bigalcal

1. Fish some new waters 2. Improve my nymphing 3. Stalk and catch bullies 4. Maybe fish the Bow for the first time!! HaHa

Count me in there too Lynn. I'll even take Saturday off one or two weekends! Bring your wine faves!

On my last trip to the Gap on the last weekend of September I discovered that you can find a #24 BWO on the water if you tie it 16" off a very visible #16 Parachute caddis, and no tangles!

I stopped by Bow River Troutfitters today (Jan 27). Nothing going on there,

This year for the first time I said to myself, " I finally think I know what I'm doing". I fished and camped 43 days mostly around the Oldman and mostly by myself. I can't wait for opening day!!

I thought Gaye Delorme wrote it?

I have looked at tons of info and comparisons and I would buy the Pentax. It all comes down to the zoom for me.

Dryfly, That wasn't me (Although he looks like me, the CO that is). That's the guy I saw above the "Falls" at the Gap.(Right?) It makes total sense to watch from afar.

I fished the Oldman Gap area 40 days this year and I wasn't checked. I contributed to "Stream watch" and I figured I would see some one due to extra patrolling but it didn't happen. I did see someone spying with binoculars on the cliff just below the Gap one day tho'. I'm not really concerned as I know how thinly they are spread out in AB. Of course with my luck I would be approached when in my haste to match the hatch I forgot to debarb!! I never saw any flagrant disregard to regs except perhaps some families at the campground who wanted some family fun and just don't know any better. I think we all did the same on family camping trips when we were young.

Try Country Pleasures. http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?showtopic=6998

I was turned on to this pattern at the Crowsnest Cafe and Flyshop. It is a pattern made by Turcks of Tarantula fame. Awesome fly and very visible. "Cutthroat Candy"! http://www.flyfishingjacksonhole.com/fly_t...e-power_ant.htm

That's the one Flyangler! Thanks alot! Say Hi to Suzie. I knew her and Al from the old days in Banff!

I have a Pentax Optio WPi. It has worked well for me. I don't have many underwater fish pix 'cause it is difficult to do when you are fishing solo most of the time. I believe that I may have scratched the lens cover so I am looking for an upgrade. I stopped by "The Camera Store" today. I do agree that it is the best shop in town. Very helpful, knowledgeable staff. Anyways, I looked at both the Pentax Optio W60 as well as the Olympus Stylus 1030. Obviously the Pentax is much better than the model that I have. Side by side, the Olympus has a lot more durable body , (Steel vs plastic). Picture quality is the same, Olympus has a lens cover, Pentax doesn't. Olympus has a nice macro feature which includes an LED light but Pentax has a bigger zoom. Decisions ...decisions! Bugs or Mountain goats! I dunno...............................to be continued.

Are you staying at Palladium Vallarta?

I ran in to Brett Hull in the Cabo Wabo bar in Cabo san Lucas during the strike year. I talked with him for a while and then I called my friend over. I asked Brett if we could get a photo and he said "Yes". So I gave him my camera and he took our picture!! Not what he expected. It was classic!! I now have a "Brett Hull snapshot"!!

Well, I have a favourite spot and it wasn't known at all until some one put up this sign. Now everyone is fishing it!!!

Sean is Johnny Darbles

So after a summer with the new Sharkskin line I was very happy with it. It is an awesome dry fly line. Floats well, picks up well and roll casts well. Now that I'm done for the year I was wondering about the maintenance/cleaning I should do. Does one use Armour All? Soap? Line dressing? Because it has a rough texture would these products ruin the line? Advice please.

C'mon Flames Fans, Kipper shaved down his GAA in those two losses to Edmonton. I think Keenan is going....gone!

After the first game the Flames got what they wanted..........balanced scoring from all 4 lines!!!

Here's a link to another great use for vodka. Can't wait to make a batch of BACON flavoured vodka!! http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/200...flavored_v.html Also a jigger is a shot glass. You got that right Lynn.............Weird!! Lol

I know...I know..........!!! It was very frustrating with no camera!! Fishing was OK. Bring lots of very small dry flies!!

I went down to theOldman Gap etc Sept 28-30. Froze my butt off tent camping at RHC and still got a sunburn from the beautiful weather!! All the cattle are getting rounded up now. It was kinda neat to watch especially on a couple of amazing sunny days. The Gap is full of dust from the cattle trucks going back and forth and long lines of cattle are being driven down Maycroft Rd. Alberta at it's finest!! There were a lot of great photo op's but I forgot to recharge my camera!! PMO!! I did stop and ask a cowboy how many cattle he loses a summer and he told me that they had lost 12 to wolves that they knew of. Yikes!!

Looks like the Flames record since '89. They are a match made in heaven!