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  1. I'll share my favourite trophy trout fly. I've been using the same pattern for a few years now. Big browns, brookies and bows all like to kill it for trespassing. Sometimes they like yellow, sometimes white, sometimes brown, sometimes black..... Its called the sex dungeon, originally tied by a fella from the midwest. Goes by the name Kelly Galloup.
  2. Thermacell. I've been using one for years, and anyone that fishes/camps/hikes with me on a regular basis gets one for their birthday, xmas, etc. from me. They won't work as well if its too windy, but the wind usually knocks the bugs down anyways.
  3. All of that lovely stuff you spray on your lovely 'lawns' drips straight into the water you love to fish. Just saying....this is a fishing forum and everyone is giving advice on how it use/'import' this crap....and then folks will turn around and whoo and haaa about why the fishing sucks...everywhere. It might not kill the fish directly, but it'll either kill what they eat, or what they eat eats. If you want a shnazzy lawn, maybe consider that you'll have to put some work into keeping it nicely groomed. Otheriwse, dig up your friggin lawn and grow a bunch of stuff you can eat beside your catch.
  4. I quit cold turkey last october using an e-cig.
  5. First year doing this on my own. I've spent time on other farms with buckets, but this is a first for me. 15 taps this year to start. So far about 20 gallons of sap in my tank. First boil will be this weekend. Today was the best flow yet. I'm just outside of Elora.
  6. They used to sell the dvds and blurays right off the IF4 website but there wasn't enough interest to carry on. Most of the films are available either in DVD/Bluray format or for streaming/On Demand on the film makers websites. Just search the film maker and video name and google and you should be able to find them. For anyone interested, the one we had in the festival in 2012 is free to view on youtube:
  7. As long as folks RSVP, there are seats. That's why I say PM me so you can get a seat reserved for a youth if you have an adult ticket. Right now, there are plenty of seats still available. Trailers for the films can be viewed on the homepage of the IF4 website: http://flyfilmfest.com/IF4/ List of films: Feature Films “Unbroken” – Camille Egdorf “Stream Fishing Addiction” – H20 Media “Landed” – IF4 Original Film “Mending the Line” – Uncage the Soul Productions “Destination Spain – Director’s Cut” – VPMH Short Films “Swing North” – Burl Productions “Arctic Silver” – Kokkaffe Media “Change of Pace” – SOS Fly Fishing & More!
  8. Getting the word out for Kim about the free seats for youth. Kim's a good buddy of mine.
  9. Should be a good one this year! If anyone is considering going and has a teenager or younger son or daughter they'd like to bring, they can get in FREE with a paid adult ticket. Shoot me a PM for details if that sort of thing interests you! Dave
  10. If you want something very similar to the BF ATs, General Grabber AT2 are excellent. Nearly identical tread pattern to the BFs and priced about the same as the wranglers. I have these tires on my truck and love them. http://www.generaltire.ca/productdetails.php?id=grabberat2
  11. I'll second tamar. I do two trips a year, summer and winter. Bruce is great. You'll catch ling all night if you want to. I can give a couple of tips on where to look for pickeral around there provided you are mobile on the ice.
  12. And I'm sure one of them will take the award this year. Once In A Blue Moon won the award in 2009. Different films every year.
  13. I see what you're getting at, but the award it won was for being voted as best film in the Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Film Competition...
  14. Doesn't deserve a film making award? I'm gonna guess you watched it with your eyes closed..... That was a breakthrough film as far as fly fishing, and fishing films in general goes. Seemed fitting that the Fly Fishing Film Tour would give them the award.
  15. From the CBC - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted Tuesday he has smoked crack cocaine "in one of my drunken stupors." Ford made the shocking statement Tuesday at Toronto City Hall in a scrum with reporters. “Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,” Ford said. “But, no — do I? Am I an addict, no? Have I tried it? Um, probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.” The mayor suggested that he hadn’t been lying when reporters previously asked him about the tape. “So, I wasn’t lying. You didn’t ask the correct questions,” Ford said. “No I’m not an addict and no, I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can’t change the past.” "Yes, I've made mistakes, all I can do now is apologize and move on," the mayor said. "I can apologize to my family, my friends, my colleagues and the people of this great city." Last week, Toronto's police chief said authorities had recovered a video of the mayor with images that corresponded with media reports about him appearing to smoke crack cocaine. Ford repeated a call for the tape to be released on Tuesday. "I don't even recall there being a tape or a video and I know that. So I want to see the state that I was in. I wasn't lying," he told reporters. Ford's admission comes after months of speculation that began in May of this year when reports surfaced that a video exists that shows the mayor smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. Ford, 44, was elected as the mayor of Toronto three years ago. He still has another year to go in his current term. During his time as mayor, Ford has consistently drawn headlines both for his work at city hall and his life outside of it. Earlier this year, the Toronto Star and the U.S. gossip website Gawker each reported that someone had been shopping a video of the mayor using crack cocaine. Ford denied both the video’s existence and using crack cocaine. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mayor-rob-ford-yes-i-have-smoked-crack-cocaine-1.2415533
  16. Nothing makes the knees buckle like a musky chasing your fly, and taking it to boot! I've been doing the same for quite a while now. I do small water though....rivers. We should consider a musky trip swap next season man! I'd have to agree with the icelandic sheep material. Nothing better. I posted this a while back, but here it is again just for kicks....
