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The titles sound good but like Obama Care are riddled with traps and pitfalls. It is hard enough to make money on the internet without more regulations and junk to deal with.

If you surf or run an internet business, please pass this on to your friends. These two bills must be defeated.

Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com

 SPECIAL NOTICE!!!!! 

Attention all  Alaskan or Alaska-bound Fly Anglers    

In the interest of  preventing the spread of un-wanted species, Alaska will no longer allow the use of felt-soled wading boots in its fresh-water rivers and streams as of January 1, 2012! Please consider this ample warning that you will be ticketed if you are found to be violating this state-wide ban.

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Alaska is one of the first ot ban felt wading boots. Other state bans are coming in 2012 in the attempt to stop spread of invasive species.

Tight Lines,

Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
Colorado Fly Fishing Information

Download an Enrollment Form  Right Click and Save Target As to your Desktop. The file is in PDF format which is on most PCs. Print out the form and send it back to Robin Knox with a check payable to High Plains Drifters by 6/4/2011,

 See you at Kids Day

Tight Lines,

Marshall, Author
Successful Fly Fishing for Trout
www.successfulflyfishing.com

For 2010 The Event will be June 19th and includes:

• Class is limited to 50 students age 6 thru 14. All students must be accompanied by a Parent or Guardian.
• Special Presentation by Guide Landon Mayer
• Fish Identification
• Stream Entomology display by the Butterfly Pavalion
• Learning How to Roll Cast
• Fly Tying Demonstration
• Fly Fishing Knots
• Fly Fishing Gear that is typically used
• Practice Roll Casting Session Outdoors
• Fishing in a nearby Private Lake.
• Free Lunch (The Important part for a kid)
• Cost is $15 per Participant and must be received at the address in the Kids Day 2010 PDF by May 16, 2010
• Download the 2010 Kids Day PDF (Right Click and Save Target As – Save to your Desktop)
• See the High Plains Drifters Website www.hpd-fff.org
• Enroll your child now and avoid the rush.
• Spend some quality time with your kids at the HPD Kids Day Fly Fishing Event 2010

Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
Everything you need for fly fishing
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www.110flyfishingtips.com
www.troutadventures.com
Alaska Trout Fishing Information

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Part of the fun of fly fishing is exploring the water in preparation for the coming season. These explorations help to shake off the winter’s cabin fever and start to focus on spring.

Wed. 3/31/10, I took a ride along Bear Creek to check out the conditions. The Creek was the color of coffee with a bit of cream in it and running at 54 CFS with an air temp of 54, a wind around 10 mph and high clouds. When I stopped at the Bear Creek Restaurant in Kitteridge for lunch, the sun was trying to peek through the cloud cover. After a leisurely lunch, I stepped outside to find the windchill had dropped the air temperature about 10 degrees cooler than when I arrived.

Next door to the restaurant (first building west) , a young man was working at the back of the empty building. Driving to that parking lot, I asked for permission to park there. This nice fellow was Tom Banaszek, owner of Knot New Wood. www.knotnewwood.com. Tom and his 5 employees use old wood to recycle into new furniture. The speciality is custom wine racks. But about any furniture item may be obtained. Tom is taking over the entire ground floor of this building to have a 2,000 foot work space and show room.

Take a look at the furniture Tom and his crew can make by recycling left over wood, slate and other materials. Really nice pieces. www.knotnewwood.com.

Tom gave me permission to park in the lot any time I want.  All in all a successful day. Met a nice young man and received permission to use their lot for fishing on Bear Creek.

Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
Everything you need for fly fishing
www.110flyfishingtips.com
www.troutadventures.com
Alaska Trout Fishing Information

The Federal Moritorium on Internet Sales Taxes expired in 2003. With the current political party in power, the current political mindset and the ballooning national deficit, renewal of the the moritorium on internet sales taxes is highly unlikely. Further, I expect that there will eventually be a Federal Sales tax or a VAT tax levied on internet sales which will be collected to help pay off the Federal Budget Deficit. (Just like the European Union does now and we know how that is working out!)

In 2002, state governments organized to fight back. Under a state-led initiative known as the Streamlined Sales & Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), 40 states and the District of Columbia banded together to simplify their sales tax codes in order to make sales tax collection easier. Under SSUTA, the collection of sales tax still remains voluntary. However, if ten states representing 20% of the U.S. population vote for the rules, the organization will pressure Washington D.C. for federal legislation. The SSUTA has gained traction recently http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/internet/internet-taxes(1).html by Bryan E. Kuhn Counselor at Law P.C.

This means states will be scrambling to pass or enforce sales tax or use tax laws on internet sales to balance budgets. It means online retailers will have to start collecting and remitting sales taxes to many more states than they do now.

