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Heh, I read three of those four in the last month. Maybe I'll have to check out Old Man's War next. For fishing books, anything by John Gierach, Roderick Haig-Brown, and Thomas McGuane.

Yup. Already trying to figure out when I can make it down there again. Just ordered a 10 foot 3wt from Southbow today that should hopefully be in my hands by the weekend...

If you're just starting fly tying the Flytyer's Benchside Intro is really good as well, though the Benchside Reference is more complete. The Intro book has a bunch of patterns with instructions and techniques for tying them. I have both and they're the only two tying books I'd never do without.

I think that's because every time I had one on you were running to low hole me instead of taking a pic

A few more from the day... Head of run hogging Hole jumping Low holing And just for Bobloblaw

That looks a lot like the guy who low holed me on the Crow today...

Wait, what?

Ha, well I know which rod I can expect to see you using on Saturday. This is almost begging for "list your rods" and "list your reels" threads...

Who cares? Center pinning is as much a "cousin" to fly fishing as spin fishing is since in each case you're using a rod and line to deliver some sort of lure to a fish. Fish how you want and as long as it's legal, screw what anyone else thinks.

Country Pleasures, West Winds, and Bow River Troutfitters all carry Simms last I checked. Since none of them are in the north I'd call to check availability/sizes before making the drive.

Don't fruit the beer.

Run away and don't look back. TFO has horrible quality control from what I've seen with my own eyes. A rack full of supposed 9' rods that varied up to a couple inches in length. Guides spaced apart at varying distances from one rod to the next. Misaligned guides. I hear lots of stories about TFO rods breaking, yet I don't hear that about any other rods. Like you pointed out, you could've bought a "premium" rod for the price of you TFO plus the $100 in warranty. Eventually you'll have yourself a $600 TFO rod.

I heard it was an allergic reaction to eating 12 year old nuts. Count me among those not shedding tears for a pederast.

Sweet looking trailer. http://www.simmsfishing.com/site/gallery/g...;media_id=00066

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/An...2864/story.html

Two quick points - snow in the city doesn't equate to snow in the mountains (snowpack) and we didn't actually get a ton of snow, but rather the colder temps kept what we did get around longer. http://environment.alberta.ca/forecasting/...9/overview.html Mountain snowpack Bow River basin: below to much below average except slightly below average in the Highwood River basin. At 3 out of 5 locations upstream of Banff, snow accumulations rank from third to fifth lowest in generally 25 to 30 years of record.

This is what I do even on rods that have a hook keeper.

Isn't that the same thing? NOTE: The above statement was a joke and not meant to offend anyone from Saskatchewan. Please address any complaints to steadyeddy@alberta.ca

I've heard more than a few people say that there likely won't be any real runoff this year for a number of reasons - lower snow pack in the mountains, cool spring, not much rain. I also recall reading an article last month saying that we were in for a hot, dry summer. So the question is, what does that mean for our rivers and the summer? I've always thought of runoff as flushing the toilet on the rivers. It usually gets rid of a lot of the garbage, weeds, and didymo. Lower water levels combined with a hot, dry summer also doesn't bode well for fish in a lot of the smaller streams. Thoughts?

Yeah, I saw one group pull their lifejackets off as soon as they passed under the 22x bridge on Saturday. Guess they figured there wouldn't be anyone else checking between there and the city limit.

I've had the two wrap surgeon's fail when going mono to fluoro both when hung up on bottom and on fish. I was told to use a four wrap surgeon's instead and found it too bulky as well. Now I'll just use mono to my first fly then fluoro from the first fly to the other two. Otherwise I stick with all mono or all fluoro.

I'll bet the First Nations members think the same thing about you and your favourite singer...

In the past couple of weeks I've been playing around with throwing line into my D loops on single-hand spey casts. Usually the situation is that I'm nymphing fairly close in with the single hander and during the course of my drift I've stripped part of the head of my line into the rod. Rather than letting line out again before casting, I've been letting go of the line for just a second as I'm forming the D. The first time I did it was purely by accident as my finger holding the line down slipped, but it worked ok. I haven't been able to throw too much line into it because then my D loop ends up hitting the water. I can't do it consistently yet, but when it works it's great. Haven't tried it at all with a two-handed rod yet either, but I can't see where the situation would arise for me that I would need to with a skagit or scandi head. Maybe it would be useful with a mid-spey or long belly line. Anyone else tried this out and have any consistency to it? So far I'm going purely by the feel of the rod loading to know when I've thrown enough line into the D.

For single hand spey all you want to have outside of the rod tip is the head of the line. If you need more distance learn how to shoot line rather than go with more line outside the rod tip and it'll make things much easier. Sorry for the hijack. I used to use the SA GPX and quite liked it. Now all my single handers have Loop Opti lines on them, but they're a bit pricier.

Ditto.