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Amazon (even the .ca site) and eBay both have some options available.

get a PC.

Wasn't on the fly, but a fun time was had nonetheless. A few years ago we were mackerel fishing in PEI. One of the folks on the boat managed to get this tangled in their line, and we had a rather fine time landing it. It took about four of us to get it on board to cut the line. (Gannets make our gulls look like sparrows.) This guy looked perfectly unharmed after the ordeal; after the Cap'n let him go, he flew around for a few minutes but stayed close to the boat to wait for cleaning time.

This is way more entertaining than the vice/vise debate on the other forum.

Too late. By now he's already read this and has his whacking day stick polished and ready to go.

Except a Winston I've heard/read very good things about the Orvis Recon. I have the 6# Access, (which the Recon replaced) and I quite like it for streamers and bigger game. I tend to use 6 weights on stillwater, so my experience and obvious bias to Winston is based on my 4# BIIIX I use for dry fly fishing

This from the AB Wilderness Assc really resonated with me... Joanna Skrajny, Conservation Specialist with Alberta Wilderness Association: “Approximately 90% of Alberta’s provincial public land is open to motorized recreation even though only 2-6% of the population uses OHVs for fun. Deadline for the consultation period is extended, so if you haven;t done it yet, you have no good excuse

The finisher's name is Geordie... how cliché. I bet he commutes from Tyneside. Many years ago I did some touring around that area, but that was long before I was interested in fly fishing. Perhaps if I go back, a factory tour might be in order. Thanks for sharing Lornce.

Never heard of Togens before. Prices look very competitive. Thanks!

That 30 second/60 second mortality rate was a little surprising to me. A tip I once heard was to hold your breath as soon as you take the fish out of the water... if you have to breathe, then the fish has to as well, so back in the water it goes. The 72% mortality at a minute suggests my above tip is probably reckless in terms of a guide for fish survival. I think there is far less chance I will die if I hold my breath for a minute; that said, if I stuck my head under water for a minute after running a 200m dash, I might not fare so well either. One cannot assume though that a "hero shot" automatically means the fish has been out of the water that long. If everything is all set ahead of time, you can easily get a decent pic in 10 seconds or less.

Canadian Llama for beads, and a limited supply of other tying stuff. The winter in AZ, so orders may take a little longer to arrive in the colder months. You can pay in CDN $ though no matter when you order

Kijiji in Calgary... in like new shape, so saved some money to put toward more hackle

Here's some pics. Installed some LED lights and hung a bunch of materials last night. Still a few things to figure out yet (hook & bead storage for example) and need some containers for chenille, feathers & fur vs the bags they are in now. Otherwise pretty happy with it.

First, it is hard for me to believe that there have only been <2000 responses to the Castle survey (#incredulous #incensed) There should be almost that many from FFC doing the darn thing! #5 & #6 points times a thousand.... the key is enforcement... without that, AEP may as well walk away from the Castle. This isn't just a southern Alberta issue; zero tolerance for OHV anywhere in the province in our waterways, and increased patrols of high OHV use areas needs to continue/be upped. I do like the proposition of association run trails; nothing quite so effective as a group monitoring their own. Works well in little ole Nova Scotia (some would say arguably), where my father-in-law is an enthusiast and part of ATVANS.

Thanks... I see a couple on the Calgary site. Unfortunately my truck is under the weather (about $8k damage being fixed from a rear-ender), so not sure I can transport an assembled one down to the Bridge in the rental car I have at present. Edit: Where there's a will... changed my rental to a jeep for the long weekend and zipped up to the big city. Got the IKEA HEMNES secretary off of Kijiji. Lots of room in this thing (for now), and am slowly "moving in" to it. I'll post a couple pics when I get it set up.

Are you a dad, cause that was a perfect dad joke right there... dye-arrhea Our dog is short and rather well-behaved. I leave my stuff out now on the floor often in our office, and he has yet to touch anything. Better to be safe than sorry though, so good point. I do like the notion of being able to close things up, hence my original search for a roll-top. Showed my wife a pic of the Ikea secretary at lunch, and it seems to have a fairly high acceptance factor. My kids are too old to worry about their little hands, and too young (God willing) for me to start worrying about grandkids.

