birchy

Only in redneck Alberta can someone get away with that! In an "offical government publication" too!

Holy crap!! No seriously.. maybe that pigeon crapped on the pelican not too long before that...

For moving water.. I enjoyed the Scientific Anglers series with Doug Swisher (Rick Hafele is in one of them talking about some basic entomology as well): http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_U...VDs_Videos/DVD/

How bout some updated pics of those up and comer fly anglers!! Here's Noah @ 6 months: http://picasaweb.google.com/birchy.family/6Months

That's what they do in the Timmy's in my building (and most all I've been too for that matter) actually. 1 person takes the order, a different person pours the coffee, and a third person gets the food if needed.

Awesome job Clive!! How'd that compare to some of the bigger pike you've caught on the fly??

What's the current issue? Are we up to Volume 5 Issue 2 yet? Last one I got was Volume 4 Issue 4.

CDock and I have been tossing around the idea of taking a summer trip down to the Madison one of these years. Today it popped into my head that maybe we can incorporate one of our summer camping trips with our family's. Go down and camp in Montana and the girls maybe can do a spa day or something while we're out fishing. Anyone have any experience with, or know of any good campgrounds around the Madison? I stumbled across this site: http://www.moonlightbasin.com/explore/summ...ry_camping.html I don't see any prices listed though and that usually means you have to take out a loan to pay for it..! Besides.. it really isn't 'camping' anyways!

Here's the article rickr is referring to: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/be...archTerm=coffee I had to do a search rick.. i'm one of those 'snopes guys' like yourself.

Amen. Awesome pics rusty. Thanks for sharing!

Yep, that one's bad! I was meeting up with MTB at Hullswood one morning and was about 20 minutes early so decided to drive thru there for a coffee.. yep, 10 minutes late by the time I got there!

I see some good seams in there for sure..

Welcome to the board man!! There's an abundance of information on here that fly anglers of all experience levels can benefit from!

It's unfortunate that's the response you got.. but I can't help but wonder how your email was written bigbadbrown? Did you politely make some suggestions as a fellow angler, or did you sort of point fingers? I find it strange that he made they make those comments about 'flyfisherman'.. but at the same time on his website he talks about fly fishing as an art, mentioned Lefty Kreh and Bob Clouser, and suggests some books and stuff. I'm sure this guy has the best intentions like the rest of us do. It seems to me like half the time he's telling his buddy Todd "okay, let's get that fish back in the water now" while Todd insists on holding it up to the camera for another 10, 15, seconds.. sometimes more. I know I've done it before! And I really didn't know any better. Heck.. one night I was out with Toolman and MTB and my buddy CDock.. caught a beauty rainbow.. but I had a "Hawgstoppah hookset" apparently and was fighting to get the stupid thing out. Meanwhile Toolman is saying "okay Ryan.. give him a breath.. give him a breath" ... "Ryan, give him a breath!" .. I swear he said it like 5 times before I was like.. "OH.. yeh, I should put him back in the water for a bit." I was starting to worry that I forgot to debarb my hook.. i'm thinking "great, i'm out for the first time with Greg and Brett and I hooked a gorgeous rainbow with a barbed hook! Great!" When I finally got it out I did check, and thankfully it was de-barbed. Anyways.. got a bit off topic there but i'm wondering if a message along the lines of "from a fellow angler to another.. I know you have the best intentions, but I think your buddy Todd might need a bit more encouragment to try and keep those trout in the water as much as possible.. I know, because I didn't know any better when I started until people mentioned it to me. I'm worried that other people who don't know any better might be watching these videos and learning that it's okay to hold fish out of the water for that long (even though you're saying 'okay, get him back in the water now')" or something like that?

The sad part is throwing down and absolutely stomping these idiots wouldn't prove anything.. as satisfying as it would be.

Yeah.. the cats stole my hair stacker one night. I found one piece but have yet to find the other...

*sigh*

Just as a reminder.. this was the first: http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?showtopic=2330

Okay.. at some point during the tie I managed to break off one of the tail biots.. and I forgot to put the hackle fibers in! Man.. I get distracted easily!!

How do I know what size biots to pull off for the tail and wings?

Ditto.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/business...xprod=permalink hmmmm the most telling sentence in this article... "I quickly confessed that when it came to computers, I fell into that vast gray area between being a moron and a complete idiot" Then, later in the article, it suggests that the best fit for this guy would be a Mac...

Coming from someone who has zero experienced pulling trailers... but who is somewhat mechanical and listens to what others say. Diesel is the way to go for pulling stuff because of their crazy amount of torque. AND the new diesel's can be "chipped" to get you even more horsepower/fuel economy.. all you have to do is flip a switch apparently..