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I have no idea who their sponsers are. But thats the whole thing, its not like bass. We do, but our sponsers just provide gear. The team is always looking for monetary compensation to help with the travel expenses and entry fees. Lets take a look at what it actually costs to to these for me in just the regional trials. Travel expenses, lodging for a week, liscense, flies, entry fee, food. All of that costs me about 1,000 per trial and that is only for 5 days of it. For the worlds, you are looking at at least 1500 in airfare, food, lodging for 3 weeks, food for 3 weeks, travel expenses while in the other country, guides to help the learning curve, entry fee's alone are around 1000 per person, then compensation for missing work for 3 weeks. So for each person it costs about 10,000 for the worlds per person. with a 5 man team, plus coaches, and captain. its pretty expensive. As for the czechs and portugese, czechs yes they are tough customers, but the french are the dominators especially if you look at their record the last 10 years, with 6 world championships

The team got 9th last year. My opinion is that they have european grayling and we don't. most the the comps over there are for grayling. there arent alot of rainbows or browns there.(more browns than rainbows). So they get to practice for the european grayling. we cant afford to keep a team there to fish for them. I also Say EUROPEAN because the european and arctic grayling that we have behave totally different. the closest thing we have that behaves like the european grayling is the whitefish. THey have mastered the nymphing the nymphing techniques. We however are still learning them. Those techniques were born there and utilized to fish for grayling. They also fish 30-40 comps a year in their respective coutries. we have 4 plus the national championships. They have enough financial backing to be able to fish year round. We are working on that. They have been doing the world championships for an extremely long time where as we have only been competing since 1981. do I need to keep going? I mean dont get me wrong, we are catching up at a rapid rate, but they have been doing this for so long that they have it mastered.

we should just have one big homecoming party and all fish together haha.

Contratulations to Fly Fishing Team USA for finishing 6th overall in the WFFC. France yet again wins the overall team with the Czech Rep finishing second, Finland 3rd, Portugal 4th, Spain 5th, USA 6th. Also congratulations to the Team members in their respective finishes in an extremely tough river where a former world champion blanked in 4 of 5 sessions. Lance Egan from Salt Lake was the high US finisher at 27th (24th in 2006), Brian Capsay Durango at 36th, Jim Hickey Jackson Hole 38th, George Daniel 43th (5th in 2006), and Anthony Naranja 59th.

I know I didnt stay away for very long, but I hopefully wont be back for very long either. Im a Coloradoan in a Missourian body. Ill be back to Durango. If its a chip installed when I was born, then id be back in L.A. Cali.

Thanks it will be good to be back in the company of good friends and fine anglers

Due to some important happenings, I'm movin home fellers. This was deffinitely not an easy decision to make on my part becuase of how Durango has treated me, but I've made up my mind and am movin back to the hot, humid, midwest on July 1st. So bring on the fishing.

you can fish 2 nymphs under an indicator if you rig them right and avoid snagging fish. In competition, the flies have to be at least 50 cm (20 in) apart. That is to avoid snagging fish.

that is sweet. Im gonna have to try those out this week cause the caddis are gonna start booming.

There is also the Rusty dun zebra midge which is a copper bead and copper rib, tied with rusty dun thread.

i didnt say 15 feet. I said 15 yards. its something close to at least 50 ft. I agree with you terry about the amount of phosphates in the water, having come from the golf courses and from the poultry farms. I failed to mention that because I was just thinking about beef. my bad

They may have the water rights, but the DON'T have the right to contribute to the pollution of the water from their cows' Sh*t. It is practical to fence the cattle from the stream. The Conservation Department and the Soil Conservation Service will help with the cost and in some cases pay for solar powered pumps to be installed to pump the water from the stream to a holding tank or wherever to water the cows and not have them crap in the river. Besides that, the PUBLIC has the rights to the water not just the farmer. I dont have my papers right infront of me, but the Conservation Dept. wants farmers to have a riparian buffer zone on their land, especially if they farm it. Which basically means, dont farm or have your cattle right to the waters edge. Why risk losing a foot or more land a year due to erosion than to give up 15 yards and not lose any land. Well put JD. I agree totally!

well you are right i do rememmber talking abou that in class. they may not be invasive, but they sure as hell arent native didnt he say that they are moving north at a rate of 7.5 miles a year or something like that

Yeah I used to fish the SA GPX. Then I saw the light and went to Rio. THe SA lines and the Rio lines are deffinitely the best on the market. for shootability and mendability. over all control is just better in general also. I know that some of you will probably chime in about the triangle taper and orvis wonderline, dont get me wrong the triangle taper has its own niche, but wonderline is not "wonder"line. that crap sucks.

THEY ARE INVASIVE NOT NATIVE!!!!!!!!

or you could do the best of the west.....

I said that they have only been in the US!!!! for the last 150 years. The canal wasnt even built 150 years ago. did you forget your history? they are excellent swimmers so it is deffinitely plausible that they could cross a river. no matter how big. They cant tolerate the cold weather. Thats why they havent gone any farther north. dillos are an invasive species. They are not native here and never will be.

watch your terms here....invasive, or non native? there is a difference no armadillos are not native to missouri Armadillos are native to south america and have only been in the us for the last 150 years

when you say watershed, do you mean different lakes, and or streams, To clarify that before I answer because a Watershed is defined as a ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems. Also called water parting, or The region draining into a river, river system, or other body of water. Yes there was. Stocking by humans. Humans could and would go and catch and stock fish...ie bluegills and LMB or catfish, from previous fishing trips into a pond to have their own secluded fishing pond. even if a bird did infact have a fish egg get stuck to its leg, the possibility of it coming off of the brids leg (after it had dried out) and landing in a spot that was already a fishes nest or area cleared is extremely unlikely. That egg would not survive without the parental care that they would get from the parents and It would need the proper sunlight and cleaning. There is no possible way that it would survive.

There is no proof that fish eggs spread by herons. Think about it.....fish eggs have to have water to live otherwise they would dry out. Come on now......we had this discussion in my fish ecology class a couple years ago. We all busted that myth. i think that when he is reffering to me when he says to mtm. although I do remember mtm on othis forum also...largemouth bass and spotted bass are native. I agree with you in the fact that Lewis and Clark did not document every single species. I think that terry was using it as a reference to being historical. like I said before, the native vs. non native is based on historical records. the common carp is native to china and a large part of Asia. Just like bamboo. Just because they have spread here and lived here for a while, doesnt make it native. here is some food for thought. do some research on your own and type in native species in google and or yahoo and look up the wikipedia definition. oh lets see here.... here ya go ill just do it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species

I think its great. I fish a lot of caddis patterns out here. probably 80 percent of the time.

yes i knew that they are suffereing from WD. so are just about everyother river out here. THe agent also mentioned that. but do you know what whirling diesease does. it makes affects the spinalcord formation and makes the trout swim in circles. Then the big bad brown trout come and eat the fingerlings suffereing from the diesease. You do know that it only affects rainbows that are less than 2 years of age?!?! Im done with this thread if you have any other qualls with my view pm me

Dont even think for one second that those hogs are native. and elephants didnt occur here naturally so umm lets see nope they wouldnt be native either.

If you know anything about loop, then that would prove your wrong. of course if you take a sledge to it you are gonna break it. how ignorant can you be. usually when it comes to reels the unbreakable comes from day to day wear and tear and banging it on rocks or dropping it. Not from beating it with a hammer.

Its a larvae out of its case. Caddis can be orange ie the october caddis which grow to be about a size 8. they can be bright green, brown, white, black, cream. they can range in size from 8-22 or so. it looks to me like you took that right out of Lafontaine's book