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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.
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Have you looked in to a torched on roof? Not sure if you guys do that out West, bu it is the standard roofing finish on the low pitch in St. john's. It basicall a two layer roof of bitcumen/Asphalt sticky on one side that you heat up with tiger torchs and it sticks to your roof. Make sure you have a roofer with insurance as it wouldn't be the first time a house's roof has been caught fire by a roofer.
The average old house around here are tall with small footprints (30X30 or smaller), Friend of mine just had his house torched on roof replaced for under 3k.
Shingles are not water proof they are water sheding and not recommended on roof with less than a 4 on 12 pitch. They use to make low slope shingles but as far as I know they don't anymore.
Best of luck
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).
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When using a motor on a toon you set it up to pull you not push.This way you steer with your flippers or you just let the oars hang in the water.This makes it easier to troll also.
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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
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I bought one of those gadgets, but could never get it to work. Something to do with the new valves on the newer big tanks. To fill the little bottle, the unit needs to be inverted - the big tank on top, upside down. doing so has the effect of closing the valve mechanism of the big tank. The old tanks without the auto safety overfill device still work tho.
If anyone has an easy work around for the new tanks, let me know.
Thanks.
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.....
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Now, I will readily admit I haven't really fished much at all above the dog park, so I don't know how it fishes. It would however shock me if there was not lots of good fishing between the park and the weir because there sure seems to be a lot of pretty water. Unless there was a bridge or someplace where where people could easily park, then there would be people. And when I did see fishermen, they were generally in groups. I think I only saw one or two guys fishing where no one else was around, though there were many, many opportunities. And I did see 3 guys fishing Southland with a bunch of dogs around. On the off leash side, which I always find funny.
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
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Thanks, Will. I remember, because we exchanged some e-mails when you were here last year. The color varies a bit, these were taken at run-off time. These are all different rapids in Helsinki (most of them are from those places I mentioned to you).
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks Chris!
That might be my next move, but I would be more interested in sealing from the source (but that might be more of a headache then it's worth).
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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.
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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....
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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.
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Best ever bill. Eat your heart out Monopoly.
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I'm almost 100% sure I left my sunglasses on the back of my pickup and drove off so most likely they are at the parking lot or along the road to the parking at the Old Refinery Park (north of Lynnwood). They are Smith Bazooka black. Unfortunately they don't make them anymore so I'm pretty sad to have lost them as I have many pairs of lenses.
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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.
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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.
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Yahooo....Linda is not our Alderman :-)
Anyone know what the actual percentage of voters turned up this year?
Curious. The lines were outrageous. I think to be employeed at the polling station you needed to be over 65 and have forgotten to bring your bifocals.
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.
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Are you looking for a conventional camera or a tough camera?
If you are looking at rugged camera I would look at the Panasonic Lumix DMCTS2A. I was looking at one in Vistek today to replace my Fuji XP10 which is okay, but is really lacking in the picture quality for indoor shots.
What I like about the Panny is the build quality, good optics, button layout is well thought out and it shoots 1080p video, even underwater.
Andrew
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.
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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.
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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.
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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......
Bow Hunting For Elk
in General Chat - Not Fishing Related (NFR)
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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