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An alternate material I use is poly yarn or MFC Widow's Web for stimmie tails. If I use poly yarn I also comb out the tail.
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On 5/1/2018 at 7:57 AM, SilverDoctor said:
Experimental fly using old fly line as abdomen. Should float nice
Is that the same abdomen as Forget-Me-Not Midge? Just different flyline.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer. Appreciate all the info and help
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Curious SD, for the above dry fly is the shell style necessay? Or does it catch more fishermen? Great tie as usual (must get boring reading all these compliments
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FYI Rick, the link in the post goes to your login page (At least on my PC). Was able to access from your I have a blog link.
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Drove by the Harvie Passge for the first time in months and was amazed at power of the rapids. Below the last one it looked as if bowl was created. Could not imagine getting caught in that turbulent water.
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I did not find a bag a weed but someone tossed half of their grinder on our lawn. To trade for a bamboo rod that must have been a nice sized bag
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For those who have never called RAP, like me, what is their response time after placing a call? I assume getting a licence plate # would help the officer if they leave the area.
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So Rick in your last blog post when you compared your friend's netting skills to Mr Bean - would this be a close comparison?
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I have invested in two growers and BLO. However they are a very small percentage of the portfolio, less than 3%. If they fall in price it won't kill the portfolio.
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I am a third generation Albertan. Born and raised in Calgary. I started fishing recently if I round up it was three years ago. Growing up, my family was not into fishing. I do remember the first fish I caught was a perch. Some kids we met at a campground let me try it for a few casts. I was so proud rushed back to the campsite to show off my fish to my parents. A few moments later my younger sister came back to the camp site with a pike that made my perch look like a minnow.
As a teen I discovered golf and that is how I spent my summers. First job was at Shawnee Slopes (it is hard to drive by the old course now to see it flattened). My last job in the golf business was at McKenzie Meadows. Would see the odd fly fisher while on the 3rd hole but it never really caught my interest.
My oldest daughter was the one who introduced me to this addiction. We were driving home from Disneyland and stopped in Great Falls overnight. The nest morning we were shopping in town before the trek home. We stopped in Scheels and she saw a SpongeBob Sqaure Pants fishing rod and decided it was something she must have. When summer hit I went to Cdn Tire and got a spin rod. Took her out. Went to one spot and we had not luck. Hiked upstream a bit and her first cast at the new spot she scared a fish onto shore where it flopped for a couple seconds before getting back into the water.
After giving it a go a few times I took notice of how others were fishing and it seemed everyone had a fly rod. So I decided to give fly fishing a try. Found casting very difficult a first. Then winter came and I began watching fly fish videos on youtube and vimeo. I saw a tenakra video and thought that I may be better off learning to cast with tenkara rod. I spent the first half of 2015 learning on the tenkara rod. I hooked and landed a nice sized cutty but broke the tenkara rod in the process. Walked back to the car to get my fly rod and a few minutes later hooked and lost my first fish with a fly rod. Been addicted ever since. -
He has removed the comments off of youtube on the first video and deleted and reposted the second video under a different title. You can check out his channel page @ www.youtube.com/user/doggy69247/featured (classy user name)
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Muha, looks as though a couple of us have called him out on fishing the closed section. He is trying to defend himself in response to the comments left on the first video.
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After watching 15 minutes of last week's debate and listening to Trump's answers it reminded me of drinking games we made up in College while watching TV or movies. Rules for this game, take a drink if Trump mentions a city and at any point before the end of his answer he mentions that he has an investment, owns property, or has built a structure in the city.
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Finger then ankle, ouch. Starting to sound like "if it wasn't for bad luck - I'd have no luck" type of summer. Nice pics too. Since I discovered fly fishing 2 years ago I rarely golf now. Trading one addiction for another.
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A friend and I came across a guy fishing with his dog a couple weeks ago. We exchanged greetings and asked how things were going today. The guy collected his gear and left pretty quickly afterwards. We began fishing a large back eddy and my buddy came across a bull trout on the bank with its head chewed off. Considering how fast he left the area we assumed it was him who caught the fish and could not remove his large treble hook in time and the trout died. Not sure if this would be considered poaching or not but how fast he left made us think that he knew what he did was wrong.
We came back to that hole to finish the day and this guy and his dog came back. The dog made a bee line straight for where the bull trout was. At that point I was pretty sure it was him. Without witnessing the act could we have called it in and being near the trunk road how fast would the response be? -
I use rings and small swivels while using dries, wets and nymphs. Have not had an issue of the ring or swivel pulling the dry fly under. I don't bother if using a streamer.
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rickr aka TEX, hope you hit it flush. Couldn't imagine catching the ball fat or skinny on a busted digit.
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"Samsungs are the worst for water". I second that statement. Mine died after my first fall in the water. Tried using the bowl of dried rice to absorb the water in phone. And after a week on life support it finally died.
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Alberta Health Service posted a notice last Friday regarding contaminated water between 25 Av SE and 9 Av SE
http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page13290.aspx
City has placed signs warning people not to swim or wade along this stretch. Included water hazards on the sign are water quality, changing water levels, and broken glass/debris.
Possible reason for the drastic change in flows
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I know this is an old topic. But I have a question where to begin the drift. If you are concentrating on a seam would you cast quartered down to the seam to let them drift and then let it swing away from the seam? Or have them swing through the seam to let the flies rise while crossing the seam?
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I have read that wind knots can reduce tippet strength by 50%. Since I am relatively new to fly fishing my knot skills are lacking for some knots like the blood knot. When I set up to nymph I use a tippet ring and I tie a stopper knot between the tippet ring and my first fly for the split shot. Would this stopper knot reduce tippet strength also?
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I began nymphing last fall and began with the dry dropper method. My biggest hurdle was the time I spent untangling the set up until I learned how to cast with a more open loop. Flies I used at the beginning were stimulators and brassies. After I spent more time fishing than untangling I began using the indicator set up. Now I am working on mending the line to get the proper drift while indi nymphing. Take my advise with a grain of salt I am still learning myself.
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Thanks for the input. Will try to brush on as suggested by muha. No I have not tried on spray-on treatment.
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Will be cool to see Todd Moen's flick at IF4 tomorrow