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Right on Bud!!.... Still looks like freakin winter up there..... Sheeesh... Cheers...Jeff..

Right on Gary!! Cheers...Jeff..

Holy Shmoley!!!....The easter Bunny was good to you guys!!!....Them are absolute slabs!!....Nicely done!!!.... Cheers...Jeff..

Chironies for sure!!...Any time of year...Have fun!.. Cheers...Jeff..

Sounds great buddy... ...Love to hook into some Steel with ya's!!...Or at the least, get educated... ... Cheers...Jeff..

Hey Al, Have a great time in Belize!!!...The Bitters , Crabs, and others, ya tied up for me worked well, thanx a bunch!!.....Lookin froward to chattin at BH about some good, but, "Not so eventful" adventures. .. ...Lay a licken on those Tarpon!! Have a good one...Jeff..

Thanx a bunch for the offer Lorne, Im OK on gear, just a little low things now...Left most of my Trout stuff in Canada.....Pricey Trip.... Thanx...Jeff..

Thanx Gary, we did our best to keep our heads somewhat high....Like I said above, after the 2nd rip off, things were kinda dull....However, our goal was to get Bones on the flats without bein guided, so we are pretty happy about that.... Another thing I forgot to mention is that the Mafia has been spreading to the South in the last few weeks, (according to many locals in Playa) Our friend that has a deep sea guiding company, along with a grocery store, got a call on the 3rd last day we were there, and the Mafia was demanding money over the phone, unreal!!....I guess they were bugging his neighbor that also has a business a couple weeks before that!....Hmmm, things are not lookin good at all in Mexico for tourism, what a shame..... Ill add some other pics later.... Cheers...Jeff..

Them Bones are absolute Nuts!!!....Never experienced any thing like em'

Where we stayed in the Flats..Great Place! Lots of these to watch out for..

To Die for Shrimp...Or at least give up some gear and stuff... For the Bob....

Well it's sure good to be back!!....The first couple hrs. we were in Playa Del Carmen our rental car got broke into cleanly.....We were parked 1/2 a block from our friends fishing shop on a busy street, not really worried at all bout our stuff, to get info from our friend on where to stay for the night and some fishin directions, we then returned to the fully locked car and went to our hotel, parked the car reached back on the floor to get our packs and they were gone!!!...Panic set in as our back packs contained our Passports, fishin gear, plane tickets, some fishin clothing, my cell phone among many other things.....Not much was said for the first couple min. I think the first thing I said was how the frick are we goin to get home!?!?!?....We then went into the hotel and explained our horror to a young man that worked there and spoke good English, and he took us to the local municipality to get a report wrote up.....For the next 3 days we stressfully pissed around getting emergency passports, pictures made up for the Canadian Consulate (They were really good to us!!), that was a lot of stress and paper work/questions, WOW, and the one of those days I was sick as a freakin dog from something I ate....After talking to some Local people, friends and police, we figure we got ripped off from the rental car company, I guess there has been a bit off that crap goin on down there as of lately, we confronted the agency about the theft, but nothing was settled at all....So after all the fricken around, we then went to Boca Paila area to do some fishin and along the way stopped at the Boca Paila Fishing Lodge, to see if I could rent a reel, as I didn't have one, Both got ripped off including the one Clive lent me, Dekkard had one reel left he had in another bag, we were goin to share a rod if worse came to worse....Thank god the Lodge was more than willing to rent me a reel for 10$ a day....They are super nice people at the lodge, great place!!, fantastic food too!! .....We then hit the flats and got into a some Bone's and Amber Jacks....Awesome!!, we were somewhat happy once again....Found a nice place with Cabanas, out of this world food, drink and coffee, close to the Bones and stayed there for a few days and fished the flats, till our car got broke into while we were fishing, they had punched out the lock for the hatch and tried to rip the stereo out of the dash, but only got it half out wrecking the dash and getting my camera charger and power inverter that was stashed under the seat, along with the rest of Clives flies that he had so kindly lent me....Frick here we go again!!!... Absolutely Devastated once again, we returned to the Cabanas and I got into the tequila!!!....The next day we went to Playa to get a new car and they wanted us to pay for the damages, thank god we had our Mexican friend Fediricco with us to help us out, and in the end never had to pay, we were just gettin screwed every where we went!!....So back to the flats to do some more fishin, but things were just not the same after that, Both dekkard and I were not our selves.....But continued to stalk Bones and what ever else was cruisin.....Witnessed some nice Permit, Sharks, Jacks, Snook, Cuda's, Snapper, but nothin large to hand, I had something big on, but somewhat straightened the hook after my line got wrapped on the handle of the reel, as it took off!! that was a piss off.....Them salt water fish of all sizes are spooky!!!, got to get'em on the feed or nothin.....Oh ya, Drove to Punta Allen one day on the absolute crazy road, it took us about 2hrs to do 30km of road, only to find you need a guide and a boat to get to the good flats, (Two fly castin Canadians told us that over Supper)...So we stayed the night, had a great meal and headed back to Boca Paila in the Morn.....All in All we, seen some cool things, learnt some valuable lessons, seen a lot of cool fish, got into some fish, lots of good lookin women (I mean Lots!), Got hang out with a good friend, so it was a bad trip, but we made the best of it.....Below are some pics, got some sorted out but for some un-forsaken reason, need to get a lot re-formated?!?!... Cheers...Jeff.. Our Cabana...To the left, the flats, 1 min walk to the right, the Ocean...Loved that little Paradise.... adc's tie, worked well Morning Breaky....Was good...

