Crowsnest

Nothin like updating your facebook status with "catchin a bucketful of fish",,,,,jk, I don't even have a facebook/twitter/social media account. I usually don't have it with me on the 'friggin lakes', but today was an exception. Amen.

Over the weekend I also accidentally dropped by Blackberry (Torch) into the water for an approx 10 second soak. Dried it out via the vehicle heater/ holding it out the sunroof whilst driving home, and placed in a baggie with rice overnight. 1.5 days later, shoved my wife's battery in it and it works fine. Even tried my own battery in it and it works fine. Don't even have any condensation in the screen. Warranty is likely void though as the little litmus paper thingies on the battery and the unit have turned a nice shade of red.

yeah, and Calgary too.

Happy Birthday LE, Get the heck out there and fish on you BD.

What type of fishing is most often required to catch them ? I.E if you like to fish with a dry, but the targeted species usually require you to dredge the bottom with half chicken sized streamers, it could be a less than great experience. Try and find out how many other guests will be at the lodge during your stay. -less people may mean more time with guides and that you're not racing other guests to known hot spots. Do you have any food requirements that might negatively impact your stay ? Vegan ? or maybe you don't care for wild game which might be all what the lodge serves ? Allergies ? Do they have that 100 year old fav scotch of yours? Sleeping accommodation recently reno-ed ? After a long day on the water, you don't want to go to bed on a old, lumpy, smelly futon mattress

Here is the 2nd video that aired last year 'return to the doghouse'. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=653996803082 If they are gonna do another one this year, it should be due out soon.

22" ~ 5 lbs

I have the Protac Highwater fins below (a force fin knockoff). They cost ~$40 at WSS. They are quite heavy and made of rigid rubber, and unlike the Force Fins, they DONT float. They are good at propulsion but I find my feet/toes get scrunched in them. I have also purchased and used (once) the Outcast fins below. Paid ~$50 In my opinion, these are complete garbage. Sure, they're light and they float, and you can wear whatever footwear you want with them, but I feel they are absolute garbage in terms of propulsion. Heck, the 'fin' part only exceeds my foot by a couple of inches. How is THAT suppose to provide any kind of satisfactory propulsion. On a windy day at a local Edmonton pothole, I was kicking as hard as I could with these but wasn't making any headway against the wind, I also had to use my arms & hands for propulsion. :$*%&: My brother has some old divers fins I may try as Don A suggested, failing that, I would opt for the true (adjustable) Force Fins below but don't get these force fins

x2, they're called Bearing Buddies. and get the Bearing Buddy Bra (a rubberized plastic cap to fit over the bb)

When I built my deck, I got a permit. Unfortunately I never got started on the deck until after the permit expired - 3 years (long story). Subsequently, the city informed me in writing that I needed a NEW permit before commencing said deck. I didn't bother. Jump ahead 5 years and we're selling the house and I figured I would have a nightmare with the deck issue. All that was required in selling the home was an updated Real Property Report (RPR) showing the deck. All the RPR indicated was that "the deck was situated within the confines of the property"

all you need is here. http://www.flycraftangling.com/index.asp?p=120

like this, caught may long in Central Sask.

I remember on a few occasions fishing with my brother, and he's hammerin them and I'm not. I sheepishly and reluctantly pull a Normand McLean - "What are they bitin on?" I ask him. The answer has been: an old and ugly looking fly he's had in his fly box that he tied himself years ago and resembles nothing else he or I have, and here's the kicker, he only has 1. Frick. :$*%&: oh, and recently my daughter had to bring a qty of 100 of 1 item to school, I gave her my chironomid box and there were over 100 of them (not much compared to serious chirony ffishers, I'm just sayin that's how many I had). In hindsight, giving a 6 year old girl 100 sharp and pointy fish hooks to bring to school with other curious and grabby 6 year olds, probably wasn't my brightest idea. Luckily no one got impaled and I didn't get any nasty letters from the principal. whew !!!!

echo was has already been said. To add to LS pros/cons Float tube Pros = no set up/take down time. Even with my pontoon frame already assembled and loaded in the vehicle, it still takes me ~15 minutes upon arrival at the lake to inflate the 2 toons and strap to the frame. I utilize an electric hv pump and top off with hand pump. And of course, take down time of approx 10 minutes at the end of the day. With the frame fully disassembled, set up time is closer to 25 minutes and 20 minutes take down time. This is very important to keep in mind, because you could be fishing somewhere and the action is slow and want to go elsewhere, but the take down/set up time of the pontoon is not condusive to moving to new locations very often/at all. I have both, and there has been many times that I have been in 1 watercraft, and wished I was in the other.

I saw a tv special a year or so ago about how the pirates of Somalia first started to hijack vessels as a way to stop the illegal dumping of toxic waste into their waters and ending up on their shores.

Wow, you guys made out well, I didn't. When I accidentally broke the tip of my GL3, I was given a number to call by the retailer. Subsequently I called and GLoomis indicated that the warranty only applied to manufactured defects and not human error. I got nada. Will never buy another GLoomis again because of that.

