birchy

Yeeeah boy.

Classic. I still have a score to settle with a couple unknown fish on the Bow. Now (starting my 4th year now) if I could only remember how I used to hook them so often in my 1st season fly fishing...

I have a Danvise too.. only used it once. Send me a PM if you're interested and we can work out a deal.

I got myself a Viking (canadian company) breathable waterproof jacket at Marks Work Wearhouse last year for $110 after tax. I love it. I also love that it cost me about 1/3 of what the brand name stuff would've cost me.

Good question. There was a thread about this last season.. I'll see if I can find it. One of the board members was approached by a pretty cranky C.O. that insisted they needed to provide their WIN as well as their license. Quite a few people on here disagree, myself included. *edit* Here it is: http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?...;win+card\

Very good point as well Brian. Since I've gotten a Blackberry with GPS.. I've been turning it on while on road trips just to see. Surprising to see the variance in the speedometer in some of the different vehicles I've driven!

Whaaat?!

Agreed!

I'll be the first "jack@ss" to say it.. How about people just NOT speed? Don't know about you, but I have a wife and a 1.5 year old in my vehicle.. I love both very much..

City section is starting to open up as well.. in recent days there's been quite a bit of water starting to flow on top of the ice.

Three. Nymphs Dries Streamers

You're an @ss Bob.

Blind fishing with dries.. most of the time when a trout rises to my fly and I'm not expecting it.. it scares me. Literally.. I jump like someone just popped out from behind a door in the dark or something. Miss the hookset half the time because of it! LOL

Just couldn't 'let it go' eh? Beauty fish Islandguy..

Joke #1 - heard it before in relation to golf.. love it. Joke #2 - My gawd..

Only for the big 17" one it looks like..

Highly doubt that.. But my daddy died when I was 15, so I guess we'll never know!

Gorgeous colors on that brownie!! The rainbow ain't no slouch either.

At my work, we purchase ~350 laptops every summer. There's 600 employees in our office, and everyone gets a new laptop every 2 years. Half the office one year, the other half the next. We give our requirements (performance, size, weight, price) etc. to the main vendors, and then they bring their offerings to the table. The last number of years they've been flipping back and forth between HP and Dell. Every year we push them to buy Lenovo's, and every year they ignore us. They're quite a bit more pricey than the other vendors because of the higher quality of their product. Toshiba never wins, so I think last year they didn't even bother showing up. Whether or not that has anything to do with the quality, I can't say for sure. It could very well be that their warranty (or something else) isn't up to par. Seems like others have lots of good things to say about them, so I'll trust their word. Dell and HP both make good products. Brad's comment above about Dell products being the #1 returned doesn't surprise me much.. they're "economy" laptops do seem to be made with cheaper components (I've heard that too Brad).. hence the low price. I've noticed a huge difference in quality so far with my XPS system, versus the "Latitudes" we get at my work. As others have said, what you're planning on using it for does matter alot. Another big factor is how much you're going to be physically moving it around. If it's just going to be sitting on your desk, you MAY be able to get away with lower quality stuff.. but if you're going to be taking it with you everywhere, you're going to want to look at something a bit more robust. As far as support goes, both HP and Dell customer service are very easy to deal with. Lenovo seems to be good so far too (we did manage to get some Lenovo ultra-lites this year because both Dell and HP's ultra-lites couldn't run Vista). Can't speak for Acer's support, never dealt with them. Hydropsyche - I support servers as well.. comparing them to laptops is apples and oranges. No offense intended. You are correct though.. HP servers are heads and shoulders above Dells.. If you want a "road warror" laptop, get the IBM Lenovo.. built like a tank. They have a cool piece of technology built in that detects movement of the laptop, as soon as you pick up the laptop, or move it in any way, it automatically parks the harddrive heads to avoid damage. Very cool feature. I think in the end, it's the same as most things. All the "mainstream" vendor's products will be pretty comparable. Working out the little details that you're personally looking for will make the difference.

Was going through some old pics today and found this one.. I almost forgot about it!!

Wow! That's hard to believe..

Yeehaw! Crowsnest this weekend anyone?? (please don't call my bluff because there's very little chance I can actually go)

Sorry to hear that Gary. All the best to you and your family.

Ghey!

There was a thread and this a week or so back that was closed by the mods in order to avoid too much speculation. But basically from what some have said, they have some stuff going on in their personal life right now and are closed temporarily. I believe the mods said they will post an update once they know for sure what's going on.