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Try sending a pm to CDone. He does a lot of that sort of work.

Could be that the hard drive cable has come loose so now the BIOS is trying to boot from a network drive.

Nah, the second job interferes with the time to play with all your toys. Just start selling your other stuff to pay for it - golf clubs, tv, stereo, house, etc.

If they're sitting in a spot for a long time the blame doesn't necessarily go to the guide. Any time I've been out with a guide they've asked me if I want to keep fishing a spot or move on. I find most of the guides on the Bow (at least that I've run into) to be pretty decent. Just last weekend a drift boat came around a blind corner to find me fishing. As soon as the guide saw me he asked his clients to put their lines on the other side of the boat, apologized to me, then did his best to go through with minimal disturbance to the run.

I use a pair of Oakley Half Jackets. The lenses pop out easily so I have a pair of grey ones I use for bright days and yellow ones for low light. The other good thing is that if you scratch up the lenses you can just replace them instead of buying a whole new pair. They're >$200 a pair though and replacement lenses are $100, so if you lose sunglasses or scratch them often this isn't the way to go. Oakley also has a fishing-specific line of sunglasses/lenses, but I haven't seen them in any stores around town.

Fisknat makes some larger nets with rubber bags. If you're looking for something really big you could check into a cradle, but those aren't as easy to carry. You might be better off tailing the fish if they're that big.

Picked up my skagit compact today. Tried to get some of the SA shooting line but nobody in the city seems to carry it, though I could special order it or order online. Being the patient sort I picked up the Airflo Ridge shooting line instead For the Beulah I think I'm going to play around with a 7/8/9 Windcutter Versitip on it. If I use just the belly with a tip it might work. The Airflo Compact Skagit I was casting on it before was 420 grains, so it should be ok.

I was casting a couple of these heads on my Loop Goran 9126 and a Beulah 11'6 6/7 yesterday. On the Goran I was able to cast the 510 grain head as easily as my 600 grain Rio Skagit only with slightly more finesse. I had been considering selling my Beulah 6/7, but instead I'm going to replace the Elixir line with one of these and keep it. Toolman, how are you finding the Ridge running lines? I got to play with the new SA monocore shooting lines and was really impressed by them.

Gotta be your biggest catch yet. Did you get a really good hook set?

It's mostly just the taper of the single hand line I don't like. I find the head length is too long for my purposes, and if I want to cast long distances I'll use my two-hander or switch rod to accomplish that with less effort. I think there'll be a market for the Sharkskin running lines. People who want something that shoots better than a regular line but don't want the tangles associated with certain mono running lines in cold water. I also find mono to be hard on my fingers when stripping it in, but I'm not sure if Sharkskin will be better or worse.

The Bow can be a tough river to learn on in the best of conditions. When I started out I was ready to pack it in because it seemed I could never catch a fish there. Then I started fishing the Highwood and other smaller streams and was catching fish more consistently each time out. Hone your skills on smaller rivers, then bring those skills to the Bow. If you can, take Samuraifly and Harps suggestion to check out the Sexyloops lesson.

Just a heads up if you haven't already heard - word is that SA will be releasing Sharkskin running lines. Not a big fan of the taper on the single hand lines, but the running lines could be interesting. Might be time to buy a stripping glove...

Watch your back cast - I mean actually look back at your line during your back cast. You're possibly starting your forward cast too soon resulting in tailing loops, which often cause tangles. You can try nymphing without an indicator as well. Swinging nymphs can be pretty effective and some people don't use indicators at all. You might miss some fish while you learn to feel the hits, but once you get the hang of it you'll just know when to set the hook. There's also nothing wrong with casting a single nymph until your cast gets better. Get the hang of casting the one nymph, then add an indicator, then add a second and third fly or something like that. Every thing you have on your leader - flies, shot, indicator - adds complexity to the equation, so start simple and work your way up.

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Maybe they're using sinking scandi lines or shooting heads? The Loop Opti Adapted shooting heads come in a few different sink rates http://www.looptackle.com/website1/1.0.1.0/392/1/index.php

A comfortable pair of waders and boots. If you aren't comfortable in the waders you won't last long in the water. If the boots aren't comfortable to walk in you won't want to cover distance to get to some of the good fishing spots that are more than 50 feet from a parking lot. On the non-gear side, invest in casting lessons. Watching a video or reading a book doesn't compare to live instruction on the water. Once you have some casting basics down, you may want to book some time with a guide who can show you some decent places to fish. Fish Creek park is a pretty popular place to get your feet wet without driving or walking too far. There are usually a lot of other fly fishers out there as well and most will answer any questions and give you some pointers if you ask nice. Keep in mind that the Bow isn't necessarily the easiest river for a beginner to get into fish, though...

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24909 Scroll down to the 9th post for pics of the new Marquis. They look pretty much like the old ones to me, except I guess they don't say Made in England on them.

Did anyone else know this week is National Fishing Week? Canada AM just had something about it (with a pro bass guy and no mention of fly fishing of course).

Don't trust system recovery. If the system is still fairly clean (as in no data stored on it) reformat and reinstall clean. If you only have one computer for your company you don't necessarily need a file server. You can do standalone, but get a second hard drive identical to the one you have and set up disk mirroring (RAID 1). Both drives will have all the same data, so if one fails you can just pull it out and run off the other. It'll be a little slower when you write to it, but the read times will be a little faster. Ideally you would have a separate drive with your operating system and programs installed on it and the mirrored pair of drives only containing your data files. Any decent techie should be able to set that up in no time flat. That would also cover your third redundancy. Techies disagreeing about which hardware is best is kind of like us disagreeing on which fly rod is best. I've seen a lot of drives from a certain manufacturer fail within a year, so I'll never buy another or recommend them. A friend of mine has had way better luck with that same brand of drives so he swears by them. It's just one of those things I guess....

When I used to do tech support I always advised people to do a test restore with their backups about once a month or any time they modified the backup parameters to make sure it was working properly. I know that's little consolation now, but a good habit to get into for the future. Could it be that the empty drive you're looking at is the new one and the old one isn't connected properly? They may have installed the new drive as a master and not switched the jumper on the old drive to make it a slave. Or the old drive may not be connected at all. If it is the old drive that's empty the data should be recoverable with a program like the one birchy suggested unless they did a secure erase of the entire drive or something.

What about trying a Loop Opti or Multi single hand line on it? I use them on my single hand rods to do double spey and snap t casts all the time. They have shorter heads and bigger bellies than most single handed lines with a colour change between the head and running line so you know how far to strip it in before casting. If your friend decides double handed rods and spey casting aren't for him, the lines still work great for overhead casting so he won't have wasted his money.

Try doing a search, the same question has been asked before. It's like asking what the best rod/reel/car/truck/etc. is. You'll get at least one suggestion for almost every brand of waders on the market - Simms, Patagonia, Cloudveil, Wardell, Dan Bailey, and so on. Here's the last thread on waders http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?showtopic=4048

Heh, I had some of that on yesterday and they were still dive bombing me and buzzing around my face and trying to get me through my shirt. Didn't get bit, but the smell of that stuff gives me a headache after a while.

Saw this entertaining article about people who cheat in fishing derbies and thought I'd share. Reeling in the cheats

Here's an old article on lunar cycles and bass fishing http://www.in-fisherman.com/magazine/artic...0602_BitsLunar/ Wouldn't be surprised if it affects trout and other species as well . At the very least a full moon gives you more light to fish those late night hatches