8 things about me.

I was tagged for this meme by Othmar Vohringer 

Looks like I have to post the meme rules, then tell you eight random facts about me – Do I really want people to know the facts about me, letting out my deep hidden secrets?

The rules of this meme are:
Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

Well here we go:

1- I am deathly afraid of spiders, and when I say afraid I mean I act like a little school girl, God I hate them.

2-I am an extremely fair but tough person, I agree with the “An eye for an eye” way of living. Do to others as you want done to you. In other words no B.S I am who and what I am and everyone that knows me will tell you that I don’t pussy foot around, if I want to say something I will period.

3- I am a Canadian, But I do believe in the death penalty.

4- I am VERY frustrated with our North American bleeding heart B.S. I think we really need to have a serious look at our political system and give a kick in the Ass. By this I mean some of the choices made by our leaders are beyond ridiculous. Iraqu, soft jail times for criminals, etc…

5- I am a die hard Hockey fan. I also have played some pick up beer league Ice hockey in the past. My passion though is Ball Hockey, I have played it for 17 years and now because of a very damaged knee only coach it, but I am having just as much fun coaching these kids as I did playing.

6- I was a jerk as a teen, I was kicked out of the house by my father at 16 and deserved it. I treated people like shit and if not for the tough love of my Father probably still would. I owe my Father so much for the man I have Become.

7- One of my biggest peeves is people that don’t treat our nature with respect. We don’t have that much left, and what we do have needs to be treated properly. When you go camping, take out what you took in, there is nothing worse that going into the bush and finding someones crap laying around. Clean up behind you so that everyone can enjoy the beauty of nature.

8- In 1984 I lost my right eye to a firecracker. This is one of the most defining moments in my life and I have had to deal with so much to overcome this unfortunate accident. I think that losing my eye was the point in my life where I changed and became the jerk I was in my teens. This was a traumatic incident and during those teen years was quite the blow and really changed me.

Well that’s me, take it or leave it. No who to tag for this.

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Link Lake (BC) Fishing Report

I went to the Osprey lake area for a bit of relaxation with the wife. We stayed at a GREAT B&B called the Jellico station. I would Highly recommend this B&B to all, Les & Darlene were very friendly and the food was beyond great.

I decided to try to fish Osprey lake on the Saturday and took off at around 9am from the B&B at Chain lake. Once I got to Osprey I decided that this would not be the place to fish because there was one hell of a wind. I went to link and found that this lake was much more protected so I pumped up the tube got the rods ready and hit the water.

Once I got to the spot that I wanted to drop anchor and throw a few chironomids, I realized that I had left the anchor at home. I also realized that since I took the car and left the truck at home, I had no rope to even Bulls**t up a anchor. I tried to cast a few chronies without the use of an anchor but as soon as I started to cast the wind kicked up.

This really got me since the Chironomids were really coming off and I knew that this is what the fish were after.
I changed my setup to a sinking line and decided to kick around the lake a little and see what I could come up with.I kicked for about 1 hour and landed 2 smaller (14″) Rainbows. This was not working so I decided to change my setup back to a floating line and a Chironomid. I figured that since I could not anchor I would try a dead drift with the wind at my back and slowing my drift with the odd kick, this helped keep the line tight.

This was the first time I had tried this and holy crap did it work, In the next 2 hours I landed 8 fish, all between 16-18″. This was fun and I will try this again in the future.

I ended up leaving the lake at around 2:30 PM because the wind had got to the point that the waves started breaking over the back of my tube.

All in all not a bad little lake, except for the a holes that were camping there. The campsite was totally overloaded with young people partying and being totally reckless on their motorbikes and ATV’s.

Rick

Lets all get together and boycott the gas prices!!!!!

Don’t pump gas on May 15th.

April, 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in
Protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
On May 15th, 2007 all Internet users are asked to not go to a gas
Station and pump gas in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over
$3.00 a gallon in most places.

There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet
Network, and the average car takes about 30
to 50 dollars to Fill up. If all users did not go to the pump on the
15th, it would take $2,292,000,000.00 (that’s almost 3 BILLION)
out of the oil companies Pockets for just one day, so please do not go
to the gas station On May15th and lets try to put a dent in the
middle eastern oil Industry for? At least one day.

BIG Fish

Now this is a BIG fish!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny One

A young guy from Alberta moves to Vancouver and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.

The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”

The kid says “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Alberta .”

Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did. His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down. “How many customers bought something from you today?

The kid says “one”.

The boss says “Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?”

The kid says “$101,237.65″.

The boss says “$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell?”

The kid says, “First, I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook.

Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”

The boss said “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK?”

The kid said “No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife, and I said, “Dude, your weekend’s shot. You should go fishing.”

I thought this one was great…….

Chironomid Tactics

I am not the most patient person in the world when it come to Chironomid fishing. I have had great success over the many years of flyfishing with the tactics I learned from Brian Chan and I can’t thank him enough for all the books, and videos he has put out over those years. I just found another great article from him and thought I would share it with all my readers. The full article can be found at http://www.flyfishersrepublic.com/tactics/fishing/chironomid-tactics/

Here is a small exert from the article to peak your interest :

The western provinces and states of Canada and the United States are blessed with an incredible abundance of productive stillwaters. These nutrient rich lakes support extremely prolific and diverse populations of chironomids (midges, buzzers). Brian Chan looks at chironomids and tactics for targetting the trout that feed on them.

To many North American fly fishers, chironomids are those very tiny patterns imitated on hook sizes #18 to #24 or smaller that are also found in lakes but are more common in rivers and especially productive tailwaters. However, the larval and pupal stages of many chironomid species found in the stillwaters of the western states and provinces are commonly represented on #16 to #10 shrimp/pupa hooks such as the Mustad Signature C49S or Tiemco 2457. The largest pupal patterns which are known locally as “bombers” are dressed on #12-3XL to #8-3XL hooks. Chironomid pupa are found in a wide variety of colours with the most common ones being black, maroon, green and brown and various shades of each colour. One of the keys to being successful is understanding and recognizing that there are various sizes and colours of the pupa and that the trout can be quite selective about both. The use of throat pumps (stomach pumps) can be very beneficial in determining what colour and size of larvae or pupae a particular trout may have just inhaled. The proper use of a throat pump samples the esophagus or throat of the fish, where the food items are still alive. The fish can then be released alive. However, improper use of the tool can damage or even kill a fish, so take care.

Typical throat pump sample from stillwater trout. Sample shows a mix of various sized chironomid pupae, baetis and damsel nymphs.

There are numerous factors that produce the exceptional chironomid fishing found in these waters. Most significant is the basic water quality. These lakes are rich in key elements like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and nitrogen, the building blocks for aquatic plant growth, phytoplankton, zooplankton and the many aquatic insects and other macro invertebrates that grow healthy fish. This water chemistry, in combination with long open water growing seasons, also provides ideal habitat for chironomids. There are so many species of chironomids that emergences begin occurring from almost the day the ice comes off a lake to well into the late summer or early fall period. Actual emergences are very heavy with literally thousands upon thousands of pupa ascending to the surface of the lake to emerge. Trout literally “breathe” in pupa because of the shear densities in the water column. Many of the chironomid species are relatively large so they can make up a significant proportion of the annual diet of a trout. And finally, trout eat so many of these insects during prime emergence periods that they will take these imitations even when there is no actual emergence or only very minor ones occurring such as during the very late fall period.

Again the full article can be found at http://www.flyfishersrepublic.com/tactics/fishing/chironomid-tactics/