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Come on rick, people nymph for one very particular reason, and it's not for the love of the way it casts! <--- Nymphed the last 3 times out

Anyone have any experience with snowshoeing up Galatea creek? Looking for a new adventure for this weekend. We've done most of the big name snowshoes (rawson, rummel, chester), and looking for more!

why not?

My folks also have a lab/golden mix, who is probably the most mellow dog i've ever met.....pretty as retriever, dumb as a lab

Tough to beat a lab or retriever as a fishing/hiking/hunting etc partner, especially if you can get one with smaller parents. I've seen them as small as 50lbs, with a lot around 60...Can't wait to get out of renting so we can get a pup

I'd move to Terrace in about a nano second...not many jobs there for the non-retired though

I caught one by southland dog park this year... Friend at DFO was freaked out, ASRD didn't care

And the Bow is seeing some..

"The Porsche isn't my cup of tea and probably won't find a home in my garage. I thnk the BMW's or Mercedes are far more suited to my driving style. It's also crazy expensive" Just funny that you call it crazy expensive, yet have a place for equally expensive rods in your boat...

Crazy expensive? It's about the same price as the TXL-F and ZXL's when they first came out..

Just a note, i own an assault XX..and bent out an oar on the bulkley, which is a class 1, maybe 2 (for the people who would know (pkk, uliwon, etc) what would you class Tatlow and Telkwa stuff?) where i floated.. Even with upgraded oars, the rack and pin system is an obvious short coming for heavy water. like i said, great fishing system, but don't kid yourself that you'd be ok in class 5

there is no way in hell you'd be running the Assault boats in class 5 and being ok out the bottom They are great fishing boats, but the class 5 rating is a joke (you don't see the Aires and Maravia's of the world giving their boats a whitewater rating...)

Funny, no issue with volunteering to float the elbow to count redds this fall....

Pete (Über). Only the Lamson Konic has Korean parts.. All their machined reels are USA manufactured and assembled And your not going to find a cheaper reel of that quality that's made (manufactured or assembled) in NA.

so that's what a good logo looks like....*cough cough*

Tungsten, think of why it's easier to hold onto them with a glove, versus them slipping away with a bare hand.

Since we're supposed to get a little warm spell, I'm sure some will be heading out to the river. Just a simple reminder from all our trout buddies to try to not touch them with gloves on, as it removes their protective slimes! Happy new year!

Rip pull and a bit of torque. That one cutty in the Oldman with a mandible left will be an outcast no longer!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Logging+plan+home+risk+species+draws+fire/7651745/story.html Sigh

Nothing new Rick, seems to be the biggest in the steelhead world...just have to have a passionate guy tell you about raising a steelhead to a dry and you understand why they don't care about landing them

And really, as a guide you should be teaching how to land fish with barbless hooks...

The science is also a bit skewed, as I've never seen a study using "unskilled" people to remove hooks. Joe angler who fishes 4 times a year or taking their kids out once a month won't be as proficient at removing a barbed hook. Barbless should be mandatory just for the time it takes to release a fish.

I just did duct tape and it worked. Best rope I've found is used climbing rope. Can get cheaper than pretty well any other, and is almost indestructible

Bingo. The attitude of show the science that something is being negatively effected, rather then looking for ways to mitigate before anything does happen is getting tiring. Look how well that worked out for west coast salmon/steelhead runs

The science is proven. "–The effects of angler wading on trout eggs and pre-emergent fry in artificial redds depended on wading frequency and stage of egg or fry development and was similar for brown trout Salmo trutta, rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, and cutthroat trout O. clarki. Twice-daily wading throughout development killed up to 96% of eggs and pre-emergent fry. A single wading just before hatching killed up to 43%. Wading killed fewest eggs between fertilization and the start of chorion softening (except for a short period during blastopore closure when mortality increased slightly). It killed the most eggs or fry from the time of chorion softening to the start of emergence from the gravel. Restriction of wading could be an effective management tool if trout spawning habitat is limiting and angler use is high during egg development." Effects of Angler Wading on Survival of Trout Eggs and Pre-emergent Fry Bruce C. Roberts, Robert G. White. North American Journal of Fisheries Management Vol. 12, Iss. 3, 1992 Why is that the Lower Bow is currently exempt from the typical rules that are being followed for pretty well all other fisheries (aka, no fishing during spawning time). The vast majority of other fisheries are protected in areas and times of spawning, why shouldn't the Bow be?