danhunt

Nothing wrong with Uberfly's suggestions, but you can also consider a higher end TFO like a TiCR or TiCRX, or maybe an Amundson Wind Warrior and have some coin left over for a new line or maybe even a reel...

I have a danvise and all in all I think it is a great vise for the money. Like someone said earlier, the jaws are a little soft and they tend to spread over time, but a friend who has the same vise sent an email to the company asking if he could buy some replacements and they sent him a new set at no cost. I don't know if they still do this, but it was one of the reasons I decided to buy one. My only other issue, and it could just be me, is that I find the shape of the vice a little awkward when working on the rear portion of smaller patterns. Oh, one other thing, if you get one and you happen to get the C clamp model be sure to install the little rubber dots on the inside of the clamp. Without them the vise has a tendancy to slip.

I take my vehicles to Folk Automotive of off Ogden Road on 16a street. They've always treated me right, and the only time I had something go wrong (not even their fault, it was a set of faulty struts) they made it right with no hassel. In fact, we had the clutch go in our car on the way home last winter and a shop in the town where I live quoted $2500 to replace it and we would have to wait two weeks on parts. I called Folk and they were able to get in the same day plus they were about $700 lower. Even with a tow in to town we still came out money ahead.

On Sunday I broke the tip of a rod I had built on a Dancraft blank that I had bought at Fishtales. I went in today and they were able to warranty the blank and they gave me a new tip section from one of the blanks they had in stock. No fuss, no muss, no hassle. Its been said before, but its worth saying again - GREAT SHOP!

In BC triploids have been stocked for a while now and my experience, which is purely subjective, is that triploids will grow large, but they don't seem to fight as well as normal diploid fish. That could be due to environmental conditions rather than the physiology of the fish, but I have to say I haven't missed them too much while I've been catching wild Bow freight trains the last two years... Below are some quotes taken from various websites that tell a little more about triploids. As you can see from the last one, its important to play them quickly and leave them alone entirely if the water gets too warm... How do fish farmers produce triploids? To make fish triploid the newly fertilised eggs are physically shocked. In practice this means the eggs are placed in a special pressure vessel and subjected to a very high pressure. The timing after fertilisation and the actual pressure are critical to the process. If the farmer times this wrong then mistakes can be made. The balance is a fine one. Too little and it does not cause triploidy whilst too much pressure kills the eggs. It is difficult to judge the success until the fish can be sampled and examined under the microscope, or mature as adults. The triploid eggs go on to hatch and grow normally into adult fish. However it must be remembered that the process is a biological one and as such triploidisation is rarely 100% effective. Some fish of each batch seem to escape the process and mature as normal fish. We expect our suppliers to provide fry that are normally much better than 90% triploid. That is we generally expect that one fish in ten from a batch of triploids will develop eggs in maturity. It is therefore important that the farmer grades the fish to remove any hen fish before these fish are stocked into critical waters. This is a point often overlooked and a batch of triploids may still contain a small number of fertile fish. The Physiology of Triploid Fish: A Model for Applied Research in Aquaculture. Tillmann J. Benfey, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 6E1 Triploid fish are sterile as a result of having three sets of chromosomes in their somatic cell nuclei rather than the normal (diploid) two sets. Although there are compelling reasons for using sterile fish in aquaculture, triploidy has not been embraced by the salmonid aquaculture industry because of real and perceived differences in their culture characteristics that can best be summarized as a reduced tolerance to chronic stress. Triploid salmonids also exhibit increased rates of jaw, gill and opercular deformities, as well as the presence of dividing and fragmented red blood cells. These effects of triploidy likely result from fundamental physiological differences between diploids and triploids that arise from increased nuclear and cellular volume in the latter. Exercise Physiology Triploids and diploids appear to have equivalent aerobic capacities (Stillwell and Benfey, 1997), but triploids have lower oxygen consumption rates when swimming aerobically in a respirometer (Stillwell and Benfey, 1996) and during recovery from exhaustive exercise (Hyndman et al., 2002a). The question arises as to whether the decrease in red blood cell surface area to volume ratio affects cellular oxygen consumption rates in triploids, but this does not appear to be the case: oxygen consumption rates of triploid blood are not significantly different from diploid rates (1.87 ± 0.51 vs. 1.67 ± 0.28 nmol/ml/min/g Hb, respectively; Currie and Benfey, unpubl.). The overall responses to exhaustive exercise at 9°C are similar in triploids and diploids, although triploids recover more quickly from acidosis, muscle ATP depletion and muscle lactate accumulation (Hyndman et al., 2002a). At 19°C, on the other hand, triploids exhibit high (90%) mortality within 4 hours of exhaustive exercise (compared to no mortality in diploids) and demonstrate reduced anaerobic capacity as reflected by an absence of phosphocreatine depletion and slower muscle ATP recovery and lactate elimination (Hyndman et al., 2002b). These results help explain the previously demonstrated reduced tolerance of triploid rainbow trout (O. mykiss) to elevated temperatures (Ojolick et al., 1995).

I have the 9' 6wt and it is a sweet casting rod, but like the post above mine broke on the 2nd trip out with it. First rod I've broken in about 12 years.

I'll volunteer to tie a dozen flies to help get you back up and running. What do you need? Anyone interested in lending a hand?

Sadly, the "Meat Hole" on the Vedder is worse than that. I was fishing the river about three years ago and we drove up to watch the circus before we left. One of the funniest things I saw was a gentleman fishing with a rod that was about 5' long with a little close faced push button spinning reel on it. He had managed to hook what looked to be about a 25lb chinook, and he had that little rod doubled over trying to move that fish. The chinook was sitting about 10' directly in front of the fisherman not showing any signs of concern and not moving one inch. I wish I could have stayed to see that rig explode when the fish had enough fooling around and decided to make a run...

I was fishing in the Fernie area yesterday and I lost my blue SA nymph box when one of the zippers on my vest broke. If anyone has found a box like this please let me know and I'll identify the contents as well as where I lost it. I'm offering a $100 for its return. Thanks!

It was pretty slow this weekend at Cataract. The water was nice and clear but still high and cold, and all of the fish I moved were on a #16 evil weavil. Upstream of the bridge that you cross on the way in to the camp is a meadow that has some good water. The falls are probably too much of a hike for the little guy.