Thats a fantastic shot Gary!! Cheers...Jeff..

Great Shots, Gary!!!!

Hi All, Picked up a Olympus Stylus Tough 6020 last week at London Drugs for a smokin deal of $150....So far I really like it, however I find it a lot more complex than any point and shoot Sony I have ever owned....Seems I will have to do a lot more playin around with it to find its true potential, there are a few under water settings that I have to play around with for sure...Snuck out to the Hills for a couple days, and got to play around with it a bit....Run into dryfly, adc and their buddy's on the water, always a pleasure Boy's.....Here a few pics that I took.... Cheers...Jeff.. Some Panoramics...Still workin on this setting...Really like it.... The Super Macro setting seems to work great...

Ya, it sure didn't look like the South I have ever seen, my buddy and I described that area as bein in The Arctic or something....It gave off a very Eerie feeling to say the least...

Well I'm no environmentalist, but it dont look good south of town to me...A buddy and I cruised about 300 km of back roads yesterday, starting from The Cavan Res. area, then taking all kinds of back roads to Bullshead, then gettin turned around Southwest of Michelle Res. due to giant snow drifts blowing across the road....The Cavan and Bullshead areas were very nice weather wise, sun was shining, no wind at all and gophers runnin around every where, until we just passed Michelle Res. then the wind was blowin at Mach 5 along with some strange lookin clouds....Not sure Ive seen that much snow down there...Michelle res. looked like a giant snow bowl, you would not even know it was a Res. unless you all ready knew it was....At Bullshead, you could see that they have cleared the snow in the channel leading to the spillway, gettin ready for the big melt....We also checked out the Cofferdam that diverts water to Cavan or Irvine, they are still very busy working there to ensure thing will be ok with all the run off... I was told there will be no more water diverted to Cavan due it is at absolute max capacity right now, told to me by my buddy's wife, she calls her self the "Water Which" lol...She looks after all the water consumption/rights, diversions ect. and the reservoirs in the area....Stress-full job tryin to keep farmers, fisherman govt. happy, along with dealin with Mother nature her self!-Yikes...I forgot my camera yesterday, but took some pics with my Samsung Galaxy S. Turned out not to bad I guess... These were just the beginning on the drifts, never took any pics of the 3 ft. drifts covering the road, was to busy turning around and to not get stuck, it was close at times!! These 2 pics below were also taken with my phone, it was a little south of town last Fri.

Bass Pro Fly and Fishing departments for sure needs some staff, I was far from impressed, not a bad fly reel selection mind ya....However I did get some fantastic service from a young lady in the Clothing department, I was looking for a water tight Columbia Jacket, they never had the one I was lookin for, but she managed to hook me up with an even better Columbia jacket for well under $100, and also got me an additional $10 dollars off that, I was impressed....I had a list of stuff I needed from all over the store, and the young lady pointed me in the right direction all morning long, she knew that store inside out....Some good deals in there if you spend the time to look, I spent almost 5hrs last time I was there.... Cheers...Jeff..

Totally wicked pics man!!!....Thanx for sharing!! Cheers...Jeff..

Nice fish guys!!!...almost done up north here, then shes time to get at er'. Cheers... Jeff..

I bought a pump a few years ago, and have still yet to use it....Im not really against it, if used properly, just never found the need to use it, and also, something just dont feel right (to me) stickin something down a Trouts throat, and then stealin his lunch ....I think what ggp said above, nailed it... Cheers...Jeff..

Hi All, Here is the Link (below) to the new website....Looks great, lots of Info, Along with a lot of success ...Thats just awesome that Guy Woods, along with other locals from that area, have chipped in and worked very hard over the years to make a difference to our precious Trout waters....Good stuff Guy's!!!....Looks like dekkard made the front page, Nice... Cheers...Jeff.. The link.... http://streamtender.com/wordpress/

Have a great one!!... Cheers...Jeff..