shredneck

If you use flux and get it hot enough it should pull the solder right up. The propane in the yellow bottle works better then the blue bottle(hotter) At least this has been my experience.... I am however NOT a plumber.

Good job!! It's hard to pass up a perfect opportunity. I ended up with a fine whitetail while looking for a bull moose. He has a few broken tines which subtracts from his inches but adds in his character.

Nah, I helped my bud get his nice 4x5. I'm up next year. Saw some real crankers out there, more mature bucks then we've ever seen the area we hunt. How's yours?

MIne's in the freezer as well, however one more look for elk then a bull moose tag to fill....aaaaannnd there's always a chance a nice whitetail will pop up in there somewhere.

Looks like someone has a mule tag.......

But...... ....it's hunting season.

My dog's on Horizon pulsar, for a "premium" dog food I find the price quite good. My dog loves the fish formula BUT she's a Lab so she she would literally eat anything. http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-reviews/pulsar-dog-food/

This is probably the most entertaining, NON-fish related thread ever!!! I've been enjoying it since day one. ...the video would really be a bonus though.

If you don't have a girlfriend and/or don't want a girlfriend then feel free to go sockless in your waders. Also you will eventually run out of fishing buds willing to carpool with you. ( I speak from experience )

How about a nice 5wt just in case the winner wants to go steelheading?

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Wow! So now swinging streamers is the benchmark of the fine art of fly casting? Hmmm, if I were an elitist I'm sure I would have chosen dry fly fishing. Seriously though, when I go to the river I have always have high hopes of seeing rising fish and getting after them on top(this is in fact my preferred method) however this is not always the case. Often times there is no surface action in which case I have NO problem adapting to the conditions and adjusting from my "preferred" method to the most effective method at the time. Sometimes streamers, sometimes nymphs or even worse sometimes the dreaded worm. I don't believe a center pin would give me this kind of adversity or adaptability. The game is catching fish. The method is the means of catching fish. The result is enjoyment. Served however you choose, your choice.

Hey Taco, I guess we don't need 420 to get some excitement around here after all.

Duck toller? They can be a little high strung(like a border collie) but they are good with water and smaller than a lab. I have a smallish Lab(65lbs), she comes EVERYWHERE with me, for me its important that my sidekick can handle being wet all day, sometimes in lousy weather. I like being able to take her on the boat with no need to worry about her getting cold in the shoulder seasons(most of the time) Also I end up doing some ridiculous walk and walks in canyons from time to time and she's "all terrain" to follow me everywhere. She even retrieved a fly box of mine that fell in a swollen river and was as good as gone! Anyway, if you plan on taking your dog fishing, think about water and weather.

tomorrow is the day(for me) it'll have to do.

I don't need "science" to tell me that barbs do more damage than barbless. It's pretty obvious. Let me stick a barbed fly in your left hand and a barbless in your right.... I'll be getting the right fly back and i'll consider the left one a gift because it will not be coming out in one piece. Personally I'll be sticking with barbless as I don't like "gifting" all of my flies. (oh and the fish may appreciate it)

A flask of Glenfiddich.

Gangnam Style

Looks like a 19 incher to me (It's amazing what a tape measure does to most anglers estimates ) This is an excellent photo. Maybe the vivid colors and sharpness of the photo have triggered your scepticism? The trout is in focus as it is the main subject of the photo... IMO the fish is normally the main focus of any great fish photo. What is there to be skeptical about? Who cares where it's caught? Alberta is where the topic is about so lets assume it's caught somewhere in this vast province. Who cares if its dry or not? Caught by angling????.. really?.. you think she speared it? or electroshocked it? or better yet some else speared it and handed it to her so she could pose for pic with someone else's fish? If she was holding a shark and claiming it was from Alberta, I'd be with you on the skeptic train BUT this is a cutty, Alberta has a few of these. I hope it stays that way, I like the little buggers.

is that an deer/elk behind your camp in the first pic of the second batch?

Mine lasted Very long and on a heavy truck at that(f-250 diesel)

Geolanders

It will happen eventually, Alberta is just way behind everyone else as usual. (ie-texting/driving law, tobacco reduction act, etc) Wouldn't zero retention be easier to enforce? No more playing dumb to size restrictions. I agree that the gear chuckers are more organized(and defensive towards change of any kind) but a lot of these fellas are C&Ring the Bow anyway.

Wow, I guess he was in a big rush to get home from school?!

* C&R * No Bait * Single Barbless(single shank,single point) Not elitist.... just practical. Go ahead and chuck spinners and raps, just do so with single barbless. bc single barbless