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Yeah, that way is much easier. Thanks!

Sounds like it's pretty well balanced, but you'll know for sure by the feel of it when you get out and cast.

Which camera? That's some pretty badass macro...

Rick, how do you tie yours? I tied mine based on this tutorial and found it a royal pain in the ass to work with the dacron.

I don't think anyone has said he could be "saved". I don't recall anyone saying that about Richard Reid either and he's rotting in jail for the rest of his life after being tried. I think you'll find that the men and women we have in Afghanistan are fighting against a group (the Taliban) that used to regularly take people to a soccer stadium and publicly execute them without wasting time on a trial. So you're saying that we should have a legal system more like China? Because that would be real progress. Oddly, you seem to want us to become more like those we fight against.

General rule of thumb is that when your reel loaded with line and backing is on the rod it should balance close to the top of the cork, but personal preference plays a big role. If it's still too light but the line fits on the reel, you can always use a bit of lead to add some weight at the reel seat instead of getting another reel.

Interesting idea. My only concern would be if the hopper can slip down the leader at all when a fish is hooked on it.

Upload to Photobucket, Flickr, or some other hosting service. Right click on the full-size version of the pic and select "copy image address". Click the Reply button on the forum, click the button that looks like a landscape picture and paste the address in the pop-up box. All my posted pics are hosted on my MobileMe gallery and don't show up as links.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/bound+Ca...2638/story.html Full outline of the new security measures, including physical searches of every passenger and all their carry-on luggage (now limited to one item per person). Scroll down to the bottom of the story for some frighteningly racist and xenophobic comments from semi-literate Herald readers.

By the way, the new "security" measures are that you can't leave your seat during the last hour of the flight for any reason including using the washroom. For the last hour you can't have anything in your lap either like a blanket, laptop, magazine, book, etc. Am I the only one who sees the huge gaping hole in this logic?

Probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of $450-$500 CDN.

Your check-in luggage gets x-rayed, maybe a dog sniffs it for drugs and/or explosives (more likely drugs), and physically searched at random. Your carry-on luggage - including jacket, hat, shoes, whatever - go through an x-ray machine. You go through a metal detector. At random they'll pull someone out of the line and hand search their luggage as well as pat them down and go over them with the metal detector wand. The only way they'd detect something non-metallic strapped to your leg is by patting you down. Doing that for every passenger that goes through Calgary or Pearson would be ridiculous let alone a really busy airport like Atlanta, Heathrow, LAX, or Frankfurt. There was a story a while back about a test the TSA did. They sent someone through security screening with a bomb in their backpack. Made it through no problem. So they went back to the checkpoint and told them they were testing the effectiveness and that there was a bomb in the backpack. Even knowing that the screener was unable to find the bomb with the x-ray machine.

Security at the airports is only slightly effective at protecting against what has been done before. That's why we have to take off our shoes and throw away our water bottles. Since this guy had the explosives strapped to his leg maybe now we'll have to take off our pants or submit to a full pat down every time. I'm a 25,000+ mile a year air traveller so I'm not looking forward to the "added security measures". http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009...d_security.html

Except that there's no evidence he was born in Afghanistan and the news stories say he's Nigerian. Going down a very dangerous road suggesting something like that - Richard Reid (the shoe bomber) was British...

Thanks for all the info everyone. I went to Fish Tales yesterday and Aaron and Terry showed me some of the ins and outs of the Nor-Vise. Ended up leaving with one and now I'm not sure why I waited so long. Like Din said there are some things I have to learn to do differently but I can also see that once you figure those things out it's really efficient.

You could just point and laugh at everyone who left their shopping to the last minute...

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First attempt at a MOAL leech.

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Orvis Rocky Mountain 9' 6wt - this was my only rod from 1991 until a few years ago. Then I got the sickness... TFO TiCR 9' 6wt Sage FLi 9' 5wt Sage FLi 9' 8wt Beulah 11'6" 6/7 Beulah 10'6" 5/6 Snowbee 13' 8/9 Loop Goran Andersson 12'6" 9wt Loop Opti Stream 9' 4wt Loop Opti Coast 9'6" 7wt Echo Dec Hogan 12'2" 5wt Echo Dec Hogan 11'9" 4wt Loop Opti Creek 8'2" 2wt Loop Goran Andersson 12' 6wt Greys StreamFlex 10' 3wt Loop AEG 9' 5wt Sage Z-Axis 9' 5wt Sage Z-Axis 12'6" 5wt Sage Xi2 9' 11wt Sage 99 6wt

Ah, I get it now. I thought you were adding the counterbalance to the front hub somehow. Ray, I'm ballparking based on prices I saw locally - so CDN$ plus I figured in the GST. Probably a little less than $600 overall, but damn close enough to make me pause

Oddly this isn't the first time I've heard that about the Nor-Vise. Badger, how did you counterbalance the arm on the fine point jaws? I tie 99% of my nymphs on scud hooks, so if the regular jaws don't work well with them that's another thing I need to take into consideration. The conversion kits seem to be pretty pricey too. Looks like the vise, bobbin, some spools, and conversion kit would be running close to $600 altogether.

I'm almost certain that I'm going to replace my Renzetti with a Nor-Vise. I've heard lots of the pros of using a Nor-vise from various people, but what I want to hear are the downsides. What are the things that it doesn't do quite as well as a more standard vise like my Renzetti? I'm already aware of the annoyance of having to put your thread on the automatic bobbin spools or buying an Ekich bobbin ($$$) instead, and to be honest that's almost a deal breaker for me. I tie everything from size 18 trout flies to big intruder-style streamers.

Heh, I just posted the same thing in this thread: http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?showtopic=9752 Sure would be nice to have a fisheries minister who actually knows something about those things with scales that live in the water. What are they called again? Moldy Chum nailed it...

Sadly, it seems like the federal gov't isn't going to do anything to help the sockeye any time soon if our moronic fisheries minister is any indication... http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/BC-Politic...15/SockeyeShea/