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It's a pretty heavy jacket, I use it during the winter with a hoody underneath, water resistant, not waterproof, and figure you'd melt in it in summer temps. Simms, Patagonia, etc all have light weight packable 100% waterproof rain jackets that would be much better for summer use and are designed to hold fly fishing gear. Pretty much any waterproof jacket with a few good sized pockets will work though.

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Nice to see someone take this on. The image below shows most major flyfishing related logos. Hopefully you can draw some inspiration from this.

I want to like Flymax, and think it has huge potential, but the entire show looks like a half hour preview. My wife thought it was a commercial, and couldn't believe it when I told her that the entire show is like that. They go to a lot of great places, and have some great hosts, how about hearing more from the hosts, about the places, rigs, flies, fish etc. Other than nice scenery, and fish porn, the show doesn't really provide anything to the viewer. The New Fly Fisher is probably the most educational, and does a great job of covering the entire country. I love the On the Bench segments of SFOTF, and the fact that Don and his guests do a great job of explaining tactics, just too many still water episodes for my liking, and a few too many episodes on the Columbia.

sage Xi2's are on clearance right now, and make a good streamer rod. Doubt any of the local guys have any 690-4's left, but with the high Canadian dollar, you can pick them up for a good price out of the US.

This isn't unique to Sage or new to Sage, many brands, Orvis, Sony, Nintendo, Apple do the same thing. It puts all of their resellers on a level playing field by not allowing a larger store to sell products for a lower margin knowing they can make it up in volume or related purchases. These policies in particular protect the smaller stores who wouldn't be able to compete with the volumes of a Bass Pro or Cabella's. It's my understanding that this has been Sage's policy for years. I was under the impression that all resellers are not to sell their products for less than MSRP unless there is a line that is discontinued, or for special occasions like a shops grand opening or anniversary...perhaps Sage is getting stricter in enforcing their policy. Check out the prices on any current stock of Sage, Hardy, Orvis, Simms, Patagonia products across Canada, and you'll see that the regular price on these items is almost identical

Fishes: Rainbow Brown Cutthroat Bull Brookie Cuttbow Tiger Golden Grayling Pike Perch Walleye Whitefish Sucker Burbot Chum Pink Sokeye Bonefish Pike Minnow Rodents: Beaver Muskrat Dogs: Golden Retriever Humans: Ron (leg) Tim (leg) Ike (ass) Allan (back) Misc River Junk: 4' piece of angle iron...gotta love Maxima! half of a ripped up plaid shirt wind breaker sandle

Check out the Bow River Shuttles site, they have some good information on Float times, put ins and take outs. Here's an excerpt from their site: 1. Glenmore Bridge (Graves Landing) to Fish Creek Park: A good day trip in an urban environment. Local guides will confirm that fishing is just as good within the city limits as it is further downstream. 2. Fish Creek Park to Policeman's Flats: A very popular late afternoon/evening float, or a short day trip. 3. Fish Creek Park to McKinnon Flats: A popular day trip. 4. Policeman's Flats to McKinnon Flats: A shorter version of #3. More time to walk and wade. 5. McKinnon Flats to Johnson's Island (Carseland Weir): Another popular day trip, quite different from the upstream reaches. 6. Fish Creek Park to Johnson's Island (Carseland Weir): This is a popular two day overnight camping trip.

To help with hookups on your existing flies with not enough gap, you can try bending the point out to the side siwash style. Any 3x or better streamer or nymph hook should work fine. With the buoyancy of the foam, you don't need to worry about the extra weight of the hook. A Tiemco 200R or equivalent is nice for big foam flies, stimulators and hoppers.

x2 Our defense needs to get better, absolutely no run stopping ability, and overall poor tackling. Too many guys going for the highlight reel big hit instead of getting their arms around the ball carrier and making the sure stop! We need an Alondra Johnson type linebacker, hopefully Barker has something coming soon with the NFL cuts.

Not sure, wish they'd change to a standard tube.

The GPX will do it all, though lacks somewhat throwing dries, that said, I'd say it's SA's best do everything line. I fish the GPX most of the year, but switch to the more supple XPS in the winter, and when setting out to fish dries. Talk to Dee at Country Pleasures, he used to rep for SA and Sage.

