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Give a shop a call, they'll sometimes have a person or two that has given them the same request and may be able to help you with some matchmaking..I'd just ensure that you are clear with what you're wanting, such that you don't have two guys butting heads about what they want out of the day (say a guy only wants to fish dries, while the other just wants numbers..it won't be a pleasant day in the boat).

Suspect that if they're found to not have any whirling, they'd be kept shut to avoid transferring it there

Highwood was mud today on highway 2

Peter, was there allowance for work outside of isolation within the Water Act and DFO Request for Review..?

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From my understanding 2 was the goal, people probably got a bit excited. Glad to hear it went well and seemed well received. That Banded Peak Plainsbreaker is pretty great

15 feet of t14 and the associated rod required to throw it for trout fishing..

And if the bulkley was anything like last fall..might want to take up the pinner anyway

Just pretend that fish arent the reason you do it (but really, then why are you fishing... dont get me started), and then you can accept getting skunked way easier..

At least if the pinners are getting some, you know they're around. Nothing worse then watching all the guys pulling plugs and pinning getting skunked, and you following through.. Have seen that plenty on the Kitimat

I should have clarified, ya i think it's a bit different when you're matching a "hatch" (particularly fish that are following sockeye/pinks/etc) and matching actual eggs that are present... but you can catch fish on eggs in the middle of winter when there are no natural eggs around, cause fish are programmed to eat them as they're the perfect meal.

Sounds like steelheading to me... they eat all the colors, particularly the one you have on when one finally eats.. Except orange... they dont eat orange.

Not sure color matters. It's in a fish's brain to kill an egg if they see it..

You know cack-handed just means that you don’t switch to left hand up when making traditionally left handed up casts. For example i am a ‘cack handed’ when making a snap t on river right, keeping my right hand up...

haha definitely missed that... Whether or not it's a good idea is pretty much based on your expectations and what a good trip is. Spring steelheading can be super touchy, and if the winter/spring run is anything like last fall, this year will be a difficult one to get into fish. If you're not willing to go a week without a touch, then no, it's probably not worth it. But if you're cool with that, with the possibility of running into the odd fish or two for a week long effort, then why not? It's steelheading, you might be a rockstar, or chump...it varys every cast

you floated from the orange bridge to the city? That's a hell of a long float.. Asking about weather in kitimat is pretty similar to asking for weather here, except the extremes are more so. You can go from blazing hot sun in april to raining 100 mm in a day. I've caught fish on the kitimat that time of year, and have also been blanked on it.. it's steelheading. If you have the time, do it.

FlyFishy got a new account! Yay!

You can definitely blow an oar, but i've broken zero oars, and 3 of those. All of them just from wear overtime, rather then impact events. I carry a spare oar, a spare couple of these, a patch kit..and have only used these pieces in 5 years of use

It's typically not the oar that is the problem. it's this piece. The rotating of the oar flexes the bottom plastic, which eventually cracks and breaks. shouldn't be too surprising, considering they're a $10 piece. Pretty nuts in my mind that the big 3 boat manufacturers all come down to this as the best design option out there.

I think the bigger issue is getting the existing oar lock off the boat. Based on conversations with Outcast, removing one of the patches that has been welded on is pretty much a recipe for disaster as you're risking the integrity of the boat if you take it off.. However could potentially add it on next to the existing patch and just avoid messing with the original. Not sure i'd trust a 'glue-on' verses an ultrasonic weld for the most critical piece on your boat. Probably not a life ender on places like the Bow or Bulkley, but there's plenty big enough water and log jams on the kitimat to make me worry

Did flyfishy get a new account? like..what?

Talked to outcast about their new oarlock..apparently they tried to get it on the Commander and weren't able to make it work in a way that made them happy.....back to the drawing board for me. Still wondering if i can just bolt an oarlock into the plastic bit of the existing oarlocks..

I just wish that someone with the frameless boats would make a better oarlock system. The $10 chinese stick-on oarlock is a joke when it comes to being what keeps you alive. I've broken 3 of them on my scadden, replaced with the same piece from watermaster and same issue.. too much torque on something essentially plastic. The new outcast boats have a great looking oarlock, just not sure there is a way to get that same thing on a 1 person raft.. or why they didnt include it on their new single person boat.

Not to say i told you so... Water Act applications are taking 400+ days. Kind of funny to be able to get through the bureaucracy of DFO quicker then a provincial regulator.. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-water-access-rivers-province-delays-city-watercraft-launching-1.4557610

Let's you change hooks easy, lets you use a much smaller hook for a large fly (way better on the fish, as well as stays in place better) can stack them for size, fly moves away from fish so lasts longer...ive converted to about 98% of my steelhead flies to tubes as they're so much better.. 100% of my chinook flies are tubes now. they just look a little funky