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It's way too early in the winter to be planning a new adventure, this sucks.

Bloom's leech also works perfectly as an emerging damsel without any modification.

James, I grew up fishing on the East coast for brookies as well. I also lived in South Florida a couple of years before moving to Alberta, my only regret is not making it back into the Carolina's, it looked awesome, unfortunately my plan for American citizenship got squashed. Snakeman, remember there are 330 million Americans compared to 33 Million Canadians so your answer could be a resounding yes during the tourist months as James has said. Cheers.

I've never found Montana rivers to be crowded, but maybe it's the rivers I've fished or the time of year we've always gone, never been mid summer, always in April,May, June. I found the rivers down there fish somewhat differently than say the Bow. The Missouri - Great river to float or walk and wade, lots of public access, easy nymphing early on with phenominal dry fly fishing May - June. Clarkfork - Great floating river, tons of overhanging bushes and trees along the bank make for excellent hopper/dropper fishing with large stoneflies. Pods of large rainbows consistently rising to small dries. Bitterroot - some good walk and wade access, excellent for floating but can be dangerous if not careful, there are lots of channels, lots of turns, tons of mid river structure, beaver dams, log jams etc where trout will hang out. Nelson Spring Creek, Depuy's Spring Creek, Armstrong spring creek - for some technical fishing these are great, I would rate Depuy's my favorite, Nelson is great. Armstrong is good to but would have found it crowded if there had been more than 3 of us on the stream that day. Mostly rainbows at these creeks with the odd brown thrown in. Beautiful area! I'll go back and try the Yellowstone, which from pictures I've seen has some very large Brown trout. Montana, not unlike some parts of Alberta, is a beautiful place and well worth the experience of just going. I've got plans to try out of few more rivers down there namely, Gallatin river and tribs in Yellowstone park, Glacier National park, and perhaps a walk and wade on Rock Creek. Catching an American Cutthroat will be my next goal. You can see some pics from some of my previous trips a couple of years ago here Montana 2005 and here Paradise Valley P.S > SanjuanWorm, I think your dreamy too, lol.

Come on this is a family forum! If I did they definitely wouldn't have a problem noticing though LOL

Being from the Maritimes I know squat about football but Wednesday I flew a Westjet flight to Toronto with the whole Stampeder's cheerleading team. I don't really have a point, it was pretty sweet though, they couldn't keep their eyes off me

Sounds like fun, I love drinking contests

Fishtales carries a line of Cloudveil stuff in Calgary.

I'm also needing to retire my Simms, they were definitely comfortable but they started leaking pretty quick, but I lived with it for 2 years anyway. I've been eying the Cloudveil waders as well, they came down considerably in price from their initial offering in Calgary and are cheaper than SIMMS. For some reason I thought they were a Canadian brand but if not then I guess GREAT! even cheaper. I also like the fact that the wading belt is built in since I always lose my belt. Also you can fold the waders down to your waist to wear like pants, great in the warmer weather. Let me know what you decide Conor, maybe we can save on shipping.

Ok so much for our Honolulu schedule. We fly to Kona now too, it's on the big island so you know Tiana

You've lived on the big island! So, have you fly fished for Peacock bass in the Kauai reservoirs or how about Lake Wilson? I've been concidering something like that this winter. Sorry to change the subject, boo DOG!

You bet Don, but in your expectations don't forget to to include the 1 % drop in the crack spread in 3rd quarter 2007 and 14 % drop since 2006. (the difference between the price of crude oil and refined products such as gasoline and jet fuel).

Hopefully the upward trend in the Canadian vs US dollar stays for a little longer, at least until the price of crude oil stabilizes. For every one-cent change in the value of the Canadian dollar versus the US dollar my company operating expenses decrease an approximate CAD $4 million per annum.

Since there is talk of the Sharp Aquos on another thread, here is another price gouging example: USA (Florida) - Sharp Aquos 46" LC46D82U , 1678.00 CDN + Freight Insurance/Shipping 312.00 + GST = 2109.00 Canadian BestBuy/Visions/Brick Calgary - Sharp Aquos 46" LC46D82U, 2599.00 + GST = 2755.00 646.00 MORE!!! That's another nice fly rod.

Wow, all those amazing fish, makes you realize how lucky we ALL are to be Albertans. Nice job!

We were using streamers size 6-10, muddlers with lots of flash, pink, purple, blue with lots of flashabou.

All fish were caught using St. Croix 9 foot eight weight rods with sink tip fly lines.

Went to B.C. last week with Gokaroach, spent a couple of days salmon fishing. It was a ton of fun on 8wt rods. Early morning start... Gokaroach, Me, That's a female on the left and male on the right. And two salmon

Great report. I never thought I'd see the day with Brian in breathable waders.

Very cool, nice pics.

Found it floating down river between Jansen's and Carseland, looks like it would have sentimental value. PM with description if you think it's yours. Leaving town tommorow and won't be in Calgary again until the next weekend so don't expect a reply till then.

Working on Saturday, floating the Bow on Sunday then flying off to B.C. for Salmon fishing on Monday.

I'm pretty sure that is a Leoplurodon bone. For more info on Leoplurodons

I've got the Teton Tioga Magnum for my 8wt and another Tioga for a short 3wt. Agree they are both kinda heavy but have been durable so far and have an excellent drag. Haven't fished with the Trion's but have had a few Battenkills. Can't go wrong there either. Like someone said there is a sale on the Battenkill large arbours direct from Orvis. Great deal when factoring in the value of the CDN dollar. I think when you're buying a reel at that price range it comes down to which reel you like the looks of best.

A couple of years ago a local artist was chosen and paid $40,000 for the trout painting. The trout themselves were done as part of the structure from the mold at Lafarge when the sections of wall were cast, my brother worked at Lafarge at the time.