Colorado recently passed HB1193 otherwise known as the "Amazon Ad Tax" among affiliate marketers to force Amazon to collect sales taxes on sales in Colorado if they have Colorado Affiliates. When other states such as New York and North Carolina have passed similar laws, the affiliate management companies have simply dumped the affiliates in those states effectively putting them out of business.

Almost all states have use tax or use fee laws on the books which require buyers of goods on which sales taxes have not been paid to remit the equivalent of sales taxes to the states. In the past these laws have mainly been applied to large ticket items such as boats and cars purchased in states with low or no sales taxes. These items have to be licensed and so the collection of the use tax could be controlled.

Other items such as appliances purchased out of state, downloadable software, ebooks, ecourses, membership sites are much harder to track. But in typical government fashion Colorado is working on a database of online retailers that market such items. As the data base grows, you can bet that online retailers will be forced to collect sales taxes.

The retailers that start gearing up now will be ahead of the curve. Those that don’t will be left scrambling to get sales tax licenses and systems in place to track and remit sales taxes. And you can bet that tracking consumers will be coming too. The laws may be changed to force disclosure of sales by state by buyer for an online retailer. Then the state will contact the buyer for the use tax.

The internet is one of the remaining engines keeping a bad economic situation from getting worse. And in typical Government fashion, government is going to screw it up for all of us.

This post is a personal opinion of the Editor and does not reflect the Company Policies of Fly Fishing Colroado.

Terry L. Johnson is a man who has paid his dues in the fly fishing industry. Working as a fly fishing and hunting guide for 20 plus years, Terry knows fly rods and gear from the working side out.

From the design and manufacturing side, Terry started as a custom bamboo and graphite rod designer and builder over 25 years ago. Working with rod building greats such as Joe Fisher, Press Powell, Graphite USA and others, Terry honed his rod design and building skills to a high level.

Finally Terry started producing T.L. Johnson Rods under his own name. T.L. Johnson rods are proudly made in Colorado, USA. TL Johnson fly rods utilize a unique unidirectional graphite fiber, Helix construction which allows for less propritary resin to be impregnated into the blank meaning less blank weight. The blank is constructed using a helix wrapping technique of the prepreg graphite on the mandrel for superior hoop strength and lighter blank construction. The result is lighter faster fly rods that cast straighter and farther with less effort.

How do I know how they cast.? I spent 4 hours casting T.L. Johnson fly rods at the International Sportsmens Exposition in January 2010 and another hour casting Terry’s rods at the Denver Fly Fishing Show 2010.

Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
Everything you need for fly fishing
www.110flyfishingtips.com
www.troutadventures.com
Alaska Trout Fishing Information
 

Landon Mayer and Pat Dorsey are presenting "Sight Fishing Tailwaters"

on Wed 2/17/2010 at the High Plains Drifters Meeting.

Time: 7 P.M.

Place: Red & Jerrys located at S. Santa Fe and Oxford.

For those in the Metro Denver Area, suggest you be there early to get a good seat. Or to order food.

This will be a great presentation. See you there.  More information www.hpd-fff.org .

All major fly fishing tackle manufacturers have agreed to stop using felt by 2011. In 2009 Simms came out with their soft rubber Vibram wading boot soles. Aquastealth soles have been around for awhile on Korkers boots and seem to work ok in most circumstances.

So what to do with those old comfortable wading shoes that are perfectly good except for the soles. Call up Rocky Mountain Resole at (719) 539-1455 or fill out their order form and send in your boots for a new set of aquastealth or Vibram wading soles. RMS will "last" your boots on special molds to keep the uppers in that comfortable shape while the resoling takes place. Cost is about $70 plus shipping. Turnaround time is 7 to 10 days.

Rocky Mountain Resole, Inc.
211 Oak Street
Salida, CO 81201
Phone: (719) 539-1455
http://www.rmresole.com/

Rocky Mountain Resole also resoles mountaineering and hiking boots and climbing shoes.

The Rocky Mountain Resole people spent some time explaining some of their process to me. And one of the members in my fly fishing club had boots resoled with the Vibram soles. He said they did a good job.

Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
Everything you need for fly fishing
The Stores at Fly Fishing Colorado
www.110flyfishingtips.com
www.troutadventures.com
Alaska Trout Fishing Information

Gary will supervise design and production  of a series of affordable high performance spinning and casting rods. These 28 rods will be in the 6 ft, 6.5 ft and 7 ft range in one and two piece models. The rods will be outfitted with single foot guides with gold SiC inserts, skeletonized grips and feature fast/progressive actions. Retail Pricing starts at $99.95 and rods are expected to be available in September.

Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Marshall, Editor
www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
Everything you need for fly fishing
The Stores at Fly Fishing Colorado
www.110flyfishingtips.com
www.troutadventures.com
Alaska Trout Fishing Information