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Yeah there was one of those on Tuesday, glad it wasn't anywhere near where I was fishing.

And the royalty rate in 1970 was 12.5% Which is about half of todays rate. Maybe that's where the extra $91000 in wages has gone. It's Alberta's "fair share"

Here are some numbers of the old royalty rates: Alberta 35% Sask 29% B.C. 25% U.S. 24% For gas at $6/Mcf Alberta 37% U.S. 22% B.C. 18% Sask 18% For oil at $65/bbl Small wonder that Saskatchewan has the most bouyant economy in Canada. I know the government there was very happy with the royalty review that was put into effect Jan 2009, and the BC people were okay with it too.

The books by Paul Quarrington are similiar to McGuane in that fly fishing is only part of the story. In one of his books he writes about fly fishing on the Bow the day that 9-11 happened, kind of eerie.

Yes here in Calgary there are still people with more money than they know what to do with.

Couldn't make it to claim my prize. So who did win?

I have to add that I have taken fish on the nymph of these, but try as I might I have never caught anything on the adult. Mind you I have ony tried on the Bow and Crow, rumour has it that on the Red Deer and Stauffer the fish will take the adults.

I sure hope this post ends soon Trying to deliberate with Mr PGK (aka I know everything and you're all morons) is like wrestling with a pig, everyone gets covered in sh*t, no one wins, and only the pig ends up getting what it wants.

You are right that the money is already there, but the money that comes in from licenses goes into general revenue. It is not specifically designated towards F&W, so a surcharge that would be directed that way is a great idea. However in the e-mails I have exchanged with various government departments and individuals it is clear that they feel a surcharge would potentially damage the tourist fishery. Also they did not want to dedicate the funds from this to F&W as it would be a loss of control, this tends to be counter intuitive to what politicos are all about. So we are basically undervaluing our fishery, understaffing it, underfunding it and overutilizing it, which ultimately will result in some type of disaster. The problem is the elected officials don't want to hear what we are saying. But then, we the folks on this board are a minority within the population of this province, unfotunately for most people this just isn't that important of an issue and the government looks upon us as a vocal, radical group with no teeth.

YEAH GO CANADA! though I must admit that this is the only time I ever watch speed skating, short or long track, or even figure skating. But the girls costumes do impress me.

But you'll still be fighting logging trucks.

I know there are flaws in the US Justice system, but at least if you do something in the US, you are going to do some serious time..... they don't screw around. Adams This is a compelling argument that always comes up, but I don't think the US system is any better than ours. There is a case that is just now coming into the Canadian court system where a fellow was murdered in 1992. The reason, he also murdered someone in N Dakota, where he got 20 years and and now was basically eligible for parole, but instead he's facing our justice now. It will be interesting to see his sentence, for a good comparison of the two courts.

Yes there are various types, biggest difference is the length of the hook shank, for stimulators you want a longer shank 2 XL 94831. The hook size refers to the size of the gap, the space between the shank and the point of the hook.

I say uncouth you say? Well if it were strictly a matter of tweed sports coats and scottish briar pipes and casting a Hendrickson on m'lords chalk stream then jolly good. I enjoy casting bushy dries into riffles and having a fish hammer it or a no-hackle dry onto a crystal clear still corner pool and watching a trout materialize off the bottom to sip it in. I will flog the Bow endlessly with a nymph or wet fly. Sit on a lake and stare at my strike indicator until my eyes cross . Have the back of my head dented by a heavily weighted streamer, and spend a good part of the year doing any of these for the chance to catch a fish. You tell me, am I uncouth or what?

Well I sure hope that the police can do something with the pix that Jay got, another good use for the old can of bear spray.

Tomato, Tamoto, Potato, Patato

That is very nice.

Have you tried to whipfinish with your fingers, always works for me on larger flies.

I agree that the Saints wanted it more, I think that the onside kick really shook up Indy though. Usually the Super Bowl features very conservative play, and that was more of what you see in the CFL. It seemed from then on that the Saints got really pumped and took over the game. Plus the interception that Manning threw was the icing on the cake.

Pretty all round good game, if nothing else Sutter is a survivor. Picks up a bunch of unstars for a prima donna and a dud, the unstars are looking good so far. Penalties were pretty even and I gotta say that Backlund should stick, he has that young gun mentality a forward version of Giordano, just brings it every shift. Oh and the Leafs lost and Kovalchuk did squat. Prima donnas are stars in their own eyes, Dion who?

Have a good one and remember, you're still not as old as me.

Yes he had some type of lymphoma.

I'm always a bit leery of stats saying that the average C&R angler kills X amount of fish. I think there is more to it than straight numbers. Factors like how long do you play the fish, water temperature, angling pressure and of course handling techniques. Don may have exemplary handling techniques and his true mortality numbers would then be much below the accepted levels. I think that as a group the people on this board are generally conscientiuous enough that we do our utmost to limit the mortality numbers. It is the unenlightened majority that probably only fishes a few times a year but keeps everything they catch or culls fish that is the real problem.

Here you go.

I thought I'd write a little tribute to Paul Quarrington, one of my favorite Canadian fishing authors. He passed away last Thursday at 56. If you get a chance to read his books I'm sure you will enjoy it, he covered topics such as hockey, travel, rock n roll and fishing. Some good reads are; Fishing With My Old Guy, From The Farside of the River, Fishing for Brookies, Browns and Bows, Galveston and King Leary to name a but a few. I saw him perform years ago with Joe Hall and the Continental Drift and he could rock it out. He also lived in Calgary and Edmonton for a while and fished the waters here. As they say "only the good die young."