BadSal

Does "LDR" mean Long Distance Relationship? And, do people say LDR when they hook a fish but it get unhooked before you get a chance to get it close enough to have any kind of relationship with it at all? Cheers,

If cost doesn't matter, which is the best hook brand name to use to tie flies, and why?

I saw a large california gull eating a 16" fish... not sure if it was already dead though, i suspect it was. I don't think waterfowl scare fish. However, other birds definitely do. For example: eagles, ospreys, herons, pelicans. However, herons are very good an not getting noticed. Btw, there is a very large heronry just across the boat ramp at policemans with at least a dozen "live" nests. An interesting story was the time last summer I was fishing fallen timber. I had snuck up on nice brown sipping PMD's, just as I was preparing to make my first cast it all went to hell. I was midstream just outside of a beaver hole, and out came the beaver. To mine and the beaver's surprise he surfaced about 4 feet from me and WHACK!!! He did the tail think and spooked the brown that was about 5 meters upstream. The water was clear enough I saw him bolt to god knows where. That being said, I spend all last summer fishing next to a beaver's house on the bow river. He would swim right past me within 2 meters and not pay any mind, and the fish didn't pay any mind either. Of course, this beaver never did a tail whack.

Actually, I thought it would have been about 2million.

I saw some guys kayaking of the river right at the rock pile nearest to deerfoot yesterday evening. There was about eight of them all suited up but only one or two kayaks. I think they were taking turns doing the rapid. Wether they were safety experts from the fire department or members of the public, I don't know. Wether or not drunkard rafters will ruin the river, I suspect that if they do begin to litter and abuse alcohol professional fishing guides will lobby the local authorities to more strictly enforce safety and public nuissance issues. Remember that bow river fishing brings in a lot of money in revenue to this city, and rafting drunkards do not. Also, the increase in length of navigable water within the city might warrant the addition of resources to the patrol team (one or two more patrol boats). Does anyone have an idea just HOW MUCH revenue guided fishing on the bow river generates ???

I prefer to tie on Daiichi.