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I've been saving up to get a bow and start hunting to fill in the gap between summer fishing and ice fishing. If I do manage to get a bow sorted out, I'd love to team up too unless you're looking for someone experienced. I've only gone out on one walk and stalk so far so I'm still a beginner. It's a little late to get my gun licence sorted out for this year so I'll hopefully start out learning how to hunt with the bow which everyone tells me is much harder.... Will

That's amazing, we fished past that hillbilly toilet two weekends ago (not using it of course!). If you think that random camping was bad on the Carbondale, you should have seen it on the Aug long weekend when we were there. The good thing though was that everyone seemed well behaved and I didn't see crap loads of garbage everywhere. We drove over Lynx but didn't fish it, it looked really nice too.

x2 for the torched on roof. I'm pretty sure I've seen some low slope roofs here with that application done to it. Don't use shingles or tar/gravel, it's crap from my experience and will only last 5 or so years (unless you do plan on selling the place in that time).

Ahhh, I'll have to try that. I don't ever wear fins on my pontoon so that's why I never pull with the motor as it's even more liable to go in circles.

Thanks for the info on the swivel. Trolling motor is awesome for getting around on a bigger lake, the only thing I've found is that you need to figure out some kind of steering system as pontoons don't really go straight naturally with a trolling motor pushing it.

Grats on an awesome gift, I have a Fish Cat as well and you won't be disappointed. I've heard about people upgrading their seat with a swivel but I have never seen it before. Where did you get the swivel and does it replace the entire seat or just mounts underneath the existing one?

Good to see that you had some luck there. Mine looked very similar, I only managed to get a photo of the tail of mine, those big brooders are sure a handful. Did the other Brian have any luck? Those are some big slabs eh!

This is what I use http://www.amazon.com/Heater-F276172-1-Pou...e/dp/B000AMC5WO. So far I've had no issues fitting it to any 20lb bottle, my 20lb tanks are new from last year so unless they very very recently changed the design, there should be no problems. I use a lot of these little tanks in the hard water season and I've refilled probably 30 of the 1lb bottles. My collection of bottles grow every year as others give me the empties as I hate seeing them thrown out after one use, it's such a waste and I could never figure out where to recycle them. Takes one minute to refill a little bottle, it's awesome. Maybe I should start a service.....

I fish a lot of that part of the river as it's close to work. There's LOTS of good spots in that stretch and it's actually pretty easy to access all of those spots with a car except maybe the west bank just below Peigan bridge, that spot involves a bit more walking. When I was younger, I used to bike and fish all down the bow pathway, it's amazing how much water you can hit with a bike. Next time you should take a rod with you and give yourself 4 hours to bike home

I probably won't be back this year (unless I win the lottery!) but maybe next year I can time a trip during the good fly fishing times. Those rapids look awesome.

Nice shots, the water sure looks muddy compared to last year when I was there. Where is that, it looks very familiar. I was just in Helsinki a few months ago but didn't really get out on the hard water.

I have and use a Tenkara and it definitely has it's place in spots where there's next to no room to cast and you can sneak up on the fish. It's quite a different fishing style and is very suited for small streams (Cataract is a perfect example). Wife caught a nice sea-trout in Iceland with it and it was definitely an experience as she had to run up and downstream with the fish since there's only about 16 feet of line to play with. The really nice thing about it is that it is really getting back to the basics and purest form of fishing IMHO.

Not really related to fishing in Alberta but I'd like to see if we can get a few more supporters for Hugh's fish fight in Europe. If things continue the way they are, fishermen in the North Sea could experience what happened in the Martines with a collapse. If anyone wants to see the episodes of Fish Fish on Channel 4 in the UK, you can download episodes via torrent or if you are really interested pm me and I'll see what I can do. http://www.fishfight.net/

I had the same problem on my fairly new waders, they were leaking around the side of the knees and shin areas on both legs and I looked everywhere for holes but couldn't find it. I started by Aquasealing the area where it seemed to be leaking and it helped but there was still water getting into it. After about 3 attempts, I got fed up and Aquasealed BOTH the inside and outside seams from knees all the way down to the booties and it's mostly good now. Aquaseal is pretty cheap, time and frustration adds up to be pretty expensive.... The really annoying thing is that my cheapie old pair of 15 year old rubber waders from NZ had ZERO issues.

