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Not so much a hoax. Maybe a mistake. We've all been there(some longer ago than others). Done something really stupid and then run and hid, fearing the repercussions. I suspect jr released the balloon by accident...

Boy was found...in the attic. Never went up with the balloon...

Long-range says 18 next Saturday...

And you were looking for what when you found this??

Which he may not do if he weren't tying flies... Yeah...great system... absolutley horrible if you ask me...

Yes...$9.98 to be exact. I relieved them of a few dozen about a week ago...

Bingo. Teaching kids to respect elders, authority, parents etc is not something you start when they're 16. I've got twin 18 year-old boys. They know respect and have known it since they were old enough to grasp the concept. Nothing else was acceptable. My boys are both 6 ft now. Their mother is 5 ft. She says "jump" and they still say "how high". Until they no longer live under my roof, nothing else will be acceptable. They bought in to that concept long ago...

Perhaps she is making "good money" in her opinion. It certainly is good when compared to the alternative of no money. If she were making the kind of money you feel she should make, is it possible someone more hungry and more desperate may cause her harm just to get her job? I know this was brought forth when the Nike situation in the Orient was first discussed many years ago. This needs to be kept in perspective. There are not the social service networks to fall back on in some countries like we have here. If a job pays enough to keep a family fed and sheltered wherever that family lives, life is good for that family, regardless of what that job pays...

You sure about that? The website, for one, is defunct. I know it's on the back of the maps but I wonder if there's a reason SilverDoctor is looking for one here...

Hah...knew it would pop up. I'm sitting in the red Versa. Happened to be sitting there as the camera car drove around the cul-de-sac... http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=...,339.51,,1,7.27

I have this map sitting on my desk...was part of a bunch of fly fishing stuff I just acquired. Never had one before. Can't see I'll need one any time soon...

Is it worth repairing? I know money doesn't grow on trees but I believe I paid about $75 when I bought that reel for my wife a year ago. Might just be simpler and easier and perhaps not much more expensive to buy another? Spare spools are something like $35 or $40 and you would have yourself a spare spool so all would not be lost with the old reel. Just my 2 cents...

Have you had a chance to listen to Steve Earl's new album, "Townes"? Fabulous piece of work...

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I can't see any white stripes on the leading edges of the lower fins so I'm inclined to say not a Bull Trout. Hard to say with any degree of certainty though. Not a lot of fish get that big (tough to tell scale in the photo too) though. The tail looks forked which would make one lean towards a Lake Trout if it's actually of the Trout/Char families. Could also be a Burbot, I suppose, although the nose seems too pointed. The eyes look to be too far horizontal to be a trout. Go back and get a better picture...

Nose is too pointed. I'll go with Whitefish as well. Maybe a Sucker?

Don't know what the airtime/data packages are like but I suspect, like anything else in this world, it isn't going to be cheap. There is a reason they can GIVE the stick away...

I have no intention of participating in a b1tch session so the chances of me getting nailed for slander are somewhere between slim and none. I was merely pointing out, as others have, that your statement was so far the other way that it was a "pot calling the kettle black" moment...

Hmmm...seems the right to free speech might be in jeopardy here. Did it hit a little close to home perhaps? While I admit saying xyz store "sucks" is a pretty general statement, I should think we have the right to express our displeasure if we've had a bad experience somewhere. In fact, I think if you read this entire thread, you may find that exact thing. Is this forum not an extension of the whole "word of mouth" system we all rely on so heavily? Why would we keep a negative experience to ourselves then? If this were the case, should we not keep all our opinions to ourselves? Perhaps the "young man" could edit his statement to explain why he feels this way but I don't think there is anything wrong with expressing one's opinion, positive or negative. To quote a long-forgotten songwriter... "One looked like a can full of worms, the other looked like malaria germs" . Sort of what you might be opening up....

Picked up an Okuma Helios earlier this summer. Mighty nice reel for the price...

My net is 18" from tip to tip. 2 or 3 inches is a whole lot easier to guesstimate than 20 or 21... edit....Is anything under 18" worth measuring anyway?

I'm all for supporting the local stores and do it as often as possible but pure economics comes into play sometimes. $9 for a pair of neoprene socks at MEC says I don't look for them anywhere else...

My head hurt just reading that post...

That's only 45 by my count. Do they have different maths in Scotland?

That there is the true meaning of "worm dunker"....