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  1. I just bought a pair of regular G3 Guides back in June. I was a bit afraid of dropping almost $500 on waders considering I fish in places where the bush is pretty heavy. Well, needless to say they stood up to the test and passed with flying colors. If you're a bit careful bushwacking , crossing fences,crawling over rocks/logs etc., these are great waders. Very comfortable and worth every dollar spent. Go to the Simms main page and read the reviews on each.

  2. Read Bob Scammell's book The Phenological Fly. Wild roses mean golden stones, most of the wild roses are finished blooming for the year.Being the Freeman in the Swan Hills, I'd guess you probably missed it by 1-2 weeks. It also depends on elevation, the goldens hatch late July through early August in the high country. It's pretty much hit and miss when you chase stoneflies.

  3. Sorry mistake on my part 100-150 ppm was supposed to be 150 to 1000 ppm 1000 being instant death. This is why you should not watch tv and type ha ha. Distracted typing could be a new one

    Just a bit of a correction to this point...1000ppm does not mean instant death. You will lose consciousness immediately, in fact this will happen at 700ppm. Your body will shut down and you'll have to be rescued and revived within 4 to 6 minutes. Just a little info, the word was that the concentration of H2S in the pipeline was 1%...1% = 10,000ppm.

  4. so with an expected newborn on the way this November, im totally excited but i feel that i wont get that much time to put into fishing the river. as last year i fished almost once or twice a week even during winter

     

    So how did you guys convince the ball in chain that you deserve time to go fishing rather than changing some diapers?

    Good luck, I hate to tell you this but your fishing is going to be put on the back burner for quite a while. When my 2 kids were born I was lucky to get out once or twice a whole season. Your priorities need to be set and unfortunatly fishing is not one of them right now.

  5. It is a pain in the ass. I had this done to the 68 Camaro in my avatar, an original BC car that's now street legal and registered here. A freind did most of the work on it, and his friend did the inspection. If I remember correctly, the friend charged me $900 for labour to make it road worthy (was an old bracket racing car) and the inspection was around $300. It had to go back twice,and was missing 1 small item the second time. The mechanic passed it anyway which was lucky for me. If they're interested in keeping their licenses, they usually won't let anything slide.

  6. I don't get the "extinct for 50 years" thing. I remember, and I do have on tape somewhere, an episode of Fishing The West with Larry Schoenborn. It would have been from the 80s and they were at Pyramid Lake catching these things. Now I have to dig through my old VHS collection and find this episode.

  7. The law states that there has to be a PFD for every person in the boat but like Robert said, they do absolutly nothing if they aren't worn. Who in their right mind thinks that a person will have the composure to retrive and put on a PFD if the boat capsises, especially if they can't swim. This so called "law" has to change.

  8. looks like a crowsnest bow wandered up another resivoir stream looking too spawn....

     

    That may be correct. I've caught quite a few rainbows out of that river (if that background in the2nd picture is where I think it is), that are far more silvery in color than that beast. Beautiful fish by the way.

  9. Made it out for my 3rd trip of the year. Being a new dad really cuts into my fishing time but I have no complaints. Despite the heat had a great day with about 10 browns to hand. My only competition was the family of 4 otters and a Blue Heron that seemed content to always keep one pool ahead of me. Here's a few pics from the day...

     

    Beautiful sunny day didn't seem to bother the browns alot

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    Fished stimulators with bead head pheasant tail droppers, ratio was about 50/50

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    This little guy saw his life flash before his eyes. Just as I was about to net him a huge brown emerged from the depths and thought he had an easy lunch. I've heard of bulls doing this but there was no point tying on a streamer to try to catch him. Once he saw me he was done for the day.

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    This guy taped out at about 16". He was pretty scarred up but was a strong fish. Looked like either an otter or a pike tried to take a bite out of him. Note the heron tracks in the sand.

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  10. Nice shots. Just got a new monitor today and your shots popped out well. :)

    The pool near that boulder in the 2nd last pic in the 2nd set is a doozie. Head back in late Sept and you'll find a couple - few dozen fish. Really nice water. Doesn't look as good as it really is. :)

     

     

    I've only fished this river once before but I remember that boulder and the pool right by it. There are some nice ones in there for sure.

  11. No Bud Light Lime for weeks here in Calgary. Big Rock jumped on the bandwagon and had record sales with their Lime lager and filling in for BLL. As a former Big Rock rep in the old days it is sad that since they went public they have moved in to mainstream style beers and away from the craft beers.

    Back to Bud Light Lime, I betcha it has been stockpiled for weeks and will saturate the city during Stampede!!

     

    That's the story I got from the liquor stores in Innisfail. I just bought regular Bud light and put some lime in it. Think I'm cured of that for a while. Good old Pil is #1 in my books anyway.

  12. I hate to say this but Horcoff's not going anywhere, at least not this season. No team is going to pick up his 7 million dollar contract (way to go Mr. Lowe). At the end of the season when he gets his usual 20 goals then he can go. He'll need at least 80 points to justify that kind of money and I don't think he has it in him. By the way, who give a crap how many Cups a coach has won? Look at how many Mac T won and where it got his team.

  13. Always makes me laugh when Flames fans call out Edmonton for living in the past. I've never been to a City that lives more in the past than Calgary does. They still have the sign for the '89 Olympics up for cryin out loud.

     

    Not to mention, three coaches in three years.......kinda makes you wonder if its the coaches leading them to first round exits, or if the players are just living up to thier mediocrity.

     

     

    That was the 1988 Olympics by the way. You forgot to mention their ONE Stanley Cup in 1986.

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