lonefisher

Alphonse Delucci from Lone Fisher and Ralphie Crackhead from my real name

LMAO RKNB's you read my mind but I wasn't going to say it LOL

WOW what an a$$h0le....... I am really glad to see them issue a fine of that size...... $4500 is a pretty good deterent. But the big question is how did this prick get off the lake, outta alberta, through 2 provinces to get caught by the ontario police? Seems to me this is in more ways then one another failure of Alberta enforcement...... edit in sorry I don't realy mean to rag on albertas enforcement but this guys should have been caught right at the lake imho

Went out with Glen the other day and he brought the dog along. He actually behaved pretty well for his first time out fishing...... definately likes water...... and ducks LOL I wonder if any lab in history has actually caught a live duck....... they love to try but those ducks aren't stupid. Started off kinda wild but was surprised how quickly he responded to Glens scolding and was suprising well behaved...... Doesn't seem much more then mildly interested in the fish though..... Seems to take a quick look at the fish and says to himself with a hint of disdane "what are you doing? Thats the dumbest looking duck I ever saw..... You wanna a duck? Let me go catch that green headed out there in the middle of the river " He was fun but it became very obvious quite quickly that he has no instinct to not step on rod tips.......No breaks so far but I am gonna have to remember that......

I wish my mother named me Taco....... some guys have all the luck

I am gonna print that out I hope you don't mind..... Yeah that makes sense completely what you just said..... And I would agree with you..... just wasn't sure if I was wrong to be spey casting a longer head or a double taper sometimes. But you are right about LOOP lines the loop opti line that I have used is a kick ass line..... haven't tried the creek or stream but I would imagine they are both really good lines as well. And they are really accurate. Thanks for the explanation.

Gotta love the streamdance........ I have the 10 ft 6wt glx..... definately my favorite all around rod..... does it all.

No rush Whistler I'm at work and i'm not going anywhere for a while. I appreciate your taking the time to explain.

Whistler I am a little confused by your last post........... And I don't mean to be arguementative as I am just a rank beginner to the whole spey thing...... I just thought that the intended use played as big a part as the length of the rod when choosing fly line/head length but that there was limitations.......... So can anyone go over the 3x skagit line 5x traditional line guidelines for me again...... maybe I have something mixed up...... But I thought a general rule was for a skagit line to be approx 3x the rod length so for a 9 foot rod 27 feet...... And I thought that for more traditional long belly style lines it was approx 5 x the rod length.... so approx 45 feet...... I had kinda looked at fly lines in a similar light as spey lines and found that this rule was to a certain extent transferable to spey casting with single hand rods and lines..... In practice I have found that this seems to work atleast for me and that you can easily push this guideline by several more feet due to the fact that with single hand spey casting its very easy to incorporate a haul or 2 (or 3) into your casts....... I also found that despite the fact that I could shoot more line with a short head I could still cast farther easier, and smoother with a long head...... So I have kinda looked more at the fishing range (distance) when deciding which line to use. I also consider the presentation as some times you might want to strip a ton of line back in to your short head and other times you don't ....... For most situations I find the shorter head very versatile and the most useful..... But in some situations when I am consistently fishing at a longer distance especially with a static presentation the longer head seems to be the way to go...... But I have always been a bit weird and maybe I am backasswards in this....... like I said I am certainly not a pro or anything like it so maybe you can explain this to me..... PS I just googled loop opti tapers and the compleat angler site I posted was the first one I found...... I figured there taper info was fairly accurate.

Now you just need a sidecar for your motorcycle and some old time aviator goggles for the pooch. That would be classic

Sounds like a good choice for the majority of casting...... You may someday want to look at a line with a longer head for certain spey casting situations but that line looks like a really good choice. Very versatile.

I honestly do not have time occaisionally I get a few hours to tie but not enough for me to make the commitment to a swap...... My poor excuse is work..... I have spent the last 6 months perpetually on call and whenever I try to sit down and tie it seems to be 2 wraps of thread and ring ring someone needs me to hold their hand at work...... And thats just my superiors....... It really sucks to train your new boss who has no experience and just happens to be someones brother........ Some people don't quite get that you can't teach years of experience. (I better not even get started on my staff) Sorry about the rant but lack of tying time, let alone quiet time, quality time, and fishing time has become a really touchy subject for me as of late..... however after March the 8th this just might not be a problem anymore......

wow talk about a wierd coincidence eh? 2 stolen fly fishermans cars within a month captured in canmore...... I may have to stop feeling so safe out here.

