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When its a Tiger, they call them "man eaters". Can bears turn into man eaters? Its a cruel world.

Well Con-Grand-u-la-tions, GrandPa! Tell me, is it even better then being a Pa (you know, the little one produced another little one)?

He probably has it as his wallpaper. Wicked fish. Kype!!!

Hilarious. You saved that picture for just such an occasion, eh? Hbd, Greg.

...so thats why I get dizzy...... Congrats, DD, but according to this guy, it wasn't your wife's fault. U.S. mess started with Carter By SALIM MANSUR Last Updated: 4th October 2008, 2:46am The story of man's fall is in part the history of unintended effects of his initial actions. Paris of Troy falls in love with Helen of Sparta that puts to sea a thousand Greek ships, and the Trojan War is unleashed. Gavrilo Princip, driven by his Serbian nationalist fervour, assassinates the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and it ignites the First World War. Neither Paris nor Princip calculated the unintended effects of his initial actions. As the United States is rocked by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and a deep recession or worse looms on the horizon threatening the global economy, politicians -- Democrats and Republicans -- have scrambled to work out a rescue package for the collapsing capital market. But how could the U.S. government be unaware of the capital and liquidity crunch of such dimension building up over time so that a taxpayer bailout of Wall Street to the tune of a trillion dollars was urgently needed? How did this tsunami of bad loans come about in the first place? The story is one of unintended effects. And politicians who unleashed it have remained in full throttle of denying responsibility. The origin of the crisis goes back to 1977 when then president Jimmy Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress. MORTGAGES FOR ALL The CRA required, as the U.S. Federal Reserve Board notes, "depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low and moderate income neighbourhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations." In other words, by law lending institutions were instructed to provide money as mortgages and commercial loans to underserved communities of mostly low income Afro-Americans and underprivileged minorities with poor credit history. The reasoning behind CRA was to make housing affordable for that segment of the American population that could not meet credit tests of the financial industry. The CRA was civil rights action with roots going back to the Great Society push of president Lyndon Johnson's administration a decade earlier. The CRA requirement brought loosening of underwriting standards by lending institutions, and the beginning of bad loans or the "sub-prime" mortgages. The two government-sponsored lending institutions -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- aggressively pushed sub-prime mortgages to high risk borrowers, and then covered the questionable mortgages by access to government-backed credit legislatively available from the U.S. Treasury. In 1995 during Bill Clinton's administration, amendments to the CRA increased lending for home purchases and the bad loans piled up while a frenzy of buying led to a real estate bubble. In 2003 President George W. Bush's administration sought a corrective overhaul of the lending practices and in 2005 Sen. John McCain pushed for reform oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. BUSH FIX DERAILED On both occasions corrective measures were derailed in the Congress subcommittee hearings by the Democratic leadership led by Sen. Christopher Dodd in the Senate Committee on Banking and Congressman Barney Frank in the House Financial Services Committee. The politics of affirmative action for affordable housing twisted sound financial practices, and over time it created a heated housing market that could not be sustained indefinitely. A mountain of bad loans eventually crashed, and the U.S. capital market was frontally assaulted by the unintended effects of the CRA.

I think as you get older, image slowly gets replaced with substance. Man, you can't watch that and not appreciate the talent.

Nice shots. You're giving Clive a run for his money.

"Ain't singing for pepsi, ain't singing for coke. Ain't singing for nobody, make me look like a joke. Ain't singing for Miller, ain't singing for BUD. Won't sing for nobody, make me look like a dud.....this notes for you" Max. I've tried expanding (thats how I discovered Sach) but it just ain't going there. However, I'm sure if I listened to it long enough, you'll catch me tapping my foot.

I have never heard 4/5 of everything you guys are laying out here and somehow I don't think I'm missing much. Head bangers and power chord hacks, I'm sure. Seriously, I like almost all music (Its a good thing hip hop is not music). I'm not that old, but I really like the guys who got it all going: Louie Armstrong Ray Charles BB King Cab Calloway (if anyone knows of any other early soul stuff I'm missing out on (use the above as a guide), let me know (Guitar is not a requirement)) And of course, the usual commerical crap that for some reason I can never get enough of (because it reminds me of my wilder days) Pink Floyd Led Zep Alice Cooper Neil Young Janis Joplin etc.

