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Rick, if I were your 12 year old daughter there would be all kinds of other things wrong with that!

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It varies. I saw Blade Runner in the theatre when it first came out, so I would've been 10 at the time. Still one of my favourite movies.

Battlestar Galactica was the best sci fi in recent years and a great example of how to relaunch something the right way. Might be a little too much for a 12 year old, though.

The guy that played McCoy was perfect, the new Spock was pretty good, but the new Chekhov was damn annoying. The rest were meh, though Uhura is hot. Wasn't impressed by the story (wow, time travel in a Star Trek story - how inspired) or anything else about it really. And I'm not a big Star Trek fan, so it isn't like I'm some geek who's upset by the changes they made.

I've seen Distance and Delicacy and Cracking the Code. Pretty decent videos, but as I've said before - Henrik's fish handling makes me shudder. After thinking about it, I realized that the main reason I was disappointed with Skagit Master was that I was looking for something a little more intermediate to advanced. The best part in the video was him doing some improvised casts around obstacles in the water.

I really liked this entry too. http://www.drakemag.com/videos/2009-films/242-slam

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalwe...mate_scien.html http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archi...1/the-cru-hack/

Yes because Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh are so much more credible and trustworthy.

Have to agree. I think it's partly because the production quality is dismal compared to the Rio video. When he started using the pizza plate and straw to demonstrate the casting plane I actually laughed out loud. About half an hour of the two hours is useful.

Did a head to head comparison today with the Rio Skagit Flight and Airflo Compact Skagit on a Z-Axis 5126. The Rio was 425 grains and the Airflo was 420. Used a 15 foot Rio type 3 tip on both and a couple feet of 10lb Maxima. The Flight doesn't turn over big flies as well as the Compact but I was able to get around the same distance out of both heads.

Tried one today and I liked it.

I recently switched my SJW hooks for the same reason. I use either the Dai-Riki 700B or the Daiichi 1870. The 1870 is my preference and I haven't poked any eyes or brained any smaller fish since I started using them.

Head down to Fish Creek Park. Lots of decent fishing around there and you'll probably run into other fly fishers. Like gottalovecutts said watch where they're fishing and try talking to them. Most people you meet on the river are happy to help a new guy.

It's been a long time since I took any economics courses, but I believe this is true of steel and lumber. Not sure about oil. We export steel to the US and buy it back as a Ford or export lumber to say Sweden and buy it back as Ikea furniture. Don't know if those are valid examples, but they illustrate the point. This factors in to our trade deficit or surplus. If we import more than we export, then we run a trade deficit and a trade surplus is the opposite. Earlier this year we posted our first trade deficit since 1976. This doesn't make us a third world country. That's based on the human development index and other factors. Canada ranks as one of the most developed countries in the world according to that index.

I think if you're just starting out you would want to try as many different lines as you can and determine which you prefer. I've cast long bellies, mids, scandis, and skagits. For my fishing I prefer skagit for sink tips and scandi for floating work. At the end of the day it's about getting the fly in front of the fish and enjoying yourself while doing it no matter what kind of line or rod you're using.

Yup, leave it be and let nature take its course. Leave the biomass in the river. There's also a chance it made a meal for another fish.

Ah, if anyone was ever deserving of a tasing or face full of mace it's these morons.

What were you disgusted about exactly? I was there a couple times over the summer and didn't see anything repugnant.

Got my Greys Streamflex at South Bow. Nice rod, good price. Don't know how it compares to a G series though.

Heh, I totally threw that in there to see who'd notice. I have an Ugly Stik gathering dust in the closet and did troll bait in the Pacific a week ago. Not ashamed to admit it.

West Winds had 4 or 5 copies in stock when I stopped by today.

Same reason that every rod thread turns into "my rod is better than your rod". Seriously, I think it's just because everyone wants to think their stuff is the best (because why wouldn't they have bought the best?) and loves their stuff so much they want everyone else to love it as much. I'll bet it happens on every other forum out there: Chevy vs Ford, LCD vs plasma, Mac vs PC, Shimano vs Berkley, etc.

I think I have a solution for this: 1. Purchase flies 2. Purchase bottle of head cement 3. Apply head cement to purchased flies 4. Lose fly on bottom/fish/tree long before it would've fallen apart without the head cement

Thanks for the info. I'm not interested in it myself, just trying to help a friend sell some stuff.