Looking at the taper info the rio gold should be a nice line. I would not think that the rear taper is going to have much effect on overhand casting but I haven't cast that line. Seems to me that it depends on the casts you wanna make. Just like with 2 hand spey casting there are lines for different uses.... everyone will have favorites. My favorite for the majority of this kinda casting is simply the DT trout taper from SA it has no head (double taper) so that means that it will perform much like a long belly spey line..... you don't have to strip in as much line before you cast I find that you can cast with a ton of line out and launch some real bombs.... Best is how well a DT line will mend regardless of how much line is out. But this line I find is best when I am not overly limited in the size of loop I can throw behind me...... Also casts great overhand. My second favorite is the Loop opti stillwater...... (stream and creek both look great but I couldn't find one) the opti stillwater has the color change and that does really highlight the sweet spot which is nice...... Thinnish running line shoots well but mends not so great. As its a shorter head I guess it could sorta be looked at as a short-mid length head spey line. I really like this line for fishing stillwaters where currents are not an issue...... I also know that I will like it on smaller streams as it presents well, loads nice, is very visible and will shoot a nice far cast when I want it to....... But I think the opti stream (creek is only made up to 4 wt right) might be a better choice for streams..... If you want a line that is somewhere in the middle head length then the rio gold is gonna be in that area......Sounds like some really good lines have been suggested..... however I wouldn't even include the opti stream~27feet and rio gold~47feet in the same catagory..... Head length on the rio gold is nearly 20 feet longer I think thats gonna make the 2 lines very very different. But to then compare the snowbee xs ED is again an unfair comparison the snowbee ED is gonna come in at an amazing ~60 foot head..... this line is a monster but must launch total bombs if you can cast it........ So I think the bigger question needs to be what sort of casting do you want to do? I thought about it and thats why I like my double taper its cheap and it seems very versatile to me...... But I really really would like to cast the snowbee ed for distance and the loop opti stream for smaller river tighter casting situations...... http://www.compleatangler.biz/Loop/Lines/OptiLines.htm http://www.fly-fishing-tackle.co.uk/acatal...BEE_XS_EDF.html http://www.rioproducts.com/product.php?fmCategory=3

I love labs.... Congrats Glen..... Do I still get to go fishing with you now that you have a new fishing buddy...... Hope so cause as smart as they are I bet that dog can't net a fish..... if he can..... we'll thats about all I got going for me over the dog so heres hoping he can't

I'll be "Dredge Rivers" or "Double Hauler"

Had you going there for a second didn't I..... Nah we just wanna knock boots

Hmmm girls think we are so easy to figure out.... "we know what guys want"..... not true sometime we would just like to come home to a big boquay (boocay, bouquet I dunno) of flowers or a singing candygram or a string quartet at work..... Maybe some cuddling round a warm fire or just some talking..... were not so 1 track minded as you think......

I like them as its a different form of flycasting. They have their places where I find them quite usefull but in some places and uses I see them as being a bit cumbersome..... I also have say that fishing nymphs with a skagit head at distances over 60 feet it damn near pointless if you have conflicting currents as you can't mend the heavy head very well with the light running line...... But a different line could remedy that issue. So like regular fly casting you need to continuosly modify your rig and gear to best use them for the present situation...... So this means a whole nother set of lines, spools, reels, leaders, tips ect..... it all costs money so if you want to keep your expense in the fly fishing hobby to the absolute minimum don't take spey as you will find that very little of your single hand stuff is gonna be useful. Another thing to mention is that until you have learned to push the single hand capabilities to the maximum the spey rod will simply become a crutch...... atleast thats how I feel. But if you have plans to go fish big streamers for big steelhead and salmon or trout in confined casting situations on large water...... they(spey) have to be priceless......

Someone call 911 I think Fishietales is having a seisure!!!! LOL had to read that last line 3 times. I wouldn't worry to much about these things yet.... they have not quite got the whole population to a state of total complacency and apathy yet. Once they do then they will make their move....... I just hope I get a new model of chip implant evey year and a green shock collar when "They" set their plan into motion.

I subscribe also to the P.O.S system...... you can even do it with an open bed truck...... just put valuable fly rods in the back of the truck, cover with a wormy moldy old tarp and a broken childrens tricycle circa 1965 maybe a couple worn out pairs of shoes and bobs your uncle........ I think you could hide gold bricks in the back of a truck if you covered em with maggotty bread 4 hubcabs and a 2 month old bag of fragant smelts. Anyways enough jokes I have heard that some of those GPS police systems are really really good. Am I mistaken or can you get such a system that they can actually shut the vehicle off remotely? Thought I heard about that

Well that valentines day was......... about 7000 kms from perfect. But atleast I got to go fishing for a bit

you know what scrap me.... just found out I have to go out so theres probably no way I can even get mine posted today. I'll post it when I can but I'll have to take a miss on the contest......

I know i'm late but can I still enter a fly...... its 9 am now but I should be able to get mine up by 10 am if my camera charges up

Well hopefully they get all that stuff sorted out for you Din...... Sounds like you got some backup gear so you can still fish....... What'd your buddy say when you told him his stuff was MIA? Its tough its to blame the the cops to much I figure. I know a few people within the Calgary Police and they are so desperate for more cops right now they'd even let me in..... Also the typical cop answer for the why are you sitting behind that sign arguement would be that they catch more criminals of all types doing that then they do chasing a single relatively minor crime that they have little or no chance to solve.... I think its a valid arguement but it sucks at the same time.