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Tried them for the first time Sunday, sweet boots. Solid!

I just got some but have yet to try them. My old Korkers Guides finaly packed in after 3 hard years so I expect the Chrome to be as good and hopefully better.

Hi Kyle, I would bring at least a 3wt or 2wt if you have one as every piece of water up there will have at least grayling. They are a blast to catch and will rise to flies all day long. I lived in the Yukon for over 20yrs and worked in that particular area for 3 years. I'll see if I can dig up some more info for you and pass it on. What's the date of your trip? Cheers, Paul

Excellent news, great work!!

I know what you mean, that happened to me a couple mornings ago. Got up nice and early to get first crack at a run I wanted to fish. Got there at 4:15am met up with my buddy. Started working upstream and getting some good action. 45mins later a guy walks past me says hi and starts casting 30ft upstream from where I was fishing. I couldn't belive it. Thought about leapfrogging him and doing the same thing but instead we went to the other side and had an awesome morning with many fish landed.

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The last couple of years I have started using the Inflatable Belt Pack PFD by Mustang in the winter and at times in the summer when I know I'll be doing a lot of stream/river crossings. That said I try to fish with a partner and if the hair on the back of your neck starts to stand up it's a sign to move off.

Pretty good year, highlight was a personal best 25" Brown on the Bow in July and the fact I was only skunked 3 times on the Bow in 30+ days which for me is something I'm quite happy with.

I love caribou, the meat tastes fantastic. It's been some time since I have seen pictures of them, it brings back many good hunting memories with my father in the Yukon as a kid. Thanks for that.

Haaahaaa, sweet!! Good job!

Awesome pictures, very nice fish!

If you like fishing the Wigwam you may want to check this out. http://elkriver.ca/river-reports/kootneay-...at-do-you-think I think they should just leave it alone. Thoughts?

Hello All The federal government has released their proposed Federal Pacific Aquaculture Regulations with a sixty-day public input period. These regulations role back the safe-guards we have in British Columbia to prevent heavy industrialization and privatization of the coast at the expense of our communities. Once these regulations pass there will be no further public input on how each salmon feedlot licence is written, how many wild fish they can take and what diseases they must report. The federal licences will be issued without First Nation or other consultation and can be expanded without an environmental assessment. I feel there has to be enormous response or else we all lose, even the people working in the industry, because no retailer is going to want to be in possession of a seafood product authorized to “Harmfully Alter, Disrupt and Destroy” parts of the North Pacific. Oddly these regulations will not apply to the east coast of Canada, where the Minister of Fisheries resides. There are several options for you to act by the deadline September 12: • See my letter below/attached which interprets the proposed regs and provides a direct link to them • write to Ed Porter who is accepting public input PAR-RPA@dfo-mpo.gc.ca • Sign the petition http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl...jEzRnc6MQ#gid=0 You can see my presentation on the strong correlation between disease in salmon feedlots and decline of Fraser sockeye "What's New" http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/ I know it is very hard to react to everything that comes at us, so I have tried to make this easy for you. However, I can’t turn this looming disaster, it requires each and everyone of you and your friends and family. Please pass the petition to all you know. To stay up to date please frequent www.salmonaresacred.org I will let you know how many people have signed. Volunteers are hosting events throughout BC this summer to link all of us together and this information will be posted. The T-shirts left from the migration are on my website www.alexandramorton.ca and proceeds go to this effort. The Get Out Migration brought thousands of people together, but government does not want to hear from our communities nor of our need for good health in our environment and our bodies. Clearly there needs to be more public response. That is all that is required to fix this. I will continue to push for protection for salmon feedlot workers, as this is a government mistake and they need not bear the cost of this to our coast. I think we will have a good Fraser sockeye run this summer and that should tell us the ocean and the river are still highly capable of feeding this coast! This generation of sockeye has shown one of the least declines and we need to investigate why this run is good and the others have failed so badly. If we allow government to let salmon feedlot companies hide their disease outbreaks this investigation will be incomplete. If there is no salmon feedlot disease problem, there should be no reason for secrecy. Hundreds of people have said “I am behind you Alex,” but this is not working. We have to stand shoulder to shoulder, where we are all peacefully and strongly visible. This is the only way to save ourselves and our planet. Alexandra Morton July 28, 2010 Ed Porter, Team Leader, Regulatory Operations Fisheries and Oceans Canada PAR-RPA@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Dear Mr. Ed Porter: I am responding to the 60-day public comment opportunity on the proposed Federal Pacific Aquaculture Regulations http://www.gazette.gc.ca/cg-gc/about-sujet-eng.html (left column “Part I Notices and Proposed Regulations” Vol. 144, No. 28, page 1933). When BC Supreme Court ruled that the federal government must take over regulation of salmon feedlots, the intent was to bring the industry into compliance with the Constitution of Canada. But what Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are trying to do instead is remove safeguards established by previous governments and open the door to privatizing the ocean, which is prohibited by the Canadian Constitution. With his document Harper not only licences massive ecological damage, he depreciates the market value of BC feedlot salmon. No reputable retailer can afford to be seen with a seafood product raised under a licence to “harm, alter, disrupt and destroy” the ocean. The federal licences will be issued without consultation with First Nations. “Increasingly stringent international standards are driving seafood importing nations to require Canada to certify health (disease) status, not just food safety, of live aquatic animals and their products. … Canada cannot meet these standards, and is facing increasing challenges to export market access. Canada is already subject to a lesser market access than the United States, Europe ...“ http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2009/200...l/reg1-eng.html Canadian pathologists warn against holding millions of diseased salmon in pens (Traxler et al. 1993) and the graph below demonstrates the reason. There is a strong correlation between salmon feedlot epidemics and the declining Fraser sockeye. This must be examined, but the provincial government is stonewalling release of salmon feedlot disease records and Harper is stepping in to help. These draft regulations ignore the International (OIE) and the Canadian Food and Health Inspection Agency standards by exempting salmon feedlots from full disease reporting. Harper is not only offering Norwegian companies the right to leave infected salmon in the water, he is protecting them from liability. If government and the industry are willing to throw away premium market value for disease secrecy we are warned this is a dangerous and strong priority. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is also offering these Norwegian companies blanket authorization for “Harmful Alteration, Disruption or Destruction” of fish habitat (Section 35(1) Fisheries Act). This ignores the value of the oceans to communities across British Columbia. Oddly, these rules will not apply to eastern Canada, where the Minister of Fisheries resides. Harper is going to legalize destruction of wild fish that become trapped in the pens, attracted by the bright lights and food in the water. There are no surplus wild fish and so this by-catch will compete with fishing quotas. Many feedlots are in rock cod conservation areas where fishermen are not allowed, but the feedlots will continue trapping unknown amounts. This is bad management and will affect herring, sable fish, salmon, lingcod and other important wild fish. The federal Conservatives are proposing salmon feedlot licences be granted and amended without environmental assessment. This violates strong public demand for healthy coastal waters, but neatly resolves the irreconcilable issue of dumping over a ton/day/site of industrial waste into salmon habitat. These are the only feedlots that never have to shovel manure and chemical waste as it flows conveniently into public waters. It is dangerous to humanity, (risking food security, drug resistance, disease mutation) to allow feedlots to contaminate natural environments with disease. Feedlots remove all the natural disease control mechanisms and thus allow viruses to mutate, multiply and jump to new species. Because Mr. Harper is proposing to remove standards designed to protect the ocean from Norwegian feedlots, retailers like COSTCO will have to decide if their mission statements honor government or their customers. Promising to “Exceed ecological standards required in every community where we do business,” is meaningless if there are no ecological standards. Salmon feedlots are an “ecology of bad ideas,” struggling to control disease with drugs, corrupting the foodchain by using warm-blooded animal products, plants and fish from the southern hemisphere as feed, displacing local businesses, turning a public resource into a corporate commodity with no public access, dyeing their fish pink to resemble salmon. If jobs were the goal, the federal Conservatives and BC Liberals would be working with the BC companies developing sustainable land-based aquaculture to create a viable, world-class product. Instead Mr. Harper is proposing to change the laws of Canada to allow unchecked pollution by a 92% Norwegian-owned industry associated wild salmon declines worldwide. Wild salmon are thriving everywhere this industry does not exist (Alaska, Iceland, western Pacific, areas of BC). These proposed regulations are a signpost. If this was about fish, attention would have been paid to the market value of the product. Instead it risks one of the last naturally producing salmon regions in the world for a depreciating commodity. What these draft regulations do is clear away legislation established to protect Canadians and our coast from industrialization and privatization. Ed Porter, the proposed Federal Pacific Aquaculture Regulations do not protect the interests of Canadians or the world and must not be adopted. Sincerely, Alexandra Morton The Fraser sockeye decline began at the same time government failed to cull millions of IHN virus infected feedlot salmon on the Fraser River migration routes. Government ignored federal scientists who state infected Atlantic salmon should not be permitted in pens (Traxler et al 1993). The federal government also ignored warnings from their scientists that would have saved the North Atlantic cod. When the cod went extinct the Hibernia Oil wells appeared on the Grand Banks – the most generous food-producing area humanity will ever have was exchanged for oil. ------ End of Forwarded Message

