darrinhurst

lol It wouldn't surprise me very much if it were true.......

Popped in there today to have a look around. Nice selection of flies. Met Mike, gave me some pointers on flys. Ended up spending $30 on some new flies. What can I say? I'm a sucker for good service.

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I'll admit. I'm impressed. They were pegged to be last in the NW at the start of the season due to the amount of offence they lost in the off season. I bet those hockey "experts" feel pretty dumb now......

whoah whoah whoah WHOAH! Let's not talk crazy now.

Great read, thanks birchy

I picked up a Scierra XDP for my 7 1/2 3wt. Nice size and weight for it. casts beautifully.

I thought he WAS back?

I bought the Wave Net over at Wholesale Sports. Retails for $90. From what I remember anyway.

Come on....my hands aren't THAT big......

Welcome to the board guys!

Happy Birthday man. I hope the Bow treated you right!

No pun intended? LOL

Wow, nice time for the boys to string together a few wins! First, a shoot out victory over the Blues, that really seemed to spark something in Kotalik, considering the next game, the 8-1 drubbing of the Avs, where he gained four points setting up Gagner's first Hat Trick, and getting his first as an Oiler. Then tonight, a hard fought effort against the Blackhawks where he wins it in the shootout for the boys again. Nicely done! Too bad the damn fLAMES couldn't hold onto the lead to keep the Blues out of their hair......

I sure hope that was intentional........lol

Don't forget they're

Even though I have only been fly fishing for less than a year, I do have that "one that got away". Not necessarily because it was too big to handle, but due to a bit of inexperience and technique, I was taught a very valuable lesson. I am lucky enough to have a job where I alternate working mornings vs. working evenings, when I work in the evening, I don't start until 1:00, so I take the time from when I drop the kids off at day care to hit the Bow to do some fishing. One morning when I was partaking in a quite enjoyable morning, I was casting to some rising fish in a fairly still little pool tailing off a side channel. Little risers everywhere, causing the little splashes here and there. I tied on a caddis and started practising my presentations. Was quite frustrating at first, watching them rise all around my fly, but not TO my fly. Tried some different sizes, and finally (although I think it was luck more than anything as I do believe it was in a "foam bath") I had a nice little rainbow take my fly. Ended up with the one currently in my dipslay picture. Was quite proud of myself catching my first rainbow on a dry, but I wasn't done there. After a few more casts, with no luck, I changed up again. Different colour, slightly larger, but this time when I tied on, I had a feeling that I didn't tie it just right. I gave it a "tug test" and it appeared to hold up ok, but the knot still looked a little funny. I just shrugged it off and began to strip out some line and started my false cast. On about the second attempt, I must have made the perfect cast. The line un-rolled better than it had all morning, and landed in what I deemed to be a perfect spot approaching some risers I was watching that day. All of a sudden, a large, dark shadow, came up and completely nailed my fly. It was like a ninja that thing, came from nowhere, big and dark (I can only guess it was a brown) and hit the fly hard, but with little or no splash. No more than a fraction of a second later, the bend in my rod was gone and so was that fish. I went from exhilarating high, to exasperated low in about the same speed. 0.5 seconds. When I pulled my line in, the end of the leader was all curly like the knot un-did. Ever since, I always give it a tug test and if it doesn't feel or look just right, I cut of and tie again. Fist lost, lesson learned. I always think about that fish, and plan on going there again to get him.

Sounds to me like you just need to move to Canmore......

Any fishing shop has them. Picked mine up at Country Pleasures, but FishTales has them too, same with the Fishin' Hole. I've seen them everywhere.

Just got one. Love it. Gobbled up a nice big wind knot this morning like it was a Big Mac™

My chest pack carries a variety of flies for easy access, multiple dries, nymphs and streamers, but I have two extras boxes in the pouch on the back "just in case".

As much as I want them to make the playoffs, I kind of don't. Because I have a faint glimmer of hope that if they miss the playoffs again, MacT will be fired. However, I am not so sure that would be a good thing or not since they will likely replace him with someone else from the old Boys Club, like Buchberger. Then, I am afraid I would have to kill myself. Or start cheering for the fLAMES. But I think I'd rather kill myself.

Pure genius.

Pfft. You have it easy. Try being an Oilers fan, THAT'S tough.

Again, I have to ask, WTF is this world coming to?