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an annual pie-klein event aka "The see if you can get pie up klein's nose event" or a dedicated day for abusing legislative pages aka "The I'm an upset baby and nobody listens to me day" or the construction of a facility where anybody who enters is free to openly poke fun at people who are disabled or a monthly event where everybody rich goes downtown, gets totally bombed and berates the homeless at their shelters aka "Memorial denigration of the poor day". those have to make the list.

pick up a backroads mapbook for southern alberta. cost you about $20 and most fly shops carry them (among other stores). super handy for checking out access points along all the streams. unfortunately i haven't fished much in the area so not sure about conditions down there. good luck!

Teck, The best thing yuo can do is pick up a backroads mapbook for southern alberta. they cost about 20 bucks and most fly shops have them (i know troutfitters has a big pile of them for alberta and bc). it will have tons of road access points to fish rivers. keep it in your car and you can reference it whenever you are driving around the southern foothills. i haven't fished much lately down in the oldman drainage so others will have to prescribe access points in that area.

Has anybody in the history of the universe ever won anything sizeable from those dang safeway cardboard handouts? the most I've ever amounted to was 10 dang air miles. DANG!

my scuds look typical but the oliver edwards deep diving shrimp looks freaking insane. you could catch any fish on the planet with that thing. here's an example but it doesn't do the real tie justice: http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/oeddshrimp/ i looked for oliver's tie online but couldn't find it.

i like the ice dub too as i find it's easier to work with but the real peacock herl gets slicked up in the water and gets flow-y and looks more like gills under the water (presumably). it also has the iridescent purply look to it which i like.

sa-weet action! hey, look at my gut!

i can't believe 2 things: 1) that nobody has pulled out the 'fear monger' card that usually gets pulled during these topics 2) that nobody cares i can't find an indian lunch buffet in the downtown for less than $15

happy birthday!

http://www.albertaroyaltyreview.ca/panel/bios.html each of the panel members was an economist or worked in the industries at the highest levels Bill Hunter - President of northern economics development Judith Dwarkin - Chief Economist Ross Smith Energy Group Andre Plourde - Professor and Chair of Dept of Economics at UofA Ken Mckenzie - Professor Economics UofC Sam Spanglet - Former VP Oil Sands Operations Shell Canada Evan Chrapko - President of project cost accounting firm for energy sector If these people don't fit the bill, who would you suggest to lead a royalty review? Also note that there was a public review stage in the royalty review process. They took in concerns from citizens and they took that into account into their recommendations. Check the home page of the link above. So far all the info I've heard has been anecdotal at best. Oil hit $90/bbl yesterday while the lifting costs are still less than half of that. I'm still not seeing how big oil is going to be affected. Are there any labour councils or unions that are criticizing the royalty adjustment? If there's so many jobs at stake why have I not heard anything from these organizations? Seems like only big oil is publicly against royalty review. Everyone else is on board with it. I'm still not seeing how there will be tens of thousands of jobs lost over this.

Alberta Chamber of Resources, 2004. Oil Sands Technology Roadmap. Accessed online at http://www.acr-alberta.com/Projects/Oil_Sa...ogy_Roadmap.htm Figure 2.2 on page 12 has cost info. Operating costs for mining and in-situ extraction follow in subsequent chapters. If this info is not accurate, then I'd be happy to take a look at any other info that can be supplied. I don't really know the oil sands business so others might have more insight.

I'll find the reference for the lifting cost later on tonight. But for now, a news article! http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news...k=80683&p=1

I'm not sure I understand why so many jobs will be lost because of this royalty review. The fact is that the lifting cost for a barrel of crude is between $20 and $30 per barrel averaged over the life of the project. This includes oil sands operations which is the most expensive recovery in Alberta (that I'm aware of). Current price of oil is $70+ and increasing. Investing 20-30/bbl to get back 70+ doesn't seem like too much of a risk to me. Also take into consideration that the review included taxes (termed total government take). Even when they considered taxes + royalties Canada was still low comparatively. Then include that a member of the panel worked for Shell as the director of Oil Sands operations (he actually comments on the radio that he believes royalties should be increased). Perhaps the smaller operations won't fare as well as they don't have as much capital as Rick suggests. I still don't understand how so many people will lose their jobs. Yes, there is a slow-down in the industry. Of course there is. Once the dust settles, I think business should pick back up again, would it not? lifting cost of $20-30/bbl + >$70/bbl selling price + royalty review affirmed by oil sands executive + politically stable country ====================== = mega profits for me, i make less than the average person who works in O&G and have to deal with the high inflation that is driven by the excess disposable income people have. I don't have that disposable income so it becomes more and more expensive to live in this city. Like dang, I can even find an indian lunch buffet in the downtown for less than $15!!

