birchy

Frickin Pronger! What a piece of crap hockey player.. Jonas Hiller man.. holy smokes!

Congrats Christine Nesbitt!!

Oh if only we could all afford Loop Opti's eh? ....

Hey all, My contract ended this past Friday. Looking for work again.. same as last time.. senior desktop support or junior systems admistration. Please send me an email if you have any leads. - birch.ryan@gmail.com Thanks!

Meh.. I get skunked alot! Just like to get out.. I have to say.. I've been looking at the Hyde Power Drifters alot the last few days...

Brutal!! Sorry to hear this Jay. Hope you get healed up soon!! B@stards man!! I hate people.

Definitely spots that are similar to the Bow.. the runs that we fished were comparable for sure. A bit deeper though.. I was running a ~14-15 foot leader with 3 split shot and was still having a hard time ticking the bottom. It would surprise me at all if there are spots that are 50-100 feet deep though.. the Columbia is massive.

So yeah.. that was pretty awesome!! Was overcast with light showers all afternoon.. pretty cold, only like 3C. Didn't manage to hook into any fish myself, but Bruce caught a couple. We started in Trail and went up to Genelle and back. Went to fish this one seam and there was a guy already there.. Bruce says "let's go see who this is".. walk up and it's Don Freschi from that Sportfishing on the Fly TV show. So we fished with him for a little while too. He caught 2 I think while we were there.. kind of intimidating fishing a run between a guide and a dude with his own flyfishing show! HA! All and all it was a good day. Still haven't caught a fish this weekend, but this time of year on the Columbia is pretty tough I'm told! I'm just happy I've gotten out! It's been a few months for me before this weekend.

Posted a message on FlyBC about a last minute trip to Castlegar and fishing the Columbia.. sent an email to a local guide and he replied and said he's going out this afternoon if I wanted to join him.. Emailed back and forth a few times.. and apparently we're going in his jetboat. Sweet! Sure beats walking and wading on a river that's like 2-3 times as big as the Bow!! I'll post back later and let you fine folks know how it goes...

bumpage

http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?...896&hl=mice

That's insane! Was talking to esleech at Wholesale a bit ago and he was telling me they got some crazy bite pressure too! Said he's broken more than a few hooks off after the burb has bitten down on it and while trying to pry it out with pliers! The moral of the story was.. "I wouldn't put your fingers anywhere near their mouth!"

Sweet! I have no idea.. I haven't heard anything. I bugged Jennifer pretty good at the show, but she stuck to her guns and told me I had to wait until the issue came out. I love my "man bag".. it got stolen in Barcelona and I had to get another one when I got back! ha!

Apparently he was asking for the league maximum of $11.2 million per year.

Holy crap we won a game!!

The Flames made a trade?!

Au contraire!

I'm going to take a guess and say Labrador..

YAAYYY!!! One of us is going to win tomorrow!

Blaming a whole.. for just one person.. Ummmm???

One of my Apple nut hugger friends sent me this today.. interesting: http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/ The comments are amusing as well.

No more rhyming, now I mean it!

Holy crap Kyle!! Gorgeous fish! ... And the rest of you too ... :thumbsup:

One saggy boob says to the other saggy boob... "if we don't get some support soon people are going to think we're nuts!"