Unfortunately, the Sage Flights do come with the reel pouch and not a standard tube. Like 420 says, PVC pipe, glue and a couple of screw on end caps and you have a strong, cheap tube.

x2 Some of the best logo's are very simple i.e. Nike swoosh, VW, Macdonalds' golden arches, the Olympic Rings, Mercedes 3-pointed star, and of course the Playboy bunny. If you're looking at changing the logo, I'd suggest that it be clean and simple...also I'd imagine that it's a hell of a lot easier to embroider something like a Nike swoosh on a hat than that Max logo.

Well said troutlover. If people aren't aware of the importance of certain issues, they can't go to bat for us. A polite informative letter, phone call, email is all that's required. As a result of watching The New Fly Fisher, I've traveled to Manitoba to fish for tigers (going again this year), and I've seen a few others from Fly Fish Calgary who are planning to do the same. The New Fly Fisher also has me interested in trying out some of Ontario's salmon and steelhead fisheries. These are just two examples of how the program provides great marketing potential. In a time of shrinking budgets, the people at Travel Alberta need to see that there is a potential return in funding the shooting of an episode(s) of The New Fly Fisher in Alberta. My experience is that people in general want to help, and if you approach them in a friendly informative way, they're more than happy to do what they can.

After doing some more digging, here's a direct contact to Travel Alberta. Noelle Aune Executive Director, Media and Marketing Services Travel Alberta International Phone: 403.509.2525. E-mail: noelle.aune@travelalberta.com.

It might be a good idea if a few of us were to give the Honourable Cindy Ady, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation a call, and remind her how much revenue the fly fishing industry contributes to the province, and even directly to some of the businesses within her riding of Calgary-Shaw. And while you have her on the line it wouldn't hurt to remind her how important it is to maintain public access to the river within her riding in the Dawes Pitt/Fish Creek/ 194th ave area. This is an access point used by many, not just Chaparaller's like RickR and myself, that may be lost with some of the development plans proposed for this area. Cindy Ady Legislature Office #229 Legislature Building 10800 97 Avenue Edmonton, AB Canada T5K 2B6 Phone: (780) 427-4928 Fax: (780) 427-0188 Constituency Offices Constituency Office #328, 22 Midlake Blvd. SE Calgary, AB Canada T2X 2X7 Phone: (403) 256-8969 Fax: (403) 256-8970 calgary.shaw@assembly.ab.ca

Thanks for passing this on, and especially to those who serve, and have served on our behalf.

I lost a spring on a Sage 3500D changing the retrieve, spoke to the guys at Sage's warranty department, and they mailed me out a set of new springs. I had them within a few days, and it didn't cost me a thing. The service was excellent! Hopefully you have a similar experience with your 2500.

Excellent choice of guides! I wouldn't be too worried about looking ridiculous in front of Dee or Jim. Pretty good chance that those two have seen it all as they've been fishing, and guiding on the Bow before a good number of the members on this forum were even born. If you pick up even a fraction of what these two can teach you, you'll have plenty of success.

You can also try Fish Tales Fly Shop, they also rent waders, and will have anything else that you might need before heading out.

I was thinking about a page that when someone asks a common question, it would only take one reply to direct them to the FAQ's - Bow/Crow Hatch Charts with some FFC fly recommendations. - Bow/Crow River Map similar to the one that Country Pleasures used to hand out showing public access points, put in take out points, maybe add drift times etc. - Recommended beginner single handed setup for the Bow - Recommended materials to get started with fly tying - How to separate a stuck rod - Waterproof Camera Recommendations - Links to knot tying pages - Links to leader construction pages - Links to sponsors, online regs, online licensing, report a poacher line - Fly Fishing Ethics etc. etc. etc.

Perhaps a 'FAQ' section could be created that would list answers to the common questions, previous threads answering these questions could be pinned here.

I just use the yellow antron that you can find at Walmart, Zellers, etc, and instead of the gray dubbing for the head, I use peacock herl. Here's a good step by step Emergent Sparkle Pupa

OK, so women we agree, reels we agree to disagree