I was fishing at dusk the other day until dark and noticed something real weird which I reported to RAP. I was fishing various flies when a guy across the river started shining a flashlight around as if he was looking for something and real erratic like. After about 5-10 minutes he left and came back about 10 minutes later with someone else. Then the 2 hammered something metal-like for about 2-3 minutes. Then they sat down, turned their white light off and then turned a red light on. It appeared as though they were shining the red light into the water. Called them into RAP because it looked like they were going to be camping out for a bit. They said they didn't know if they had the people-power to look into it. Could this be some other activity other than poaching?

thanks Dave (and admins) for your work on the board. it's been great hanging around. were it not for the board, i wouldn't have learned jack during my time here about fly fishing and i wouldn't bother calling in poachers either (like i did tonight). you get a big hug next time i see you!

i'm fishing the jumpingpound using electricity as bait.

that film can thing is a great suggestion. no more stuffing leader/tippet into a pocket and having dangly ends. i'm totally doing that.

i catch the tree trout and grass bass every time i'm out...

i harvested 3 fish from a friend's dugout on the weekend and checked the stomach contents. 2 of the fish had mostly digested material but had a few scuds which makes sense as we had caught all 3 fish on scuds. the 3rd fish was bursting with boatmen. like an insane amount of boatmen in varying sizes from about a size 14 down to an 18 and all eaten within the past day. all these fish were caught in the same area of the pond and the pond is only about 2000-3000 sq ft in surface area. also all these rainbows were in the 14" range. any ideas why these fish would be foraging on significantly different food items? is there such a thing as a fish having a personal preference for food items? it could be that the underwater weed structure might encourage more scuds over boatmen and that 1 boatman fish just happened to swim to the side of the pond when we caught it.

here is the alberta fishing regs. click on 'Other Informaiton' and there's a section on dioxans/furans and mercury. it also states that mercury can be eliminated from the body at a slow rate which is something i did not know previously. check it out!

congrats playdoh! you're on your way. also, i'm not sure the current speed has much to do with toxin concentrations in fish. the toxins become accumulated in algae, then in the inverts and all the way up the food chain. it's called bioaccumulation and biomagnification. it just magnifies up the food chain into the top feeders. another thing to note is that once heavy metals (like lead, or mercury) don't leave your body or the fish's body as they these tend to accumulate in the bone marrow. but then again, i think every organism on the planet has mercury poisoning now due to human development so it might be a mute point. and i'm not a fish toxicologist; this info is from organizations like the david suzuki foundation and other environmental organizations tell me. perhaps they've twisted around the truth about fish and mercury in order to further a personal political agenda but that's for others to describe to you. just search "fish" and "mercury" in google and you'll find tons. also check with the regs as they have a section in there as well on eating fish.

thanks for your reply kerry. good tip on the line. i do have a pocket full of leader bits. another tip is i often use different leader/tippet setups for dries versus say streamers. i use old tippet spools to hold my different leader configurations so that i don't have to waste my leaders in the first place and reduces trash. i fished a canyon yesterday where the only reason somebody would be there would be to fish. i found a cigarette butt on shore (belmont)! what kind of a moron leaves a cigarette butt on the shore of a pristine mountain stream? you hike all the way in there to enjoy wilderness and then stamp out your butts and leave them there?!?! pack out your dang trash!

i also didn't catch jack for the first dozen times i went fishing. i'd also suggest that you try to speak with fly fisherman that you see in the fly shops and on the river for tips and such. just mention to them that "i'm new to this, done it less than a dozen times and just wanted to ask you a couple questions" or something along those lines. i think i spoke to everybody on the river that i saw for the first 2 years on every trip for tips on fly selection etc. it helped me out immensely.

yep, that's a bluegill. pumpkinseed are more colourful with more reds and such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkinseed

It's been a pretty good season. Wished I hadn't played so much danged softball this year to open up more fishing time. Explored some new water this year (Bow, Sheep, Castle (+ lots of tribs), upper/lower Oldman (+lots of tribs), Upper Bow, Elk, St Mary). Improved on my high-stick nymphing. Fished with my girlfriend lots in the mountains. Caught my largest Bull Trout (26.5") Caught a few browns that were my largest (24") Ice-fished once on chain lakes and had luck on nymphs. Hardly caught any rainbows from the bow which was really odd. Had a lot of fun exploring new places this year. Wished I had another few years in Alberta to explore the southern foothills but unfortunately it's time to move on to bass and musky.