  17. Cool. I live right outside Elora, so I'll check it out. For some reason I thought he was done making them.
  18. Just Kens net. Is Chris still making them? Several of us would be interested if so. I've seen quite a few fish end up in that particular net
  19. Thanks folks! You'll probably be interested in the rod building film that's in the works. It follows a local rod builder searching for antler sheds for reel seats and feathers for inlays straight through to fishing the rod and describing the passion of fly fishing from end to end. Nice water indeed! We're lucky to have access to some stretches of water that see no pressure whatsoever.
  20. A while back I posted a trailer to a fly fishing film that a few of us put together. The film was accepted into the International Fly Fishing Film Festival a couple of years ago. While it was in the festival, we had to keep the full length film under wraps. Now however, we've released the film for free public viewing. I chatted with Mister Spiel, rod building master, and he seemed to think it would be a great idea to post the full film here for folks to view. So here it is! The entire film was shot in southwestern Ontario, primarily in the Grey/Bruce region. Downstream Vol. 1 ~ Testing Trout Info on the who's and what's in the film can be found here: http://www.flyfishontario.ca/fly-fishing-videos/other-fly-fishing-videos/downstream-vol-1-testing-trout.html We have another film in the works as well. Downstream Vol. 2 ~ Chrome Highlights. We are still looking for a few key actors in the depths of our great lakes tributaries for this one We'd love to hear your feedback on the first film!
  21. Even worse is that the lake is slowly destroying the cold water fishery downstream. The Beaver River is now a hot tub from the hydro facility down to the confluence with Mill Creek. There it cools for a short distance and warms up once again. I've fished the area for over 30 years and watched its demise. Between that old hydro facility, the polluted and invaded lake and the rape of the water table in Feversham, the river is doomed. The dam/lake also destroyed what would have been one of southern Ontario's most spectacular waterfalls. Eugenia Falls. This time of year, barely a drop of water goes over the falls, and the old stream bed that was once the Beaver River proper is all but dry as a bone. The Beavers main trib in its upper reaches, the Boyne River is also on its way out. I've watched the water level on that stream drop 3-4 feet over the last couple of decades. I can relate to your feelings of man destroying a lake, aniceguy, but in my opinion, the lake itself has done far more damage to the surrounding environment than what people have done to the lake.
  22. I think these flies weigh a little more than a half ounce jig....been nailed in the front and back of the head plenty of times hucking them around.
  23. Say like 5 or 6 inch rabbit strip streamers? I know that creek....there are plenty of big fish in there Toss some nice big streamers around and you'll be able to weed out the smaller fish. Look up the "Rattlesnake" or the "Zoo Cougar" to get an idea of what kind of size I'm talking about.
  24. .......Its a 40 to 50 inch fish chasing a giant fly right to the boat.... Got out on the river to chase Musky for the day on Sunday. Did a very short drift with my buddies Ken and Tyler. Ken Guides in southern Ontario for pretty much any species you can think of. Ken built this boat a number of years ago. I've watched it evolve over the years as he tweaked this and that. I wouldn't hesitate at all in saying its now THE Cadillac of driftboats. Plenty of standing and casting room at both the bow and stern of the boat. This is a necessity, especially when making long casts with giant flies where line piles up at your feet. We managed to raise several large fish, as well as a few smaller fish. I had one giant close to 50" become airborne right beside the boat before it winked and spit the giant squirrel sized fly right back into the boat. No musky landed, but a couple of nice smallmouth came to hand. Here's a little clip of a nice Fish close to 40" chasing a fly right to the boat. Tyler was shaking quite a bit after this follow. His first time chasing these beasts on the fly...At the end of the day we had each hooked a couple of fish, but keeping them on was another story. Large single point barbless hooks definitely add to the adventure.... In typical Chandler fashion, he says put it 'there', you put it 'there' and get ready....
  25. Did you try tossing some big stuff around in there? Big browns lurk under those log jams.
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