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Thought some of you might be interested in watching the following documentary tonight on the CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/tarsands/ I believe it will air at 7pm Mountain (9 Eastern). For all the market-liberating-conservatives out there there, I have been told that this particular show will NOT open with hippies sitting around a campfire smoking doobies singing kum-bay-ah. Who knows, you might even find it balanced as CAPP is listed as one of the external sources of information. For those without much knowledge of oil sands, it would be a good opportunity to learn what much of the royalty hype is about in Alberta since Stelmach took office. Unfortunately I'll be in transit when it airs.

<---- possibly the last time i'll ever use one of these emoticon thingies. nice one!

fyi, when i eat a sausage and egg mcmuffin (or the knock-off at tims) i usually have to crap my pants. not a good food choice for me on the way out fishing. note that 'crap my pants' refers to 'explosive nuclear meltdown diarrhea'.

i think tim horton's coffee tastes like sewage. if i drink coffee, i make it at home with high quality grounds and just put it in a steeper with hot water. easier, quicker and cheaper.

clouser's crayfish looks good (although untested to myself ... yet): http://www.lifr.org/Clauserscrawfish.htm http://www.peninsulaflyfishers.org/Fly_Tyi...erCrayfish.html http://www.clouserflyfishing.com/clouscraytyi.html i'd be interested to see any others out there as well.

just get something that has enough system requirements to play guitar hero. that's all you need!

i'd also experiment by shortening up the hook shank length. having a shorter shank (with beadhead and weight) with a longer marabou tail makes for some sweet action with a jigging motion. the flies displayed look dang good though already. my 2 cents.

hotel rwanda is also a good movie to watch as well. it's the hollywood version of 'shake hands with the devil'. both are good movies.

that's the result when chuck norris has to take a leak. supersonic velocities + diamond studded urea = DEADLY btw, chuck norris could also beat a brick wall in a game of tennis. a couple more norris links (but no mention of peuce): http://youtube.com/watch?v=n8QAeoFdM5g http://youtube.com/watch?v=NdD54rG9oQA thanks birchy.

Hawg, this is an interesting comment you've made from 2 perspectives: perspective 1: fiscal conservatives (whether they be liberal or PC striped) are the type that like to slash governments and put the services into the private sector. there is no way that you will ever see pro-active government in this area if we keep electing strictly fiscal conservatives. small governments do not have the capacity to be dealing with recreational fisheries. big ticket items include health care, education, police services, climate change, foreign policy. if you have small governments, who the hell is going to handle the lesser priority items like recreation? recreation is WAY down on the priority list for governments. for small fiscally conservative governments to deal with issues like this effectively, it needs to be profitable and dealt with effectively by the private sector (ie. handed over to private sector). this means that fisheries management falls into private hands that will charge users money for operations and maintenance. that's the only way it will get dealt with pro-actively. i don't believe that small governments can ever be pro-active enough. by nature, they have a smaller capacity to deal with these types of issues. edit: another mechanism of funding/public-service that governments can count on is philanthropy perspective 2: like i said before, it has to be an election issue for governments to take action on things. governments are slow by nature. they react to public demand. public demand follows those 'activists' that lead the charge (in this case it is hardcore conservationists). remember, fly fishers are a subset of fishers are a subset of nature enthusiasts which are a subset of total population. with respect to the rest of the population, we are tiny or a 'special-interest-group'. governments lag public demand who lag activists. if we believe that this is a serious issue then we need to be raising it louder and more often to sway public demand which will sway governments. comments? it appears to me that this topic is dead anyhow.

Politicians are self interested and will react to whatever voters tell them. If more voters tell them that they care about fisheries and conservation, then they will alter their platforms to reflect this. They want to be re-elected. Take for example the 180 the federal conservatives have done on climate change. Before the "science wasn't conclusive" but now they're willing to spend 'all these billions of dollars of my hard-earned taxpayer money' on building carbon storage pipelines and creating industrial/commercial/residential incentives. Even the Alberta conservatives are addressing climate change (at least superficially). Why? Because it's what the voters want and the ministers want to stay in power. If we really wanted to see action on fisheries conservation, we'd need to work on a number of fronts: volunteer action (like our Bow River Cleanup), non-profit groups (like Trout Unlimited or Nature Conservancy of Canada) and at the political level. For the latter, we'd need to gather support from as many as we could and demonstrate to the candidates that this is an election issue. Perhaps with a petition of some sort and try to meet with candidates to 'lobby' them. It is rare that a single-pronged approach will be effective. The really difficult part is that recreational fisheries will always take a back seat to climate change, health care and education as the electorate largely doesn't care about the topic. But as stated by Don, there doesn't appear to be much interest in fisheries conservation even on a fly fishing forum (at least indicated by hit count).