All season tires perform well for 12 months of the year where there is no snow. However here in Canada other than places along the coast, all season tires only perform well in Spring Summer and Fall. (hence 3 seasons). There are way too many people here that don't realize all season does not actually include our winters here. I used to believe that all seasons were fine for here until I experienced a real winter tire, it is really night and day in braking and control. People with 4x4s think they are invincible too but 4x4 only helps for pulling away and a little better control, does really nothing for braking unless you engine brake (I do have a 4x4 btw). If I had my way I would make it a law to have winter tires here, the amount of accidents that it could prevent would be staggering. I know what the next comment will be and the answer is, yes the tires still won't fix stupid....

Too bad we still get raped on the shipping charges up here. I love how it "costs" more to ship to Canada than to Alaska or Hawaii for some US retailers. It's been at almost par for quite some time now, until our economy tanks (ie oil price drops or people discover an alternative to the oil addiction) it'll probably hold for a while. I can't see any real long term recovery in the USA until people start learning that you can't live on debt forever.

Best ever bill. Eat your heart out Monopoly.

Champion lakes, it's about 45min from Calgary south from Bragg Creek down the gravel road from Allen Bill Pond. It's a short but steep hike up there but doable with a float tube. Ideally you should drag it over to the second pothole "lake" as it's better fishing there.

He was a managing director and founder of the Ascend Group (deals with Gap, Banana Republic) which is a consulting firm and worked at McKinsey & Co who deal with retail and oil/gas companies. Please don't jump to assumptions unless you have all the facts. And I do fully agree that education does not always equal intelligence but what it does show is some commitment in finishing things. I have a university degree and to be honest all it represents to me is that I was committed enough to finish something I started and gives a good background in how things "should" work in the world. If you combine it with real world experience then it's useful. I'm glad there's some new different blood in city hall. It should be a interesting next couple of years I hope.

I got in and out of our Bonavista voting school in like 5 minutes after work Yeah I'm glad too that Linda didn't make it back in. I think Parkland got hit hard with voters as there were rumors they ran very low on ballots.

X3 on the Panasonic. I have the original TS-1 and it's been awesome. I used it to do night video during the hard water season down in 15 feet of water, no issues whatsoever.

I have the TFO Professional 4wt and it's perfect on the Highwood but I'd say it's a bit slow and light for the Bow, not sure about a 5 weight in a TFO. I have a 5 weight Wright 5 piece that I picked up off someone in the forum and it's probably the perfect rod for both rivers if I could only have one. I also picked up a 8 piece 7 weight LL Bean that I just recently took on my travels and I'd have to to say that if it was a 5 weight it probably would be even better than the Wright. They have a 6 weight for $195 and their shipping is free. It packs down so small you could almost put it in your jacket pocket.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010...anic_go_organic One of the highlights of the story: "In one of the largest studies to analyze how agroecological practices affect productivity in the developing world, researchers at the University of Essex in England analyzed 286 projects in 57 countries. Among the 12.6 million farmers followed, who were transitioning toward sustainable agriculture, researchers found an average yield increase of 79 percent across a wide variety of crop types. Even the United Nations backs those claims. A 2008 U.N. Conference on Trade and Development report concluded that "organic agriculture can be more conducive to food security in Africa than most conventional production systems, and ... is more likely to be sustainable in the long term." I'd bet someone is going to follow up now with a scientific study which is completely opposite of this statement. It seems in this time and age there's always scientific proof of both sides of a story. I believe in local and organic farming because I've spent time working in both industries to make up my own mind. Not everyone has that ability to do so, so I hope that everyone can just keep a open mind. I fully understand the monoculture industrial farming reasoning when oil was dirt cheap and labour was not available, it's just that times change and unfortunately the only thing that is not growing is land.

As a general rule, most people never post all the skunked days or 1-2 fish days they have, otherwise the board would probably get flooded with posts . It's just like the reverse of the news, the ratio of bad news compared to good news is extremely high as a newspaper full of only good news probably wouldn't sell as well. If I'd posted all the bad days I had, I'd probably have 4x the number of posts....on second thought, probably closer to 95% of my posts......

Welcome to the Crossroads market and the CFM That's one of the reasons why I dislike Crossroads, there are actual farmers at both markets but I find that there are also a lot of vendors selling the same crap as in the supermarket. It's frustrating to try and sort out the legitimate farmers from the commercial vendors, hence why Kingsland market started up. Of all the markets I've been to so far Kingsland, Hillhurst and Millarville have been the most authentic. You really have to ask a lot of tricky questions sometimes to sort out the real farmers from the fakes. I can't wait till next year, gonna tear out the entire backyard of all the useless grass and put in stuff thats edible.