So here are two ... with more image links below ... This is a serious fly tyer's collector item. I am downsizing and slowly dispersing stuff. Thanks Clive http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/2/d/8/6398...flies4991-0.jpg http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/2/d/8/6398...flies4986-0.jpg http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/2/d/8/6398...flies4992-0.jpg http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/2/d/8/6398...flies4996-0.jpg http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/2/d/8/6398...flies4993-0.jpg

The article originally posted here is a bit silly and a couple of responses are quite out of the ball park. Several have already correctly pointed out that trips give a much reduced risk of hybridization if they "escape." True. But let us not forget that rainbows in our rivers are not native in the first place. Some folks seem to be suggesting that there is a potential issue if hatchery fish from lakes get into a river that was originally stocked with non-native hatchery rainbows. With the exception of some pockets of pure-strain cutts in Alberta (and the Athabascan rainbows), generally speaking our sport trout fishery is artificial. Striving to protect those pockets of cutts and Athabascans is worthwhile, but that's another story. This is about trips and hatcheries. There is a misconception that our hatchery fish are on par with domesticated species of cows and dogs. (Selecting and breeding domestic livestock and crop plants is another story, but has led to a well-fed world with exceptions that are political vs. genetic.) There is no similarity between hatchery trout and (say) domesticated dogs with their hip dysplasia and progressive retinal atrophy, etc. Provided the hatchery biologists are indeed maintaining some level of genetic heterogeneity our hatchery trout are decent stock. It is incorrect to suggest that heterogeneous hatchery-raised fish are inferior to "wild stocks" when their parentage is de facto wild stock and continually assess for heterogeneity. While writing an article on rainbow trout for the 2009 AFG, I interviewed Jon Underwood from the Allison Creek hatchery. Jon also sent me some notes that he had prepared. Here are my notes as taken from the draft of the article. I think the words are the same in the final article. Since we have no native rainbows in Alberta—other than the Athabasca strains—you may wonder about the genetic lineage of our stocked rainbow trout today. The genetic history of rainbows stocked decades ago in Alberta is murky at best. However, according to Jon Underwood, Head of the Allison Creek Brood Trout Station near Coleman, the first strains of rainbows released in Alberta probably consisted of several stocks from the northwest United States and from Beaver Lake in BC. For supply and disease reasons, the province stopped importing eggs from other hatcheries and since 1982 no eggs have been brought into Alberta. Today, the province maintains two separate brood stocks of rainbows consisting of three genetic lines. The Raven Brood Trout Station uses brood stock that originated at the Mt. Lassen Trout Farm in California. The Allison Creek Brood Trout Station uses two strains today. One originated at Beity Hatcheries in Washington and the other is a strain that combined genetics from the Beity line and from Pennask and Beaver lakes in BC. Jon Underwood reports that the genetic diversity is maintained in Alberta’s rainbow hatchery stocks by using a rotational line crossing system. This is a proven system that reduces chances of inbreeding (that reduces genetic variation) and DNA analysis has shown that there is good genetic diversity in Alberta’s stocked rainbows. So at the end of the day let us not forget that our rainbows here are not native. (Not including the population of Athabascans which are probably a glacial artifact.) We've created an artificial fishery that we try to manage with genetically heterogeneous lines of hatchery fish. I suspect that the folks at the hatcheries are doing a pretty good job. They won't get any complaints from me with what they've produced for Bullshead and Police. And it came to pass that the sun finally emerged ... and I am going for a walk with my camera!

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Thanks to everyone! Regards Clive

Thanks Terry. You know the Beatles wrote a song for us, eh? The good Lord willin' and the criks don't rise I have purchased my last fishing license. Bet that next March will be warmer and fishing at Police and Bullshead will be hot come April 1 .... and out of sheer stubbornness I will not fish the first week of April 2012 just so I don't have to buy a license...unless of course they change the regs so seniors have to get a license starting next year! Ya think? Clive

7. "TACO'S TRIP INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN" with your host/guide Taco $125 Clive

"TACO'S TRIP INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN" with your host/guide Taco WTF is this Taco? ... you taking someone to the Deerfoot? It is the "great unknown" to me. Just kidding .. thanks. Clive

Good on you MrB. Well done. THIS will interest you. That cookhouse? Was still there in 2008! :$*%&: If you want, send me an email and I will send you a PDF of a long letter I sent to Morton 2 years ago..also his reply that would gag a maggot. Bah! I also have my letters from 2001 and 2002 as well. Nothing changes. Regards Clive SCHAUPMEYER AT GMAIL DOT COM

Thanks Smitty and everyone. I also sent a letter to the minister in addition to the note to Terry. Good on ya all. Thanks Clive

"If you want to suck up big time, book a lunch for you and your significant other @ the Dove's Nest in Glenmore Landing. I know, I know but after nearly 45 years of marriage to the same woman, you learn that sucking up matters. The restaurant serves Quiche regularly. The women/man ratio is about 25:1. " Funny line Don. Too bad Stevie Wonder was not there. How 'bout Lizzie May and a gaggle of followers eating organic, free-range egg quiche heated in solar-powered ovens.

Some clues as to the probable high BS factor in the article. 1) "computer modeling program" ... they can be made to prove whatever you want. 2) "global warming" .. which explains total destruction of the universe ... well, or not. See here. The whole article falls under the same scientific category as "if my aunt had balls she's be my uncle." Everything we do has risks. If we stopped imposing risks we'd stop living.

"Remember that a teleconverter will half your maximum aperture, so your f4 lens becomes an f8." This is very important point and holds true for a 2X converter. You can also get a 1.4X converter making a 200mm into a 280 mm and you only lose one f stop (I think it is one). "And not all telephotos will work with the teleconverter." VERY important. Need to check before buying. Good points JayVee. BTW ..bcude knows the spot!