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Do yourself a favor and figure out the upper limit of your budget, and buy the best you can afford. Odds are you'll get a lot less heartache out of it. Waders will all eventually leak, but buying higher end models will give you more bang for the buck in the long run. Im wearing the Simms G4, which while are a tad sum of money, still cost me less in the long run than buying less capable waders way more often. Oh and Support Local Fly Shops!!

Yes I am serious... Pete, can do it somewhere easily accessible like fish creek park

Bring this post up this summer, and I'll volunteer to hop out of my boat mid river wearing waders and shoot a video.

Nothing like the illogical 'waders make you drown' fear to push sales...

Kinda all this thread needs to sum it up...

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?

Need something stiffer to turn the bugs over. If you watch a hopper when casting it will spin in the air, and macramé your line. Regular 'supple' tippet won't cut it Try 6-8lb maxima.

What tippet are you normally running when hopper fishing?

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..

Personally I'd recommend a 9 foot 6 weight, fast like a Sage VXP or TCX (if you can bump that budget a bit). I've always felt that a 7 or 8 is too much stick for the vast majority of the AB trout

Boat or foot for bow?

"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..

Missing a key bit of info. On foot or out of a boat? Out of a boat you can go to something like the streamer express (with an intermediate running line). Will get the fly down and keep it down longer... Really important for mid to late season dredging when fish move to mid river structure. From foot the intermediate running line will sink and tangle, and make shooting tougher, so Id recommend the streamertip from RIO or SA. Mike and Kevin from Country Pleasures are doing a free seminar on streamer fishing at the Show next weekend. Definitely will be worth a look if you want to increase success

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*