What are you looking to get for the Aetos?

There's something about eating farmed fish that turns my stomach.  Atlantic salmon, farmed trout, tilapia and basa.  Yuck.

Fishing rods can be very expensive with rods of hundreds of dollars and even over a thousand becoming common. Does a higher retail price buy better performance?

Not always and it's common for well known brands and labels to spend much more on marketing and promotion than quality materials and design.

More info is in this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPSZVzrycf8

No, there is no expectation to do that.

I thought perhaps GordJ wasn’t aware that BnR was a sponsor of FWR and Rod’s fishing trip and subsequent video was for business, not recreational, reasons. At least that’s my presumption having no skin in the game…

To me, there’s a difference between me as a consumer not buying American-made goods, and being disappointed that a businessman has American customers. As a consumer, I can choose to purchase Canadian-made goods in lieu of American-made, but I respectfully challenge the belief that a Canadian businessman should not have American customers where he is contracted to promote their business. Most consumers have alternatives to American-made goods. A businessman may not have the luxury of cutting loose American customers.

Of course we all have our lines in the sand. I was just challenging the assumptions of GordJ’s stick that he was drawing the line with. 

But yes, GordJ, and all the rest of us, will do what we gotta do.

I got as far as understanding that Kokanee in the lake indicated prior access by Sockeye.  What I was wondering if any members of long time resident families can recall great grandfather expounding on the great sockeye run there used to be up the Puntledge before the dam was built in 1913 or whether it was always a minimal run barely surviving and not much noticed.

If it was once a great run, I begin to wonder if it could be restored and why it has not regenerated on its own given the fish access.  I suspect the Kokanee population in the lake is minimal, perhaps indicating it is not great sockeye habitat.  Any comments on that?

It appears that BnR Tackle has been a sponsor of FWR for a number of years, long before politics clouded everything. Is a self employed guy expected to cut loose any US sponsors over the politics of the last 16 months?

Is a consumer expected to support a business if it doesn't align with his core values? Really, there should be no expectations on either side. If a business decides to support US products or services, that's their choice to make. Likewise if someone like GordJ no longer wants to support said business, then that's his choice too, and as an individual consumer really doesn't have much leverage other than that.

I 100% feel where GordJ is coming from. I've taken efforts to avoid US based products now and am no longer considering recreational travel to the US for the time being. I'm not quite at the level of cancelling memberships but if that's someone else's line in the sand, I get it...

Did salmon and maybe do they still have access to Comox Lake? I can't find anything that says they did even before the dam. The only info on the BC Hydro website is that young salmon can get safely by the downstream diversion dam. If there are kokanee sockeye must have once been able to access the area above the existing dam. In some lakes fish that look like kokanee are actually 'residualized' coho smolts that stay in the lake rather than migrating to the sea.

Correction: per this website there is a fishway into Comox Lake: https://gateway.katherinebickford.ca/comox-lake-the-other-side-of-the-dam/

I get your aversion for all things Trumpistan, @Gord, but I suggest it's OK to cut the guy some slack.

It appears that BnR Tackle has been a sponsor of FWR for a number of years, long before politics clouded everything. Is a self employed guy expected to cut loose any US sponsors over the politics of the last 16 months?

And Oregon leans Blue...