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Does anyone where I can buy Arizona Simi Seal #21 Black/Blue in Calgary or the Lower-mainland of BC

Looking for WF 8 floating line

Does anyone know if there are any fly-fishing shops in Calgary or surrounding area that let you try different lines?

Calgary Hook & Hackle Club is a fly tying club that has a beginners class and will be holding an open house on February 25th @ 7:30pm, come check us out. They meet in the Bow Waters Canoe Club building which is located on the Bow river off of 17th ave SE. http://hookandhackleclub.org/

What about the thousands of big and small companies they owe for design work or parts ect.

If anyone thinks charging a few bucks to go camping on crown land is going to solve the problem they should camp at a Provincial Recreation campground. Was at one this weekend here are some of the things I saw, ATV running around the campground, target practice with pellet guns in the campground, public property destroyed, people fishing with 2 and in one case 3 rods from boats and shore, litter all over the place my wife picked up 2 garbage bags of litter along the trails in the park. Did I see any enforcement of the rules no, Conservation Officers and RCMP drive into the area stay on the main road go to the lake, turn around and leave not one did I see a CO or RCMP get out of a vehicle. The Campground operators only seem interested in making money, only time you see them is to collect fees and sell wood. Let’s see some enforcement of the rules that are in place not more rules that get ignored M 2 C W

Have look at the Danvise, they sell for around $130. in Calgary but I got one on E-Bay for $65 + shiping.

Got my cheque in the mail this morning

Phil Rowley in his book Fly Patterns for Stillwaters has a fly called the Stillwater Nymph tied mainly of marabou. I have tied it in a number of colours and have even mixed colours on the same fly.

When I lived in Edmonton had a Macintosh in the backyard. That tree produced large numbers of apples the size of grapefruits. I remember one year I filled the back of my ½ ton full and still had more on the tree.

Hi Steve welcome to Calgary, check out the Hook and Hackle at www.hookandhackleclub.org/. We meet twice a month for fly tying and have some fishout during the summer. Real friendly bunch of guys and gals.

I pull a 28.5 5th with 92 3/4 Dodge Cummins average 14 miles per Cdn gal. In a real strong head wind between Medicine Hat and Calgary I was down to 12MPG I haul my trailer about 7000 km a year flat land a mountains never had a problem. I like the extra power I get from the diesel especially in an emergency. Safety is important to me if I don’t have enough staff to handle the business in the shop no one is going to die if I don’t have the power to handle an emergency someone might. My brother bought a 32 ft motor home last year with a V10 after his first summer of driving it he said that this next one will have a diesel, main reason is when climbing hills his engine is screaming and he only doing 50k/hr Fuel economy is less than ½ I get on my old Cummins.

Saturdays works for me. Just to let you know how inexperienced I am I have tied about 30 flies total.

Count me in Flytyer, I just started 2 months ago and not sure how these things work.

I'd be interested; where and when?

Don how do we move it or get it moved.

Hydropsyche have you ever tried this method. I read the articles after reading your post and then measured the intrinsic power and the action angle of my three rods. My new rod is fast action #7 according to the measurements I got. I then weighed the first 30 ft of my 4 lines and did I get a surprise.  Floating line that I thought was a #6 turned out to weighed 220 grains making it a #8 line  Fast sink line that I thought was a #7 turned out to weighed 200grains making it a #8 line  Sink Tip line that I thought was a #6 line weighed 180 grains making it a #7 line  Slow sink that I thought was a # 6 line weighted 90 grains making it a # 3 line I then went out to the park down the street and cast the first three lines with the new rod. I could cast the floating line the best; even being out of shape I could cast it 50 ft with out much trouble. The fast sink was harder to cast that distance and the sink tip I got out about 40 ft. So it looks like I need a line that weighs about 220 grains for the first 30 ft. My next step was to go to the Internet and look for specs for different brands of fly lines and found that most do not give the weight of their lines only Rio gave weights. Their Outbound WF 6 F/SI weighs 240 grains for the first 37.5 ft Next step will be to find a shop that has this line spooled on a reel a give it a try.

Will fly fishing shops let you bring in your rod and try different lines on it?

Just bought a Redington RS4 9ft fast action rod and want to use it with an intermediate sink line on lakes. I was wondering what would be the best kind of line to use with fast action rod? I might add that I am not an expert caster. Thanks for you input

Can someone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of large arbour reels. Thanks

Yes it is a full rotary vise. I bought my vise on ebay at about 1/2 of what they wanted at the cheapest store in Calgary. There are also other fly tying sites that sell them and just about anything you need for fly tying. If you do some shopping around you can find some great prices. For example I bought 12, 200 yard spools of Danville 6/0 Flymaster waxed thread in various colours for $1 spool.

Hey Trout go to this site http://www.gwentanglingsociety.co.uk/index.php. They have lots of videos showing step by step how to tie different flies. Videos on how to dub, make wings ect. Great site. Also Copperfly has a number of good video clips at http://www.copperfly.net/fly_tying_videos.php

Got my Danvise ($65.) in the mail this morning. Took 3 weeks to get here but worth the wait, tied some Crystal Wooly Buggers on it this afternoon and it works great. Came with a DVD that covers setup and jaw ajustment.

My insurance co. says they will pay 80% of of dental what they didn't tell me was that they will descide what a dentist should charge.

http://www.gwentanglingsociety.co.uk/index.php I am in the same boat as you, someone posted this site in another post a while back. It has some great vids starting with the basics and up to intermedate tying. Lots of different flies and also broken down into Heads Tails Hackle etc. I have found it very helpful. Good luck