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Global Warming Beer: Greenland Brews with Melting Ice Cap : TreeHugger

Yeah I know – this has nothing to do with fly fishing or fly tying – but I just had to post this anyway. I have been known to enjoy a good beer or two on fishing trips, so I’ll use that as justification. Actually there’s another hook ;^) :

… small icebergs are specially selected by local fishermen, who tow them to the brewery …

If you have a problem with any of this – go tell the site admin ;^)

Anyway – This beer was just released in Copenhagen this past week – so I doubt that it’s available here in Canada – but I think that I’ll have to make a trip to a particular beer store in town to see.

Cheers! The ice is melting!

The pontoon boat has been ordered – should be getting shipped in the next day or two. There was apparently a delay in getting some parts back from powder coating.

With the forecast of some nice warm days ahead, there HAS to be some open stillwater soon! The North Saskatchewan is opening up pretty quick if that’s any indication.

Have picked up some accessories for the pontoon boat already, including a rail mount for my rod holder, and a WISE brand swivel base. Going to think about the seat pedestal as well after I try this thing out – I came across a post where another owner found that the pedestal made it much easier to stand up on the casting deck and sit back down.

I’ll be reusing much of what I used on my float tube as well, such as the rod holder, cup holder, and fish finder mount. Still need to decide on an anchor, and pick up some anchor rope as well. And I just remembered – I gotta get this seasons fishing license!

Tags: fishing, pontoon boat, waiting

Starting to get pumped… Reading a few posts of people getting out on the Bow River, and other locations south of here, flipping through fly fishing books and magazines just fuels the desire even more.

A couple friends and myself have set the date for our annual June excursion, and have the first week tentatively booked off. We’re really anxious to get the new pontoon boats (just ordered them last week) out on the water…. so I suspect that we’ll probably try them out on some more local waters before the big trip.

I’ve been trying to get more time in on the vise – doing up a bunch of Czech nymphs, and want to try more dry flies – so I’m doing up a variety of mayfly’s and caddis flies. All this along with the usual Muddler Minnows, TU mutants, and woolly buggers.

Tags: fishing, fly tying, trips

Yes – this is where any and all new content is going to be put – it largely looks the same, but the server is now somewhere on the eastern seaboard I believe ;^)

I’ve been running the site out of my basement for years – and the server has definitely seen better days.  I think that its time to retire the P3-600 for good now. With the relocation, I didn’t manage to get the user accounts moved over  – just the content (and still working on one of the photo galleries).  The new home is with 1&1, who I have been using for approx. 4 years – for site development projects, domain parking and DNS services.  I’ve been very happy with them.  Anytime that I’ve had any issues, a phone call typically was all it took – and I think that in 4 years, I’ve had to call them once!

I suppose the server retiring is just one excuse for the move – the other is that I’m finding that I just don’t have the spare cycles to look after keeping the server current.  I have upgraded the OS a few times – but the time needed to get a new server built and configured just doesn’t seem to be there.  So, all my web and mail stuff is going to 1&1 now – and I’ll soon have one less computer running in the house!

This world sure seems small sometimes -

Turns out that there are a few fly tying club members that used to play Unreal Tournament – and played on the server that myself and Dragon Troller (aka Shan) used to run on damclan.com (no longer use that domain).

Maybe I should dust off my copy of UT this winter, or perhaps try the upcoming version, and do a LAN!