I fished the Coeur d'Alene river a few years ago for small cutts and had a great time. Saw a larger fish move through a pool from a ledge but was not sure what it was. I think there are RB's and Bulls there as well. Think of a river similar to the Oldman and that's what it's like. Very nice and lots of river access from a road that runs along it . Good luck. PAV

I just got a pair of Simms G3 convertables and they are awesome. I have a feeling I will not be extending them very often as I find that I do not wade past my waist that much. Looking forward to floating with them in the next few weeks. You should look at them as they still have the same bomb proof material on the legs as the reg G3's and the fit is great. P.

Very nice, you need a bigger net.

Thanks Weedy, that's good information.

Very nice,.. how is it in low light conditions?

Awesome trout Drew! Good job!

I can only speak from experience but my PAC 900 has been a very good boat and I know a few other's with same boat but with 7-8 years on them and they are still going strong. The 10 yr warranty, high quality bladders, leafield valves and made in the USA make it well worth the money. Fish on, PAV

Haaahaa, awesome stuff SilverDoc, That would have been quite the battle and the look on your face when it came out of the water must have been priceless!

I fished for sturgeon on the Fraser a couple of times now with gear and they pull like a Mac truck and typically you get a tail walk or 2 out of them as well. One of the guides we used was telling me he likes to fly fish them with 12wt rods and pointed me to some pics on his website. Insane!!

Used it last year on the coast on my 8wt and I have to admit I was very impressed. Used 3 of the 5 heads and they casted excellent. I found changing the tips a little tricky as the loops kind of lock together but all in all a great way to go if you want to cover a variety of water.

Hey, I gave it a shot. You or I will probably never know he frequents this board but I did what I could. The post was never intended for you as it was obviously not you who was down there so thanks for your opinion and I don’t mean to offend you bhurt but piss-off! Your kind words of encouragement are sure to inspire others to do the right thing next time they see something.

Actually bhurt, I do take offence to that. I wanted to do something about it but as I said in my post it was he was in an area that I just couldn't get to as I was not fishing I was biking. I'm doing what I can by posting on the boards here and I have called in to RAP twice this year already so I do what I can. When I can I always try to educate people. I get your point though and at the end of the we both want the same thing right so thats cool. Paul