jdangler

I'm on my 3rd pair. I just contacted Orvis they gave me the address to send them to, & a couple of weeks later brand new pair with any changes to the new model they have come out with since the original purchase. To be honest everytime I thought ok this time I'm going to have to buy new ones been looking at Simms, but I send back anyway, & there is the new ones delivered to the door. I cant get out of them but now that you talk about the 6 month thing maybe I' will have to buy new ones, & Orvis is coming out with a new model, similar to Simms, welded & the zipper, so maybe thats why the six month thing, they have probably quit making the Proguide 3's to replace with.

Really? Come on! Really? Your BSing right?

I wandered about it getting wedged in rocks & not being able to recovered & maybe having to be cut off. To me the pyramid anchor would be easier to recover

Yes, my Clack has a serial # also. If you are going to travel back & forth across the border with your boat there is one thing I'd like to add, I bought mine from the US second hand & even though I had no issues with the intial time bringing it across the border, the times since has caused me to carry my original paper work with me everytime I cross the border coming back. I pull the boat a couple of times a year to Montana & have had to pull into the big grey building once to prove I wasnt smuggling the boat across even though I had the boat for a couple of years. Enjoy

I had a pair also & they are the Cats Ass, The thing I liked was the power you can get, & also because of the way they are curved you can even walk a little, clumsy but if you hook up with a fish & half to move from the boat to the shore it can be done

SouthBow

Have a great day, no more fishing license required!

Watch for The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing starting next week, Telus has it channel 126, March 14th

Mostly off the bend to the second fly because it is easy.

I throw 2 sreamers sometimes with a couple of different leader set ups, sometimes streamers with small lead eyes or beads, occasional tangle, but no more than casting 2 nymphs.

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Thanks for the heads up. I live in Airdrie so easy for me. I sent an email, about the flytying books

Please accept this reply as an entry for the draw. Thanks Bob

DVD's RIO's Modern Speycasting 3 disc set & Skagit Master #1.

Wet Duck got me in to Airflo's Cold Water 20lb running line. I like it a lot, now on 2 reels.

If you can still find it, try The Phenological Fly by Bob Scammell published byJohnson Gorman Publishers of Red Deer where I believe Mr Scammell. Also Jim McLennans book Trout Streams of Alberta. Thes books talk about & show flys & patterns with hooks sizes for Alberta's Bugs

I have a older Clack & the only things that I would change is the rear leg brace to a newer version. It is a pain to climb over when changing rowers or sometimes getting in & out, but it is a good place to store the cooler when only 2 in the boat & the road storage. I have extra rods hanging out the back sometimes & have to make dam sure they are secure. I just about lost one once going under some trees & just by luck I caught before it went overboard.

Good rod storage, & strong rounded chines, the Bow has rocks.

I have been reading all these post, & thinking how fortunate all of you are to be able to go after Steelhead, it's on my bucket list, but job & funds keep me from it. I have been accumulating the equipment, the rods, & flies to be ready. For the record I swing flies on the Bow a lot & even though I catch more fish while nymphing I absolutely love the casting, the swinging, & the Tug & because of this I want or need to feel the same with a Steelhead. 1000 casts, who cares if I can get that Tug, that 1 big electrical type shocking Tug!

My boat has a cover & I store mine outside year round, it sits high on the front so it drains after a float trip during the season, & during winter it sits the same way, bow in the air so the the snow slides off. Never been a concern, or a worry for me, I just wash it & clean it up good & put her in the back yard, ready for next year.

Sorry to kinda hijack your thread I have a Electric Trolling Motor for sale it is Motor Guide Lazer 370ES/RF. it has seen a lake 3-4 times, in very good shape. I have a transom mount which it is attached to now & also a bow mount. It is remotely controlled which in other words it has a push button pad that can be used anywhere in the boat to steer & control speed. It has 41 lbs thrust which moved my 15' drift boat very well. $250. Thanks Bob

If didymo, I found lots the other night, had a difficult time keeping my balance, but it was in slower water where I was standing casting into faster water.

Fish Tales

The only reason for me that it is better, is because of the long length of time we have had higher water. So far this year I have only been low holed a couple of times & by gear guys, not fly, but have had only 1 boat ( a guide boat) come in close enogh where I had to stop fishing & question his ancestary. I fish Montana a lot this isnt an issue & I have been trying to think of why this is. More anglers? Knowledgable anglers? More polite, more give & take, better understanding of etiquette? Maybe it is the city? More people closer together wanting to fish? If that the case then more etquette education is needed.Also I find that the bad etiquette lessens the longer into the season you go. Put a boat on the Beaverhead, a river the same size as the Crow, where there are lots of waders & drifters and everyone is great, happy, enjoying life & catching fish, no issues, great day, great experience. Another thing I notice the boats dont realize how far a spey or swtch rod can throw & fly, so I'm watching for boats when I have my long rod out, I have come close to putting a streamer into boat, not knowing he was there.

but How do you explain the water noise? Washroom? I come clean when I'm caught, only because I dont carry the laptop, in my slingpack.