Prior to purchasing mine, I did a bit of research and discovered that the Yamaha inverter is supposedly quieter than the Honda. Yamaha EF1000iS - 47db Honda EU1000I - 59 dB @ rated load 53dB @ 1/4 load http://www.yamaha-motor.ca/products/en/pdf...WER_PROD_EN.pdf http://www.hondapowerequipment.com/product...delid=EU1000IAN The Hyundai HY1000si @ wallyworld is 60DBA at rated load The Hyundai HY2000si @ wallyworld is 65DBA at rated load http://www.walmart.ca/Canada-Hardware.jsp?...61&tabId=21 http://www.walmart.ca/Canada-FeaturedPage....470&tabId=0

I bought my used Honda 1000I on consignment at a Honda Shop. New ~$1000, but they wanted $700. I offered $ 650 and they took it. Try kijiji or similar or visit your local motorcycle shops and try and find one on consignment. Hope that helps P

I would agree with most of what you wrote Lynn, I have two young girls (6 & 4) and we don't have a video game system in the house, nor am I planning on getting one. I spent far too much time and money in my youth on these machines and don't want to see my kids do the exact same. I see no need to get them computer/internet/ipod, etc... savvy at this age. While I'm at home the t.v time is very limited and is treated as a reward for good behaviour (tidying up toys/rooms, etc) (wife is quite busy during the day and may allow them more tube time). In the house the girls like to play barbies or whatever together along with the neighbour girls and we encourage that. When summer comes they will play outside on the jungle jim/park/cul-de-sac with the other kids (sidewalk chalk, etc...)

Man, I just bought the W30 two years ago, now they got the W90, friggin technology, out of date as soon as you buy it.

http://www.flyfishalberta.com/fortresslake/

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/0...-or-hummer.html The Recorder argues that when the environmental costs of building a Prius are factored in -- such as mining the nickel for its battery -- the race between the Hummer and the Prius for the Green Riband isn't even close. (hat tip: Samizdata) A quotation from the article demonstrates the power with which a change in perspective can alter the accounting of what seemed at first glance to be an easy decision. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles. The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare. “The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper. All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn’t end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce ‘nickel foam.’ From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce? Wait, I haven’t even got to the best part yet. When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer - the Prius’s arch nemesis. Through a study by CNW Marketing called “Dust to Dust,” the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid. One of the most subtle problems in public policy is to decide what exactly one is trying to optimize. By changing the definition of Green-ness to include total pollution rather than simply minimizing a "carbon footprint" it may well be the case that a Hummer is Greener than a Prius. But given that Canada is a friendly country an energy security case might be made for being more dependent on nickel from Ontario than oil from Saudi Arabia. By that measure a Prius might be better than a Hummer. The sage advice of all public policy professors is to redefine a problem until it is expressed in terms favorable to one's self. And, faced with the energy security argument, it might be countered that since a Prius is made by a "foreign" corporation, then that additional factor might make it "better" to buy a Hummer after all. And so on. The sad fact about most of these environmental question is that it may require us to trade off one set of objectives against another. Maybe the "world" should decide which it values more. In the case of "Global Warming" for example, many of the policies designed to reduce "Greenhouse Gases" may exacerbate poverty in the Third World. How does one rank different goals -- such as for example reducing "greenhouse gases" and reducing hunger -- and combine them into a single policy? What is nearly certain is that the process of arriving at the tradeoffs will be hard. Nobel Prize Winner Kenneth Arrow formulated what would later come to be known as the Arrow Impossibility Theorem in 1950. "In voting systems, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, or Arrow’s paradox, demonstrates that no voting system based on ranked preferences can possibly meet a certain set of reasonable criteria when there are three or more options to choose from." The need to aggregate preferences occurs in many different disciplines: in welfare economics, where one attempts to find an economic outcome which would be acceptable and stable; in decision making, where a person has to make a rational choice based on several criteria; and most naturally in voting systems, which are mechanisms for extracting a decision from a multitude of voters' preferences. The framework for Arrow's theorem assumes that we need to extract a preference order on a given set of options (outcomes). Each individual in the society (or equivalently, each decision criterion) gives a particular order of preferences on the set of outcomes. We are searching for a preferential voting system, called a social welfare function, which transforms the set of preferences into a single global societal preference order. Arrow's theorem says that if the decision-making body has at least two members and at least three options to decide among, then it is impossible to design a social welfare function that satisfies all these conditions at once. So it turns out that it is hard to create a consensus of our acceptable tradeoffs even in principle. Which is why some wags have remarked that "the only voting method that isn't flawed is a dictatorship," which would suit the Greens just fine. So maybe we do need some nature "activists" like Frank Albrecht of the preceding post to simply tell us what Gaia thinks. And it seemed like buying a Green-friendly car was a simple task.

Hey, that's not a random camping spot is it ?

I believe there is a book out called 'How to lie through statistics'. I've been meaning to get that.