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Ivory is phosphate-free... http://www.caaquebec.com/Habitation/TrucsE...58-15ffe84b2853 The link also tells you why phosphates aren't good.

The thing with AP is it seems he puts it on the ground mainly in clutch situations. I started to think that the Vikes offence was probably doing fumble recovery drills for that reason alone. Barry Sanders fumbled 27 times in 10 years. AP has fumbled 20 in 3 years. Now I know that's not the fairest of comparisons, but it gives it a bit of perspective. Or looking at a "good" but not Barry back like Portis, he's fumbled 26 times in 8 years. If I were AP I'd be worried come contract time unless that improves.

You mean butterfingers? And as a Texan isn't it your duty to despise any Sooners past or present?

Yeah, Brees and Manning are both good QBs, I just meant the guy who holds most of the records against the guy most likely to break them next.

I don't think anyone in the playoffs feared San Diego this year. LT is pretty much done and their defence isn't what it once was either. Straight across, I think Indy is the better team. Like any game, if they believe their own hype and don't show up to play for real then they'll lose. NO only won yesterday because of a flag for too many men on the field at the end of regulation. If it wasn't for that we'd be debating the battle of the quarterback titans. But hey, someone always says something about that being why they play the game. Let's see how many other bad football cliches I can fit into this post... The Colts offence needs to take what the Saints defence gives them. The Colts need to want it more than the Saints. They need to play the full 60 minutes. If the Colts offence can get into the endzone and their defence can hold the Saints, they'll win. They have to make plays on both sides of the ball.

This is the same fisheries minister who thinks that the sockeye salmon that didn't return this year might return next year instead. She's a moron who is completely clueless about her own portfolio.

Rick, not sure what the takeaway stat is for them, but the NO defence is ranked 9th out of the 12 teams in the postseason and 25th out of 32 for the regular season in terms of yds/game.

Manning just brings too much. Yesterday the Jets used Revis to take Reggie Wayne out of it, so Manning threw to Garcon and Collie instead. Plus Dallas Clark always seems to be open any time Manning is about to get sacked.

Did you check if the fly is posted on the Eumer site? They have some pretty good videos and step-by-steps: http://www.eumertube.com/tyinginstructions.php

Check out the vid I posted in the Bow Intruders thread. That one is for spinning polar bear, but arctic fox would probably be fairly similar.

So the Colts are 4 point favourites right now. Personally I think that's way too low and expect the Colts will pick apart the Saints' terrible defence. The Colts played way too good yesterday and the Saints only won in overtime because Favre was beat up.

Unless of course if it was dried leaves from a certain green plant that you lost...

Great to put a few more faces to names. Thanks for hosting the rabble Rick. That was a pretty scary mask Brad was wearing...

Just checked my copy. The pattern is almost identical to the one in this link: http://speypages.com/speyclave/showthread.php?t=31417

The title of the post says "Bow Intruders" not "Ed Ward's One True Intruder" (and there were a few other guys involved in creating it including Jerry French and Tucker English), if it's just about semantics. From what I've heard Ed Ward doesn't use deer hair on the intruders he ties any more. Does that mean he isn't tying Ed Ward's Intruders? Maybe we can leave the pedantic semantics of this alone and just see more pictures of intruder-ish flies people fish on the Bow? I know I've seen pics of some nice ones that Silverdoctor ties...

It's just bad advice, particularly the way it's worded. If I send you email with this in it: www.yourbank.com it looks like a link to yourbank.com but it's actually a link to evilphishingsite.com. If you right click the link, select copy link, then paste it into your address bar you get the same result as if you just clicked on the link. In that case you're better off just manually typing the address into your address bar - in this case www.yourbank.com. More importantly, most banks and other companies have thankfully gotten out of the habit of sending links in email. If in doubt, the best thing to do is phone the company or your bank to find out if the email is legit (just don't use any phone numbers included in the email). Better still, just don't click any links you get in email.

Number 2 in the list for avoiding "spear phishing" is incorrect. Right clicking the link, then copying and pasting it into the browser's address bar will still send you to the phishing website.

Here are a few links to tying instructions for "Ed Ward's Intruder". You can see that all three are fairly different... http://www.isomedia.com/homes/celestev/ins...st_intruder.pdf http://www.angelfire.com/wa/salmonid/fly574.html http://speypages.com/speyclave/showthread.php?t=31417

Yeah, I think I understand what you're saying. It's kind of weird, though. I've been using Partridge Czech Nymph hooks which are barbless as well and find my landing rate hasn't changed.

Last time I checked there weren't any requirements for making a fly an "intruder". More than anything I think it's about the shape of the fly and movement in the water. If you go to Speypages and search for "intruder" you'll find lots of flies that have a similar overall look and feel to them, but don't necessarily have the same materials or tying steps. You can tie them on tubes or on shanks with a stinger. I think sometimes we get too hung up on the names of things. Andy, what you've got there is a nice fly that'll catch fish. The fish probably don't care what it's called when they strike it either. Here are some I use on the Bow. I'd list the materials, but honestly I tie every one of them a bit different and I can't remember what's in them. More than likely they include rhea, ostrich, seal dubbing, polar bear, marabou, polar chenille, schlappen, saddle hackles, lady amherst, krystal flash, and/or flashabou. I generally tie mine on size 4 4xl streamer hooks, use 50lb spiderwire and a gamakatsu octopus hook for the trailer.