Not a bad idea, but maybe I could do both... a permanent setup for storage and tying the winter months away, and also keep my current totes for some portability, if I ever get to that level of expertise in my tying. I did take a look at that. I think that would be awesome for a coffee table or table top setup, but don't think it is quite what I'm looking for. Going to be tucked away in either an upstairs bonus room, or in a basement family room area. Not too concerned about cosmetics, but moreso functionality and something with a good amount of storage. The Cabelas one would mean another unit for material storage for sure. I don't mind the Ikea Hemnes, especially the one with the add-on top part, and then am almost double the price of the craft desks (but with much more storage, and guessing more appeal to my better half).

Have seen a few pictures of various benches/desks on here and other places, and think I am finally going to move my tying materials off my computer desk and onto a dedicated unit. I have been keeping my eyes open on local kijiji sales for desks (especially roll tops), but without much success. The other night, I came across a series of "craft" desks. Several different models available, but here's a couple that look interesting... South Shore Crea Sewing Table South Shore Crea Craft Table Any thoughts on these? I'd love to hear from some folks who have been tying for a while, in chase of that perfect setup. Or maybe you are like me and are new to the tying game, but think you have found the perfect setup-- I'd welcome your insight too. I am torn... holding out a little longer to see if I might be able to find a good used roll top that is reasonably priced (some folks want ridiculous sums of cash for them) vs. impatience pushing me toward buying something new.

I also read this last night, and likewise found it a little depressing. Read this article too shortly before that, so was in a pretty miserable mood before turning in for the evening.

...and it's hard to imagine it not being in the Oldman and Red Deer systems before long. I hate to be fatalistic, but if those waters escape unscathed it will be nothing short of a small miracle.

Quick ask of the google machine points out that this is likely research being supported through NSERC grants. A more balanced overview of what Dr. Goss is looking at is likely presented in the Edmonton Sun (don't often find me using "Edmonton Sun" and "balanced" in the same sentence). It's a big leap to suggest the research is pro-Saudi oil oriented or driven. A couple of The Sun article quotes frames it for me... "Everybody knows it’s not honey water, it’s an industrial effluent." Then he says "I’m a big believer that you can have industrial activity that’s good environmental management and that the trade offs are being adequately managed."

Stage 1 is reclaiming unauthorized trails. Plan is to phase them out entirely, as it states in the Castle Management Plan on the bottom of page 102... "Alberta Parks will develop a transition strategy to phase out recreational OHV use in Castle Provincial Park and Castle Wildland Provincial Park." I thought I heard the timeframe of 3-5 years mentioned as the phase out period. That's what has the OHV users of that area so upset; the transition plan appears a little fuzzy at this stage. I would tend to agree that if it is not done very thoughtfully and with replacement opportunities, that it will simply drive the destructive effects into other areas (e.g., the Crowsnest Pass), which could have significant impact on other parts of the watershed. Not an OHV user myself, but I'd say that lots of careful planning needs to be done here. As for bullies eating caddis... my understanding is that aquatics are their mainstay when younger/smaller. It's not until they become quite large that they shift to almost an exclusively predatory diet.

And apparently not only do I not know how to embed Youtube videos properly, but also can't spell roosters

Cool video from Whiting Farms... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nAPI2esNNz4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Looking for a simple way to get live video up onto a big screen for tying demos. A buddy is going to be leading a few of us through some ties over the next little while, and I thought it would be nice if we could see what he's doing without us all being huddled around his vice. I was thinking perhaps a peripheral webcam connected to a laptop, but not sure how regular webcams typically do on closeup stuff. I haven't figured out how to get either of my digital cameras (Canon G15 and Olympus TG-4) to output their screens... seems to be some online stuff related to doing it with DSLRs but not so much with p&s cameras.