you can also buy white antron on a spool in the thread section. only some shops carry it though...

yes, you should bargain with them if you don't feel that's a fair price. after all, you pay into insurance for exactly this purpose. don't be bashful to come back with a higher number of what you think you deserve. i would bring them the list of equivalent vehicles and show them what you can get in your current market (immediate geographical area). then explain to them that you vehicle was kept in better/worse/equivalent shape as those in the list. i'd make a list for calgary, alberta, and maybe canada listing low, high, median, and mean prices for each geographical area. i'd also cite these if they are publicly available data. i'd use kijiji, craiglist but also things like the auto trader and that lemon-aid book. another good idea is to collect all the work you've done on the car recently (ie. new tires, replace timing belt or whatever). if that work is relatively new, it'll give you some more suport and should put you in a better bargaining position. sum this up in terms $$$ spent and increase in value of your car. doesn't hurt to try right? but you need evidence to support your position. that's my 2 cents.

happy birthday ..... man!

here's two more theories (i haven't read the urinal cake theory just yet): theory 1 - fish eat nymphs even though they may be attached to things in the drift (algae, leaves, tree bark etc). they eat the whole thing and expel the debris. they might be thinking they can expel the debris the nymph is attached to. theory 2 - if your nymphs are on bottom and the fish is not, then the fish is looking down at the nymph. the hook may be hiding underneath the body of the nymph if the nymph is in the flow as it is on your vise. naturally this is less of a factor for stillwater.

happy birthday dave!!

exactly what i was thinking. good to know. i was about to post a 10,000 word essay on basic statistics and modeling work in response to the argument that all statistics/modeling are bunk. no need now...disaster averted. nice pic too btw. i wasn't really around for this infamous jetboat thread or whatever. great pic!

what purpose would a regression analysis serve on this poll?

i actually despise the leafs. actually, it's leaf fans that really get to me. i just think it's hilarious to play the leafs card in alberta and see people's reactions. most people just ignore me, some try to change the subject and some get really defensive about it. this is the 3rd time i've mentioned the leafs in the last few weeks on FFC and there hasn't been a single reply. i can see that the FFC crowd is the ignoring type! what do you guys want to talk about now?

did anybody else hear that calgarians 2nd favourite hockey team is the leafs?! that's totally rad cause i love the leafs. i think this year's leafs team is going all ... the ... way! definitely the best hockey team of all time. go leafs go!! who's with me? Canada's team!

being muslim is a religion; lebanon is a country. if someone is speaking arabic (a language) then they can be from lots of places in the middle east. you can't tell where someone is from or their religious beliefs based on the way they talk or look. and i'm not sure that a 50 year old school teacher in the developing world is concentrating on getting 'rich'. she's probably there for other reasons. too bad about the teddy bear situation. hopefully her embassy will get her out of there.

you mean you don't like watching the leafs? i thought everybody in canada loved the leafs. aren't they 'canadas team'? go leafs go!

i've been loving this chuck norris application i found on facebook. Here is a quick smattering:

looks like a pretty sweet fly to me. if it were me, i'd also cut down on the hackle wraps as you have more than enough floatation going on in the back half of the fly. it's just because i'm ultra-cheap too. still, that thing'll float like a battle ship! nice tie! change the colour underneath for an adult stone too!

i have the simms lightweights and like them a lot but for my next pair i'm going to go with patagonia. very reasonable prices: http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/product/co...R.WOMENS.WADERS and i'm sure that no other company does as much to preserve the natural environment: http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/contributi...mp;assetid=1809 ethical manufacturing policy & great environmental policy. that's the company getting my money next time around. a friend has a pair of patagonia's and likes them (but has less than 30 days on em). actually, now that i review their website in greater detail, it appears they only sell women's waders. dang it!