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Right... Lol, well I was pretty much convinced before I asked.

Ok, ok I'm going to bite the bullet and pay a $100 dollars for a fishing line! I'm sure I'll like it... Does anyone know if wholesales sells it, I would go to a little shop but wholesales will be convenient tomorrow.

Last year I got a new sage launch combo w/ reel, line etc. The thing is the line on the combo is kind of crappy so I want to get a new one for it. I'm waffling between sharkskin or a GPX, I want this line to last a long time and I have heard great things about the sharkskin. Seems like quite a few people resist change regarding the new sharkskin. Maybe its revolutionary, maybe it's a fad. For those who own or have cast sharkskin line should I buy one, or buy a GPX? I’ve delayed buying for a while, since I want to hear more about sharkskin. So for those who have cast it is it really worth $100? Thanks for the feedback.

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Remember to take lots of pics and create a report after you come back. I haven’t been fishing for months (you know how that is!) so I'm living through your pics a reports. I love the crow, simply can't wait until I can get out...

Get a mac.. You know you want one.

Barry M's book has all the info.

Sasquatch is BS. Humans are virtually all over the planet and recording everything too, there is no way a massive ape could be living in the forests of NA. Hell we have a time trying to keep grizzlies away from towns and food from campers, what do you think a ape would do? There is not crap, hair, teeth or bones from them, all the pictures are different and are extremely blurry. Sorry I'm a bit skeptical, but there are 6 billion people armed with vehicles and airplanes. The amount of true wilderness left is minuet. The idea a sasquatch could exist in SW Alberta is laughable, there are hunters, fishermen and rednecks that cover every square inch of that land every year. The remaining wilderness areas have been logged or have cut lines through them. Not to mention we have about 7 months of winter in Alberta, how could these things capture enough food to sustain themselves, if they did we would find many bones of dear and other prey? There’s this thing with science (can’t really call sasquatch “evidence” science, but you get my point) that you basically can prove anything. Trust me anything, especially if you have a biased outlook on it. (GW anyone?)

Holy sh*t thats a lot of fish! The sad thing is this goes on everywhere, but good thing the Ontario police caught him. Personally I find the whole situation ironic, man from Ontario, poaches in Alberta, leaves Alberta, drives through two provinces and then is caught in his home province. That says something for our provincial enforcement, doesn't it?

And another oil executive buys a luxury home in the crowsnest pass.

Lol! (sorry about the fool comment just didn't want to be attacked personally for the validity of the video)

I hope you didn't get me wrong rickr, I posted this video as a point of interest or just something to talk about. Am I afraid of the government putting a chip into my body? No. Actually I believe Stalin isn't actually dead and he, Mao and Bush are going to get together and take over the world using lasers form satellites and robotics corpses of soldiers who did in Iraq. And that chip they have placed in you (they did it at birth) will inject lethal venom collected from rattle snakes into you from the giant computer controlling us all. Communism and the New World Order will most certainly rule the world in a matter of months. Did a mention there will be an asteroid crashing into earth at the same time so it will shock us into following the three amigos (Mao, Bush and Stalin) Seriously rickr, please don't take me as a fool. This is an interesting video on an Internet board that I posted. Not some extension of my deep personal beliefs.

Just watch it full through. At first I was incredibly skeptical, however by the end it does seem plausible… Before you dub this video a joke at least watch it ALL the way through.

Take a few minutes out of your day to watch this. I want to hear some feedback on this. I was critical at first, however watch all of it and you may be persuaded. I recommend you watch it before its "pulled" from You Tube.

Lol, Maritimes maybe? Texans are TUFF! Even in the cold?

Welcome to Calgary. Fortunatley we can pretty much fish all year round... Where you from? Ontario? Texas? Good luck

Real nice ties I really like that first one, looks particularly deadly for cutts.

Nice ties.

All the fish are south of Calgary If I were you dont even bother up north

Your right! If it stays like this for a few more days it should help quite a bit. Ya for positive thinking!

There is only little ones up north

Brent don't get me started on the Gap. I used to fish it a lot maybe 5 - 6 years ago and even between that short time the fishing pressure has sky rocketed. One of the reasons I started the Livingstone thread was to get people thinking about how we can better preserve our rivers to protect them from getting ruined. The Oldman Gap, upper Oldman and Livingstone are on the brink of not over fishing but environmental strain. The amount of sh*t that goes on there is ridiculous. So many people fish that area but take no concern to the threats that are going to eventually ruin it. Random camping, poaching, rampant OHV use will eventually catch up too the amount of stress the ecosystem can take. Coupled with the major clear-cutting projects at the headwaters and oil and gas exploration the Oldman will eventually crumble. IMO it's not the amount of fishermen rather the responsibility these people take. Due to it's proximity to a booming city of oil workers that is exceeding a million people it gets a lot of strain. The frank fact is that people don't give a damn and fish it thinking someone else will take care of the problems. Listen to the guys who have fished in Alberta for 50+ years and they will tell you something must be done. As an Albertan all my life (although a younger one) I have seen this province go up and down but one thing is for sure the amount of people in Alberta will continue to grow. We must adapt to the provinces situation or lose what is valuable to us.

IMO the opposite is true for the Oldman. The feeder streams are pounded like crazy and the lower sections don't have too many people on them. I haven’t fished the Castle system tons, however I found the same to be true when I fished it.

Like every method Spey probably has it's time and place. The point Toolman is trying to make is to open your minds to the possibilities of fly-fishing with a DH. I personally think this innovation and popularity boom is great in terms of DH rods, where would we be in fly-fishing if we never tried something new? As for fishing Stuaffer with a DH all I can say is don’t go light on your heart medication. Now this is my personal opinion, but DH rods can probably be used in almost all situations. HOWEVER it is a matter of choice whether you want to use one. For me I will only ever fish the crow, Livingstone etc with a traditional rod just because I'm a bit of a traditionalist. I will probably never own a DH rod - again just because its my personal feeling towards fly fishing. TM and others have advocated for Spey fish in Alberta and it has really taken off. Mostly because of how effective they prove it to be. I can see the day not too far off when the bow is predominately fished w/ DH. I swear the bow must be hand made for DH rods.