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Hey everyone well I got out west for the second week in a row this past weekend. Although the weather was much nicer it was actually harder to find good clean fish-able water this weekend. I had my daughter with me on the trip and we camped over at a couple different spots. I managed to get a little brown trout action on the dry fly just before dark on the first night. The next day we headed further west where I could introduce my daughter to some pristine waters and a place that is very special to me. At one spot I let her have a shot with my fly rod and she managed to catch and release her first ever Bull Trout. Before the adventure was over I had a rematch with the bull trout that eluded me last week and well all I'll say is a lot of people have told me that big Bull trout don’t really like dry flies .... I don’t think that is true .... you be the judge. Here are some moving pictures for you to enjoy. Cheers!!

Epic moment when that big Bull takes the Stimmie, Diddy! Classic Dad situation, too, almost panic in your voice as you call "Riv! Riv!" You and NWA Jr are living in a charmed covid bubble. FIsh on!

The rescission of the coal policy means that Category 2 lands are now available for coal leasing, and only that - leasing. There are a great number of coal leases in this province that have been in effect for decades, that have seen absolutely no development activity on them at all. Coal rights leasing is different in AB from O&G in that regard, in that in O&G, you have to undertake certain activities (e.g., drilling) to continue to hold licenses/leases. With coal, as long as you pay your annual rental fees, you can sit on a coal lease indefinitely. Should this company wish to actually advance this development, they still have to go through the Alberta Environment approval process, and, for a mine of this size, now the new Federal Impact Assessment Act (yes, the infamous "Bill C-69" that has ruffled so many Alberta feathers on other fronts of late). Thus, likely a joint review panel process. The first step in this review process is stakeholder consultation to define the terms of reference for the impact assessment. To my mind, the angling/outdoors community is much more likely to have a meaningful say/effect by providing input into that review process, when/if the time comes, rather than try to get the current government to do anything with respect to this coal policy rescission. This looks like an Australian penny stock mining company, whose value trades on news with respect to their "projects" - that sword cuts both ways, i.e., negative news (e.g., tough going on environmental approvals, due to credible stakeholder opposition) has a way of causing these sorts of things to go away...

More great memories made...I too have fond memories from the Tinda as we had many annual trail ride vacations centered from the Bighorn campground in the 80s and 90s. I slowed down the vid to watch that bully come straight up for the take. Well done GBD and River.

You mean, like 93% of westslope getting wiped out in the upper fording? https://thenarwhal.ca/teck-resources-elk-valley-mines-bc-fish/ Absolutely we can be NIMBYs when it comes to the eastern slopes and Kenney doing this with zero consultation.