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It also appears as though nobody knows who my avatar, David Brent is. He's from the original tv series 'The Office' on the BBC. Check it: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=da...p;search=Search

Lawrence checking out his new bag! Yeah...Daddy Won! Daddy Won! Big thanks to Gordon for the demo! Brownstone (aka Gregg, aka "2-Gs"), what the hang are you doing here? Toolman doing his thang.

Hi All, Thanks everyone for coming out. Hope all had a good time. The weather was great and it was awesome meeting many of the people I've been interacting with over the past few years. A few requests: Anyone that has taken pics during the day, please forward them to richard.samuel.wong@gmail.com. If you have too many, I can send you a link to an ftp site where you can upload all at once. PM me if necessary. Need someone with webpage development skills. We would like to put up a formal page to summarize the day and thank sponsors. Anybody interested? It would be much appreciated and would likely only take half an hour or so. Here's a smattering of pictures from the bbq that I've taken: Lawrence (LK) and Chris (Wetduck) talking about the finer points of eating burgers efficiently. LoneFisher working da 'cue Glen showing off the spatula:

nice pics. getting called 'hoss' is a term of endearment. it's a huge compliment. i'm still awaiting my first 'hoss'......sniff.

check it! and yes, i am checking out fly fishing/casting videos when i should be working.

check it! i remember somebody posted that casting video from a couple months back and we were discussing whether there was practical application of it. looks like this guy's got it down.

thought I'd post these links as nobody has already: http://www.cbc.ca/eyeopener/ (click on 'Socialist Alberta' and 'Royalty Reaction') http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200709/20070921.html i haven't read these posts just yet but will get around to it eventually...

doesn't sound like there's much trash there. you should just take me in that case!

We don't have all that much control over government spending. We can only have a legitimate say during voting periods. One way we can all make a difference is to...... Come down to the bow river cleanup this saturday! Free food, lots of prizes, and wicked awesome fisher people to hang with! I'm sure dryfly and weedy would come on down if they were in town! Wouldn't ya? Wouldn't ya? For those interested, after Toolman's high stick demo we can have a discussion on the finer points of climate change. Seriously, come on down and make a real tangible difference on the water you fish. Prove that you care. hijack, complete.

dang! you should take me out there to assess the garbage problem and potentially organize a cleanup!

yeah, those are awesome pics.

and.... participating in the bow river cleanup!! right? on another note, i had also figured that the fish would be on the move but early afternoon i had a couple 18" cutts hit #18 adams in shallow quick runs about 18-24" deep. i figured they'd be moving to the pools but where i was they were still in the deeper runs.

i'd suggest looking into exchange programs, co-ops or workterms in other countries (as rusty has suggested). get 2 birds with one stone. i totally would've done this if i had the guts to at the time. hindsight kicks me in the ass so hard sometimes.

i really look forward to continuing this discussion....... AT THE BOW RIVER CLEANUP EVENT NEXT SATURDAY THE 22ND!! tell your friends. free food!

hey Jayvee, head out to the bow river cleanup event next weekend. you'll learn how to catch monster fish nymphing using toolman's techniques and find fishing partners to show you how to winter fish! did i mention the free food? and the prizes? bring your friends! go cleanup! hurray for exclamation marks!

hi there. let me make an introduction. i've just started to use facebook and i suck at it. i need help. i've created a facebook event names "Bow Cleanup". I'd like to send it to everyone listed under the Calgary Fly Fishing group which is managed by Neeper i believe. the event is made. when i try to invite people it just lists people in my personal contacts list who are not fisher people. HOW THE HANG DO I INVITE THE CALGARY FLY FISHING GROUP?!?! thanks for putting up with my lame-o question.

hey hey, that's the spirit. beyah!

Thanks again for participating. Please join us on the 22nd in the FFC Bow River Cleanup event. There will be free food and prizes to compensate you for your hard work. Hope to see you out there!

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when i have stuff start to go around the hook shank on me it is usually because i didn't wrap with enough thread underneath. the thread will have a higher friction coefficient than the surface of the hook so the hair will stay in place easier. i'd suspect that you're starting your thread halfway down the hookshank and working your way back to the hook eye where there is no thread base. then you're trying to tie in the elk/deer hair on a bare hook surface. combine that with brent's pinch technique and you should be golden. than again i've only been tying for a couple years so it could be a million other things as well. if these suggestions don't work out then post your problem again until it gets fixed!

Thanks for participating! It is clear to me that there are fellow conservationists that also pick up trash and that I shouldn't feel hopeless out there as I feel like I might be the loner.

we should also note that throat samples can vary between fish depending on where they usually lie. a fish down south from policeman's down would have more hoppers in it's diet with the grassy adjacent fields compared with say a fish that lives in the NW by the 10th street and princes island park as it's all riprap along there with residential housing. it would be important to know the habitat of the fish when analyzing throat samples and diet. even grassy areas in the NW are devoid of hoppers as some get too much moisture.

chuck who?

i'd also add that hoppers would tend to fall into the river more in september october wouldn't they? as they start to die off they lose the energy to navigate themselves properly above water as MTB suggested earlier. Toolman, perhaps you can convince your throat-pumping entomologist friend to try the same experiment again in say late-september or early-october. and i like the idea of fishing a stone-hopper combo. i myself have caught about 100x more fish on stimulators over hoppers but i likely fish stimmies 50x as often.

great pics!