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Thanks Rick!! If you happen to run into 2 Luchadore masked sasquatch on the scouting trip, give us beers!! (not cheerleader beer please!!)

$5.00 on #5 just to fight her bladder infection...

Trip #3 $300.00

"Conveyor belt" LOL 'strue....

One of my families favorite places to be. Glad you had a good time. The surf is always unpredictable there but the people more than make up for it. If you are still hungry, I have a few crickets left I will share.

I have always bought from icky for my standard trout flies. Great service and like Rick said, local business that supports local causes. Thenfliesmhave held up well for me. I. Am waiting on a shipment from reelflies for a saltwater trip as they had a larger selection of what I was after. I. Will know soon how the quality is.

I have one extra ticket to IF4 tonight (Dec 15/11), if you want it, it is yours. The show is at the Globe theater at 7:00. I will be down there around 6:30. you can PM me for my number if you are interested. Cheers Dan

I will take the seat in the jeep and offer up a set of professional grade Pizza cook pans and serving trays to go with them. (NEW, need seasoning. I can help with that)

Those people are the Canadian taxpayers. I don't know art but i didn't like that.

Sylvan lake does one on the First of January I believe.

With little planning and lots of anticipation I had one of the best fishing weekends on September 15-18. I had spent the prior 3 months anxiously waiting for the 15th to arrive and Rick to pick Wes and I up for the trip to Panorama and some Cutthroat fishing, When I got the news that Rick had to bowl that night so we couldn’t leave until 9:30 I knew I would chew my arm off waiting so the decision was made to meet him out there. And we left Calgary at 8:00 Driving up to Panorama in the dark, we checked in and got the keys, found the condo and sat down to have a drink and await our host. Rick must drive faster than Wes does because he rolled in only 30 minutes behind us. The condo is great, 2 bedroom 2 bath with a mountain view to kill for. Our only complaint was that there is only one ice tray so the last scotch had to be neat. We got up the next morning at the stroke of 6:00, got our licenses squared away and hit the road for the high country after stopping for coffee and sandwiches. An hour and a half and 60+km of logging roads later we geared up and hit the river. The morning started off slow, lots of fish in the deep pools but they weren’t moving for anything we threw at them. A couple of hours later and several pools upstream we got them figured out and we all had fish to hand. The afternoon continued on with the fishing getting better the further upstream we worked with a few 16”+ fish landed. One pool held 5-6 big cutts and a Bull, they had absolutely no fear of us, even when I shoved a camera underwater 3’ from them for a couple of minutes. They kept right on feeding. Wes and Rick both cast to them for far too long before Rick sold one on taking his offering. This set the other s off chasing him all over the pool even during the landing. The Bull trout had “other” things on its mind and kept on its upstream way. After Rick moved on Wes picked off the biggest fish of the trip, It looks smaller in his catcher mitts… After a long day fishing the ride back to Panorama was a little on the quiet side. I think we were all thankful for Ben’s Birthday Cds for his dad. Dinner and bed followed in short order after getting back to the condo. Day 2 saw us one valley over but just as far back for the morning, in water that none of us had ever been to before. Parked and geared up in overcast skies. This water was a little more like home not so much freestone pebbles as the day before. More fish but a little smaller. We had all had our fill of 10”-14” fish by 1:00 so back over to the main stream for the afternoon. We started at the spot we stopped at the day before and fished up about a kilometer or so until the river was too choked off to get a cast off and the Bull trout redds got a little too frequent for us to be comfortable fishing around and called it a day but not before a few more good fish came to hand. After 2 days of hard fishing and a 1 ½ hour drive each way to the water for a half days fishing we decided to drive back to Calgary and hit the Bow for a few hours as Wes and I have had little to no experience on our home waters. Rick took us to one of his spots (I can’t remember where exactly ). I washed several hooks while Rick landed a couple of fish, he said it was slow but that is better than I have done ever. By 3:00 Wes and I decided that our wives would probably like to see us at some point during the weekend so we called it and left Rick to his run. This trip far exceeded my hopes, I got to see some beautiful new water and catch some gorgeous fish (The pictures do NOT do justice to the area or fish we saw). Our learning curve shallowed out a lot and the company was second to none. We are already looking forward to next years auction, I hope whoever else wants this item has deep pockets because I will be bidding against them! Thanks Rick for all of the work you did this year for streamwatch and babysitting a couple of noobs. Dan and Wes. (We really do need to take a better photographer with us next time)

Valentina from Mexico. I put that S%#T on everything! Buffalo brand Chipotle sauce. Haven't seen it in years but used to love it.

That is not a bad problem to have... If you could find a pool (or 6) with 20-24" cutts stacked like cordwood and that have never seen a fly before. That would be great. Preferably not more than 10' from the bars patio.

Yes please. All kinds of goodness in that report.

3'-4' of snow should keep the couch burning and car flipping to a minimum on the long weekend. So we've got that going for us.

If you need another for the trip.... Just sayin

Congrats BBT... Next year... unless Rick wants to make it 2 weeks in September...

SOLD!!!

#1 $350.00 Cheers Dan

Andrew. What is the Autocad you need done. I can probably get it done for you. Dan.

Bushell?

Hope it was a good one Greg!

I am heading to Bella Coola the first week of October to fish and have never cast a spey rod before. I need to gear up and figure out some basic casting by then. Anybody willing to show a guy the ropes and or suggest some video or an instructor? or am I right out to lunch thinking that I can pick it up in the next couple of weeks with only 4-5 hours a week to practice. Help!!>>...??? Dan.

Looks like a good trip. Congraulations on the Golds.

RV. There is a great swim lagoon right there and for the money it is hard to beat.