ladystrange

hey i can make it this year. i'll pm you and i can bring some food too

ill be there tying with h&h again all weekend. sorry havnt been around in awhile. would be nice to see everyone again now ihave to go find ricks post about breakfast..

i do know a fair amount because of my job. but i am not a dr so i wont go in to a lot of details. the one website that has a lot of information about DMII is drmirkin.com he is very good at explaining thing and recommened a lot of diet change and provides good information about it.

i'm in. i'll talk to you wednesday about it if you are going to be at the meeting. and it's a donation night

being that UFA is now the owner, the stocking issue was supposed to get better. i guess i'll make a trip down there and go whine at the new purchaser since he is a friend of mine.

carl, i'd be up for a tying night. let me know if you are going to host on saturday. i'll see you wednesday anyway.

it was more of a duh-oh moment. when the light went on. not like i hadnt seen the show on a number of occations, i'm just not awake at 730 most saturday mornings. out of context, i have trouble remembering who most people are. if i meet someone on the river, and see them a few times and then run in to them at a show or a shop - i dont have a clue, i recognize them sure, but not likely to remember exactly from where or a name. i tend to stand out a bit, so it seems more poeple remember me regardless of where i am. so if i think someone looks familiar, my first thought isnt that i saw them on tv. anyway, Leroy, it was great to meet you and talk to you. the parachutes are coming along well. hope you get back this way sooner rather than later.

and say what, gone fishing, back by 5 if a bear doesnt eat me. oh, btw, i went that way. then hope that someone notices the note on your window that could easily blow away in a strong wind, not uncommon. i think i would rather have a transponder at least then i would feel comfortable knowing that someone would know exactly where i am within 15m. close enough for horseshoes and handgranades

i wouldnt be so sure about that... and you cant have the coat. it is not a giant bunny strip waitting to be cut to pieces...

just want to shoot gophers... are they out yet

gotcha beat carl - i had a personal, private tying lesson from Leroy at the show. i talked to him most of the day on Saturday between his seminars.

you have to meet me in person first... lol. i'm a bit of a handful as those who know me will atest.

too funny, the only thing i have ever seen remotely close was during moose season, one of the old style 80's blazers driving down white ave in edmonton with the whole dead moose strapped to the top of the roof, legs dangling over the side and the head off the back.

i'm guessing some parents dont practice restraint in the words they chose to say around the little ones. it was funny though. i dont think i heard my dad swear until i was 10. and mom, i think it was the day i moved out of the house

who needs waders??? skin to win baby! oh, i have fly fished topless and nothing else on but a sarong - no bottoms.

i had a small but off limits steelhead and salmon spawning creek running through my back yard when i was growing up. it is still one of the creeks in BC that you cannot fish at all, period, no arguements - off limits... except, you couldnt see the creek from the road because it was behind a noise wall and very dense coastal rain forest. each property was 1/2 acre and you couldnt see from one yard to the next. I used to net the fish with plastic bags. i did try ketchup as bait once, but it didnt work. i'm a dance show junky. and i'm not going to admit to anything else.

the only thing i have read in the newspaper so far was that they were found and had wandered 30km in the other direction from the in bounds ski area. i think the first thing that went through my mind was, they walked 30km in the wrong direction and kept on going?? i used to wander off as a kid, so my mom, always said if you are lost - stay put, it is easier to be found when you stay in place. so if he made an SOS in the snow, and it was seen the first time, where was he, why did he continue to wander rather than stay near by? the other thing that the paper mentioned was that on the 3rd SOS seen by the heli guide, the guide actually saw him waving his hands. i suspect that if the heli hadnt been there at the same time, he would have continued to walk and not been found. i cant fault the RCMP for waiting. no one reported them missing, no cars were abandoned in the lot at the ski hill, none of the hotels had them checked in. there would be no reason to think there was anyone missing. unfortunately we would all like to think that no one would jokingly stamp out an SOS in the snow, just to see what would happen, but really, i did know a few teens who thought it would be funny. it was a long time ago and they were 15ish, they got in to a lot of trouble. so it happens.

the fear in doing something stupid was the smack on the rear end. kept me in line. i would have hauled those little brats out of there and dragged them back to the school, what were they doing off school property in the first place - of course i am thinking this was during school hours. when i was in school we had teachers prowling the grounds during recess and lunch to make sure we didnt sneak off to Mcdonalds

you might want to post this in ask the pros and wait for don andersen to reply to you. as far as i know, he would be the go to guy to ask about cane rods.

my go to rod is my 5wt but i have used a 3wt, hell of a fight on the 3wt. it was a lot of fun. of course there is always my 15ft 10wt spey, when i'm feeling lazy

nice doc. that was funny. thanks for all the help. i will pass on the information. since the fish end up with my taxidermist - already dead, i'm not too concerned about how lethal it is to the fish. but the scale idea might be more helpful to him. i will take a look at those links too. as always - the information and help is very appreciated

it would have to be vancouver island for me. campbell river area.

i was actually looking for the specific method like counting rings of a tree. of course depending on the weather each season will depend on how big the rings are, but each ring represents a year. since he is a taxidermist, the fish come to him dead anyway and he has to skin them so accessing the inner ear is possible for him. just wondering how to go about actually doing this. monger, what method would you use for say Pike and true trout vs. char

need some cyber tweezers

this is a question posed to the Gurus of our sport, fish biologists and those with photographic memories who have read it in an article god only knows how long ago. a friend asked me last week, how do you determine the correct and exact age of a fish and does it differ between species? is there a scientific way to tell how old a fish is? i thought it over, rummaged through my copious books and the only thing i could come up with was the approximate average of 2 inches per year. and specifically that referred to the trout and char in Alberta. he was more asking about Pike and walleye. he's a taxidermist and generally gets the big fish but all he does is form them and paint.