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I was never arguing about what caused there population to increase. what am saying is we've conditioned and changed there whole behaviour by allowing them free range on our cities and towns. I don't know if any of you guys have ever targeted and hunted magpies but when i was younger we never had a problem finding them, but you had to go out of town to do it . They where smart enough to stay away from humans when people could be trusted to use a little common sense. . Back in the day if you could get within 100 feet of a magpie to get a shot you where being dam sneaky. Now days a magpie will sit in a tree 20 feet above you and look down at you and taunt you because they have no fear of us anymore.If its on the ground that's a different story but there very smart and learn quickly. Anyways can I tell you a funny story. I have a bichon frise and if I say crow he will run to the back door and chase any crow out of the yard. Magpies are smart enough to just sit in a tree above him and taunt him, So I see a crow on the lawn and sick my little dog on him well all be damned if the crow didn't have something wrong with its wing and couldn't fly . well the dog gets about 6 feet from the crow and stops and barks like crazy cause hes never seen one that hasn't flown away right away..Anyways the wife runs out with the broom and is trying to keep to two apart and open the back gate to shoo the crow out of the yard. Took her about 5 minutes . I was in the kitchen rolling on the floor laughing it was so funny to watch lol

Bull they simply had the fear of humans breed out of them over the last 30 years of been protected . We had lots of garbage back in the day don t kid yourself. people used to set there garbage out and leave it out all week and you might get the odd cat going in it . now days you put it out 15 minutes before the garbage truck gets there and pray the crows don't rip it to shreds before you get to work.

Sorry bro i don't buy it one bit. The urban environment is no different than it was 50 years ago. Except now pregnant women get shot and killed in the middle of our streets but ya lets protect the crows and magpies lol I sure didn't make a law protecting them and am pretty sure you didn't either. The fault lies on the shoulders of the government. Truth is they simply have nothing to fear from humans anymore and they know it. I just ordered 2 solar powered Owls that have motion sensors to make them hoot will see if that helps I heard it does. Mind you it will probably scare the songbirds away too. Just wanted to add that they will get accustom to the owls very qwickly because they are very smart birds so i will have to move them every few days

You must not be as old as me than because we use to hunt and trap them on the family farm then cut there feet off to send in for a bounty.when i was a kid. But i grow up in small town alberta and you never seen crows or magpies in town except at the local dump. You couldn't get within a 100 feet of a magpie back then, they knew humans where dangerous and keep there distance. they certainly didn't set up shop in our back yards like they do now.

Guys I would just like to say sorry for my comments in the Fort Mac thread, I was a little pissed off because ive always been a Hard working honest person.. Any how first time ive been without work for a long time so i files for UI benefits for the first time in my life at the age of 52. So I've been on it for about 3 months and they cut me off for not looking for work about a month ago even though me and my boss are struggling to find work for his shop and ive managed to work about half the days I've claimed for been contract labour for my boss. Am sorry I just didn't like been treated like i was some kind of scam artist and getting every delaying tactic they could throw at me, finally after a month and 5 phone calls the last one I waited 2 hours and finally got though only to be put on hold again and than hung up on before I could even talk to them. I lost it am sorry.

Just wondering is anyone else sick of crows and magpies. I've got a beautiful back yard , It's got a big pond and waterfall with lots of grass and rock work. I have about 10 bird feeders out there too. But for the life of me alls that comes to my yard is crows and magpies its sad no little songbirds of any kind except pieces of them left all over my waterfall rocks and am sick of it. Garbage day is really nice with a murder of about 40 crows sitting up shop across the close from us. Anybody know anything that will keep them away because am about ready to stick the barrel of my 7MM out my window even though I live in the middle of suburbia. How stupid are these people that run our government anyways I remember as a kid you would never see crows or magpies in towns because they knew to stay away from people. we used to hunt them for a bounty actually. Guess its time to start using the old drilling rig trick of putting caustic inside of something and letting them eat it

Never touch alcohol frickin hate it but you could send me a gallon of vodka if you like.

Personally after the way the government has treated me in the last month.; i could give two shits about fort mac or any other city in this *hit hole. its great entertainment I cant wait for alberta's next disaster. all have another good laugh when it happens

How about posting your biggest Brown.

Am running a 55 pound trust traxxis with a 42 inch shaft length on my Hyde XL . It works awesome for lake fishing.

Never had a problem tying one with my fingers but that's just to fast to not try.

well think about it they've turned 40 dollar parts into 500 dollar parts over the last 20 years i guess people would steal them takes what 20 seconds to take a tailgate off a truck. 500 bucks to replace my driver side mirror. fricken ridiculous.

One thing I would like to add is if you apply your line dressing on your kitchen lino floor as i do by pulling the line back and forth in a cloth in my hand . well just be careful to wipe up the floor. Dam near broke my back walking over the spot it was so slick lol.

That's great advice Doc I clean all my lines several times a season . Clean line performs so much better than a dirty line.

Pinned in the river by a couple vicious dogs lol. Nothing a couple well place plum sized rocks wouldn't fix real fast

Why is it that this guy and his two dogs comes up every year at this time. but you don't hear a word about it at any other time of year. Sounds like a wife's tale to me. Don't usually like to fish for post spawn fish. I've been in a foul mood since Alberta let my trout lakes die, think I will head up there and rip a few lips off.

How much time in jail would i get if i just walk down there and shoot his dogs I need a vacation.

I've caught quite a few 8 to 10 pound browns on the Red Deer river using fairly large steamers.

Long time ago my ex-wife was accusing me of not going fishing because I never bring any fish home lol. So i decided to bring her a brown out of the south fork of Prairie Creek. Cleaned it and found two mice in its stomach.

Doc, that's a work of art.

Wicked bro, thanks for sharing those.

Doc I've been looking your flies over and am pretty sure they wont catch any fish. I mean you can send me some and all try them but am pretty sure they wont work. All kidding aside those are just perfect little fanwing coachman's.

I would think all of them do.. But i buy mine from Fish Tales Fly Shop.

Wow Gary its sure been a pleasure watching you progress from small winged wets to these magnificent salmon flies. I've been tying for quite awhile and i still just tie what I need when I need it Wouldn't mind buying a few of your ties just to mount on some driftwood and put it on my tying desk for inspiration.

Dam nice fish Jay gunna have to say 29 inch. Same as the one in my aviator of a Red Deer River brown.