If I walked into a biker bar and yelled out "Tattoo's are for gays", could you classifiy the response I would get as being picked on by a bunch of bullies? edit: Lets assume biker aren't bullies. I'm not suggesting there are a bunch of bullies here. Maybe I should have picked a better anology

Beauty fish. How did you mark your rod? The only thing that would work that I can think of (without damaging it) is a china pencil. Maybe a piece of tape? A tip for you all. Another method is to pull a piece of tippet out and clip it. Measure the tippet when you get home.

I fly fish with my dominant arm tied behind my back (I reel them in with my teeth).....while standing on my head....blindfolded. If you don't do the same, you're not flyfishing.

It sounds like you had a blast. I wish I was into stuff like that when I was your age.

That looks great. I'm starting to believe a fly doesn't have to look anything like anything in the water. As long as it looks buggy and has a lot of movement, it will work. I'll have to tie a few of these up.

That explains it. I once drank too much mescal and puked my guts out. I now have a healthy aversion to mescal. It a good thing Bruce and Richard weren't fishing single dries.

I'm just wondering where in this article it said he was a fat assed city slicker. I've read it a few times and still can't find it.

I think I picked up Fishtales last two. Call them if you're planning on going there for one. Bill at the fishin hole was looking into them too. It doesn't grab the mono as easily as I was expecting. I was expecting to just have to pin the mono over the slot, turn the handle and it would grab it but its not that easy. You have to feed a portion of it in and sometime a few turns still doesn't grab it. I'm sure it all depends on the angle, etc. However, its a lot easier then wrapping it around your fingers and trying to stuff it in your pocket as it sprongs out, and you stuff it back in and it sprongs out again and you get frustrated and just throw it on the ground. Plus, it looks solid, so it should last a while.

I think most people would agree. Random draws would make it less competitive, imho. I'm more interested in learning then winning. You don't learn as much fishing with the same people day after day. Even someone not as good or experienced can teach you one or two things (at least thats what I've found). And it also would go farther in bringing the community together. There are only two people on this board I wouldn't want to share the river with and if I was partnered with them, I could always go in a different direction. I only suggested it because I though it would increase the number of particpants and therefore the donations, not because a stacked team would lessen my chance of winning.

It doesn't look much like a fluttering stonefly but I can see it leaving a nice V wake in its path. Not too different then a Chernobyle Ant.

I'd be in only if the teams were randomly drawn. That way, I might get to fish someone far superior to me. They wouldn't be holding back any secrets and be motivated to get me into more fish. A hell of a learning experience. More people would enter because of that chance. HawgStopper, Toolman and MTB as a team, you might as well go home.

Ummm. Cane. Man I would love to use a cane rod on the Liv some day. Actually, anywhere. Those things are way out of my reach. I fished the Liv a few weeks back with my Sig III 7ft 1wt. Its a perfect match for that river. You'd think it would be hard to land 16in cuts but no way. Brought them in just as fast as any other rod. It felt like a feather in my hand and casting it all day was beautiful. Mind you, it wasn't too windy. The 3wt felt like a broomstick after that. Nice pics.

For about 1/2hr (or who knows how long) on the Bow last weekend, I was using 0. But that wasn't intentional.

And before the regs, 78% of the anglers on the St. Mary's were locals. That pretty well negates all the pro reg arguments presented. I always like to look at the extreems when gaugeing things. If it was all about the fish and the experience, then why not *ban* all non-residents no matter how fat their wallets are? Think about it. Do you think the guides would go for that? How about the Chamber of Commerce? How about Brian Chan? I'm sure a few residents would like it. Would those of you who are justifying BC fisheries managment practices agree? How about you "its only $20/day"'ers? What's your breaking point? We all have one. Would you then join the ranks of the "whiners"? Be honest. And don't say thats ridiculous because it would never happen. Its an exercise in empathy. Some peoples breaking point is based on principle (which isn't BS). To some, its based on how it impacts them personally (how much they can afford or how often they go). Everyone has a breaking point and its not right to dis someone because their breaking point is lower then yours.

I visited the BPS in Michigan expecting to see lots of great and hard to get fly fishing gear and tying materials. I was sorely disappointed. There was basically nothing. You'd figure a store that big would have a lot of selection, but no. Hunting, Archery, camping (it still had nothing on Ribtor) and even speed boats and BBQ's but a red fox squirel skin?

Grasshopper. Does anyone in Calgary distribute these for you? The only problem with ordering online is the postage will be as much as the product. I think you have a winner there. Its not too often you see a new fishing contraption that will probably make it. I and the environment wish you the best of luck with it