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  1. bcubed
    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.
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    Not sure color matters. It's in a fish's brain to kill an egg if they see it..
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    Yearly? In this day and age, any 28 or above brown trout would be so splattered over the internet, and undoubtedly a guide would have stumbled into them at least a couple times a year. Catching ‘many’ a year... right
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    All the fish i dont land are also 30+".. same with the flies i lose on the bottom.. i mean 30"ers
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    I catch 28+ all the time. Conveniently when my phone, camera and measuring tape are missing for some reason..
  6. bcubed
    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...
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    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
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    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.
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    FlyFishy got a new account! Yay!
  10. bcubed
    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
  11. bcubed
    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.
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    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
  13. bcubed
    Did flyfishy get a new account? like..what?
  14. bcubed
    Bonefish yes, others no. Apparently tarpon guys fight between barbed and unbarbed as the barbless are easier to penetrate.. my thoughts are if i stick a permit or tarpon, i want every little bit of help i can get. You'll always find more bonefish..
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    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..
  16. bcubed
    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.
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    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
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    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
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    Ding ding ding.. Funny how much people speak about caring for the resource, yet can't get a dozen people to volunteer for a restoration event, or the ones that do arent actually that into angling..
  20. bcubed
    Word lately from Water Act is 400 days for approval..hope they accelerate it for Not-for-profits
  21. bcubed
    Just gonna throw this out there, do you have your Water Act and Temporary Field Authorizarion submitted or in place?
  22. bcubed
    Yikes, 4E might be a bit much. Simms typically have the widest
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    Think most people don't actually realize that TUCs mandate is the following: " To conserve, protect and restore Canada’s freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations." With that mandate, it pretty much has to be supportive of a closure that's goal is to "conserve, protect and restore". With that, there is obviously some benefits for anglers, but they are not an angler group. Something like the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers group is a little more angler-driven with their mission.
  24. bcubed
    I don’t think you’ll see barbless anytime soon due to the complications in how they set up the Alberta Fisheries Act under the federal Fisheries Act. Currently they have say they have zero way of doing it. Unsure how BC was able to, except that DFO doesn’t allow barbed gear for nearshore (so probably why). Funny to think that closing a river entirely is less onerous then a gear restriction.
  25. bcubed
    Bull trout will be next..SARA listed shortly
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