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October 31st according to the Alberta Parks site. http://tpr.alberta.ca/parks/fishcreek/servfac.asp

Uh oh, I think I hear a wolfie about to howl...

Excellent point - parents aren't always to blame. And nobody knows the whole background. Maybe this school cop has been harassing the kid regularly. There are cops out there who can be assholes (just like anyone else) and I doubt they assign their best officers to school duty. At the same time I doubt a lot of cops are thrilled about being pulled away from other duty to babysit a school. Maybe this one is just a bully who has a few easy targets he picks on all the time. Everyone has a breaking point, and maybe this kid reached his. I'm not saying any of this is the case, but everyone is always so quick to judge without knowing the whole story.

I don't think a rating system for guides would work very well. Just because I get along with a guide doesn't necessarily mean someone else will and vice versa. Also, how many guides will get poor ratings because the client had unrealistic expectations about size and number of fish they expect to catch?

None of the "advertising stories" in The Drake. Mostly essays that make you want to fish or remind you why you do.

A review of Rio's new Skagit Flight line: http://blog.deneki.com/2009/10/rio-skagit-flight-review.html Sounds a little too close to the Airflo Compact Skagit (of which I already have a few) for me to spend any money on.

I don't think so since the mods usually edit the post with a message. Looks more like the links to the pics are wrong. They're great fish and both being handled properly. You can see the water dripping off them in the pics. Congrats on the nice bulls.

You could try contacting the shops in Calgary and see if they'll do a phone or email order and ship it to you. Edit: Fish Tales and Country Pleasures both have an online store on their websites. That might work for you.

A single market is not a statistically valid sample to make the sweeping statements about Sage's marketing practices that you did though.

Those rates are only from DIA to various parts of the city if I recall correctly. Going to the airport or within various points in the city is metered. But yeah, I've had a driver there try to pull that on me. When he turned on the meter I asked what he was doing since it was a flat rate. He pretended it was an accident and turned it back off.

I travel A LOT for work and have taken taxis in more cities than I care to count. Every city I've been in has livery laws that require rates to be posted, whether meter rates or zonal fares, which is why cabs all have those stickers in the windows. The fact that you and your friends were charged different prices for the same trip really says to me that either both of them were freelancing or at least one of the drivers was dishonest. I'd call the Edmonton Vehicle for Hire Commission and report it.

Report them. Airport Taxi Services is not licensed to pick up passengers within the Edmonton city limits according to their own website. Sounds like someone freelancing.

The best is at the grocery store when there are long lines at all the registers and they open another one. Demolition derby time.

Asked a fly shop owner about this today and there is zero truth to it. They would like shops to carry the full line (which company wouldn't?) but don't require them to. Bingo! Even without the internet though, I think just about every major rod manufacturer and lots of the smaller ones can be found in retail stores in Calgary. Amundson, Beulah, Echo, Guideline, Grey's, Loomis, Loop, Orvis, Redington, Sage, Scott, Snowbee, TFO, Thomas & Thomas, Winston. If Sage is keeping other rod companies out of fly shops they aren't doing a very good job of it.

The Drake. It only comes out twice a year, but it's well worth the wait. No product reviews, no recycled casting articles, just lots of well written articles and essays. Here's a sample of one of their articles. After reading it I stopped buying all the other mags because I realized that they were all crap. The only good thing about Fly Fusion is McLennan's Water Marks. In my opinion.

Way to keep flogging that dead horse.

I think they were both trying to pick up the same fare... (nobody was hurt so it's ok to laugh)

And some form of insurance - liability, etc.

How's that cast doing? Get lots of fishing in the last couple months? I bet it gets really itchy like ants crawling around in there. And you can't even scratch it...

http://flyfishcalgary.com/catch_and_release.php http://www.albertaregulations.ca/fishingre...onreleasingfish Pretty much anything you read on catch and release will say not to touch the gills. No different than someone reaching down your trachea and poking their fingers in your lungs.

I know exactly what you mean. There's this really old Texan I talk to about fishing...oh, wait.

Try going out with only a fly box full of streamers and concentrate only on fishing them - no nymphing or dries that day. Look into getting some sink tips to help keep your streamer down in the current. Vary your retrieve. Try letting the streamer swing all the way to the dangle then strip it in and try stripping during the swing. Also try stripping slow and steady, then quick and jerky. Just change things around until you find what the fish want that day. There are a couple of good threads in the Ask the Pros section on fishing streamers that you should check out. Also keep in mind that fishing streamers isn't a numbers game, but when you get takes on them it isn't like anything else...

Exactly! Had this happen when I was catching on dries and the gear guys asked me what I was taking them on because they weren't having any luck.

West Winds stopped carrying TFO. Gord still has a few old ones left on the rack but he isn't bringing them in any more. He only carries Sage and T&T I think, but not full lines of either brand. Country Pleasures has never carried TFO either.