jonny5

I feel your pain... I did something similar, but the blast was in the face. My fishing partners response : "Guess you're not going to fish that hole on your side then?.... Sweet fish on!" Anyways, at least you know it works

Its 75 to 95 cents a liter in kansas, oklahoma and texas... I can't figure out why its so much cheaper here, since the supply is all the same. also a flight from dallas to seattle cost 300$. To go to Vancouver airport is 600$ most times. Not sure why. That price difference covers the cost of a rental car for a week or 2...

Ticks are nasty critters. We got lots of them in oklahoma (as I found out this summer mountain biking ), and they carry rocky mountain spotted fever here. Easily prevented with some bug spray though...

Howdy Firefrog, I was at a neuroimmunology conference the other month and I remember a few things discussed about lyme. One is that western blotting is very unreliable for diagnosis. If you can find someone to do a PCR test, I can tell you that this is VERY specific and sensitive, but prone to false positives. Someone mentioned xenodiagnostic lyme testing which they basically use a tick (a clean medical tick I am guessing) and attach it to you and allow it to feed. Somehow, the borrelia is VERY good at finding its way back to the tick and then the tick can be examined for the bacteria. Sounds ok if you don't mind getting bitten again. I don't know who is doing these tests in Canada. My main question is why your doc didn't just put you on doxycycline just in case?

Congrats on the successful build. I really like how it fits in a tiny space in the garage!

No problem with raw fish of any sort. Eat lots.

Wow!

Hi, my name is Jonny5, and I am a redneck. Don't forget jug lines.... And recently legalized in texas: noodling. I was at the noodling tournament this year in pauls valley Ok, and I will admit, it was REALLY effing fun!

Theres only one solution. Start fishing for otters.

Yeah, banger screwed in, pin in locked position. They definitely work, one of my buddies used one on a bear across the river from us that was running towards a couple of people just around a bend. they didn't even know what happened cause they couldn't see the bear, but it turned and ran the opposite direction, and I bet you they were pretty pissed that we shot a bear banger at them

This reminds me of the "kids in the hall" chicken lady skit. And that aint a good thing

TOO MANY FLATS? If your interested in avoiding flats you can install TUFFY's inside your tire. They are just a liner between your tire and tube.If there not at mec try campione. I put them on my wifes race bike so she doesn't have to change out tires mid race (which would significantly increase her race time )

Another vote for panniers... Also if you don't already have em, get fenders, it will make it a cleaner ride on those slushy days. And a blinky light as a courtesy to the other people on the bow river path when there is no overhead lights to see you coming (actually everyone should have one I think, even dogs).

Good on you for riding, its way more fun than driving to work and you will be in great shape in no time if you stick with it! You can ride every day of the year also, you would be surprised how easy it is down to -20... below that, not so easy but still doable. Now that I am living in oklahoma city, with little or no safe bike routes, I sure do miss the bow river path. And like you said, you will always know of a few fishy spots and river conditions. Cheers, Jon

Simms travel waders have not a drop of neoprene. Alergic to latex or neoprene?

Now that I live in the land of "shootin stuff" I have heard a few reports of people hunting hogs with air rifles... Apparently gamo makes something in 25 cal that packs quite a punch. But then again, I doubt you can get that in Canada without all the usual permits and such.

I am living nearish to mexico now, and lots of regular 'merican people go to mexico to get dental done.

Yeah, but the question still remains, who got the biggest fish?

You must be fishing on the same days as me Seems like it was always a lot better yesterday... J5

I seem to remember this guy was blowing sh!t up a while ago... Again, not surpising if he was up to it again. Didn't one of his kids shoot someone with a .22 also? Or maybe I am all mixed up. (as usual)

Elizabeth Parker hut this past week...

You could try searching on PUBMED (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) using keywords such as "alberta and salvelinus". That got 72 hits, but I couldn't figure out how to send the link. Depends what you are looking for though... there will definately be some ecology in there, but most will be slanted towards pharmacology, physiology and toxicology. Or you might have luck using another index like "web of science" but I have no experience with that one. PS. if you find a paper on there that interests you and you can't access it let me know, and I will try to get it for you if you want.

WARNING: you will probably think this is kind of dumb, but... my idea that I have never had time or rods to test this on, would be a rod designed for fishing at low temperatures that applies a small current through the guides to prevent icing. I wouldn't buy one though as I don't fish much in the winter.

Heres a question for you though... is it illegal to over harvest from a private pond, or is it a set of private rules that members are requested to follow? Would the COs be called for a situation like that?

Exellent photos and story! Brings back some memories as I drove part way down baja in 1999... I also saw the whale skeleton in El Pabellon!