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I think the hollowness is negligible, especially since so many streamers have dumbell eyes and coneheads or lead wrapped hooks. Elk and deer hair are hollow as well and are used in bow river buggers and muddlers.

I use it for Clousers and intruders. I think you could probably use it to replace buck tail and similar furs on most streamers and probably traditional wet flies as well.

Man, I had Syracuse beating Butler in the sweet 16 round and Kansas beating Kentucky in the championship game in my bracket so at this point I have no clue. One way or the other Butler will be the underdog, so I guess I'll be going for them Monday night.

Sounds like a great concept. Can't wait to try them.

Heh, good catch. Hopefully he meant the 500m from the confluence that's governed by the same regs as the Bow and not the rest of the river that's closed until June 16th.

Yeah, that's the best part about it, just don't forget to sign them all. I got checked last summer and the CO was nice enough to hand it back to me with a pen because I hadn't signed it (clearly says "License not valid until signed"), but there's always a chance you'll run into one who's having a bad day...

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Damn, I was hoping you had something more recent. Guess I should cancel that order I put in for the gross of Morrish hoppers...

You have a link to that? Alberta Agriculture seems to say it's only going to be bad in the NW central areas of the province and south of Lethbridge: http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$departme...sf/all/prm12974

Think I read somewhere that dacron is good for something like 10 years, but I'd imagine amount of use and under what conditions would probably factor in. 100 yards of backing is something like $10, so I'd rather replace mine every couple years than risk losing an $80 fly line.

Great meeting you while you were here. Enjoy that rod on the grilse and let me know how it works out.

Did they tweak the part that tears your fingers up when stripping streamers? I think it's fine as a dry fly line but I'll never use it on a spey rod again.

I think the purpose of his post was also to see if there were other rods he should consider. The sentence after the one you quoted is "Anything I missed?"

I think that's the law of diminishing returns.

As much as I'd enjoy seeing that it would just give her more airtime. I'm sure she loved the whole cancellation thing for that reason alone. People like her thrive on the controversy because it just gives them more ammunition to translate into headlines.

With the weather warming up I'd tie a few streamers to chuck on that spey rod. Leeches, clousers, and bow river buggers should be all you need. For nymphs, I'd stick with what you listed - especially PT, SJW, CJ, GRHE, and princes plus stones. Might consider some para adams if you want to have some dries ready to go. Edit: Somehow completely forgot about caddis - sparkle pupa and evil weevils should cover it.

Do yourself a favour and take some lessons from a qualified instructor if you plan on getting into spey casting. Way easier to learn properly from the start than to break out of bad casting habits later on. Yes, I speak from experience.

Was that you in line ahead of me at Fish Tales this morning? Can't go wrong with the ice dub.

Those are about 5 or 6 inches long. Here's a how-to video.

It's just a MOAL leech variation tied on a wiggle tube instead. I've tied them the way you do and just thought this would be an interesting alternative. I found it's a little easier to tie them on the tube, mainly because I only have one vise. The other thing is the way I tie my MOALs they end up being a single hook fly because I start the rabbit pretty far back. With the tube version obviously you can easily change the hook if it gets bent or dull. Here are a couple I tied on shanks and 30lb dacron. They're also a lot longer than the tube version above.

That's what she.....uh, probably didn't say actually. Never mind.

Check out the manual: http://www.islander.com/PDF/LXmanual.pdf It looks like there's a clicker for outgoing that can be removed, but the pawl assembly causing the retrieve click is part of the spindle assembly. Never used an LX so I'm only guessing here.

Take a browse on Speypages. I recall seeing a couple of threads about it there.

Picked up a Canadian Tube Fly assortment of wiggle tubes from Fish Tales on the weekend and got around to trying one out last night. They say not to tie directly onto the wiggle tube or you won't be able to get it off the mandrel but Tear Mender works just fine. Can't wait to see how they swim in the current.

A Marquis Salmon 2 sounds pretty big for a 4/5 switch rod. I'm using a 7wt reel on my 6wt switch with a 390 grain Compact Scandi head and 20lb Airflo Ridge running line and it still holds plenty of backing. If you can, test the rods before you buy.