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Made it out on Tuesday with timj and his son Matt. Fishing was ok, company was excellent. My son Ben caught most of the fish. He kills me when we dry fly fish, which is perfectly ok with me. Here is a little cuttie and Ben hooked up, again. Made it out golfing at Greywolf on Wed. I stuck one inside of 3 ft on #6, which is supposedly the most photographed golf hole in Canada. That's my ball less than 3 ft away. Missed the putt though. Story of my golf life. Below that is the view from #4 box: Leaving Panorama today, back to Calgary for a quick turnaround, then off to Houston Saturday! Some saltwater fish on the fly rod are in my immediate future!

Ok, so I have 3 email addresses and voted for both the girls, and Dustin too so I wouldn't get accused of reverse sexism. Good luck ya'll.

Now that looks fun!

FNG- No. A bit further south. Teck- Not classified water, though there is plenty of that up here too. Tungsten- Elitist! Actually, we did dry fly fish quite a bit. It was not productive at all. We did not see a fish come up all afternoon as it was rainy/very overcast and like 18. I will say the I had one hit my indi and so did Ben. We both switched over to dries again, but it seems all they wanted was orange and round!

Nice pics there Steve-o. The dog ones made me laugh. Pretty tough hombre.

Sounds like a girl fish. Its always the damn hormonal imbalance that does it!

Here are some shots from my Panorama trip to date. We've only really fished one day, today, in the rain. It was awesome to get out with both of my sons and to have my youngest to fly fish on his own a bit. It was pretty tough casting with lots of cover behind and very, very fast water in most places. We did get a few, but couldn't really find anything looking up. Anyway, here are some shots. And to those who are asking where to fish around Invermere, Radium... all you have to do is get a mapbook and go explore The fishing is just fantastic here. Fish are where fish are supposed to be! The only down side right now is finding fishable water cuz everything is still high and very fast. But find a pool, or a slower moving run, and you'll find fish. Wyatt rocking ole yeller: Ben stressing out the 3 wt Kids always find frogs.... Eagles! The girls yesterday:

What's funny is I have been stopped a couple of times for surveys, but never once in my life, anywhere in the world, have I ever been checked for my license. Considering the number of trips, that has to be statistically impossible.

Do not think it is an accident that you ask that question on the 1st day you hook a couple of trout. If you are not getting hung up, and have to bust off now and then, you are not fishing deep enough. It is critical to be on bottom. If you are on bottom, you will get hung up from time to time. I wrote this a couple of months ago. I was just like you 3 yrs ago, struggling to learn this river. This was my attempt to jot down what I think I've learned: http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?...amp;#entry88003

Thanks Marc! The Longest Silence by Thomas McGuane. Great book.

Love Ames and Geirach. I read a book called The River Why by David James Duncan (bcube lent it to me) that I really liked. Bcube actually has a book of mine (not the Ames one Brent, the other one) that I can't remember the name or author. If he is around, maybe he can put the title and author up. It's really good as well.

Yowza! Fantastic fish.

So I fished water this morning that I fish quite often. While it doesn't particularly lend itself to czech nymphing, the lesson did remind me to really fish the water close to me hard. So I high sticked (stuck?) the run much more thoroughly than I normally do. And hello Brown Trout! Not that I hooked more fish than I normally do, but I did hook bigger fish. Anyway, I highly recommend this course to anyone. It will teach you to look at water a bit differently. All that said, I have some really fast water in mind for this.........

[[insert raspy inhale voice]] Fixed it dude.

My wife is starting to get fed up with the early morning fishing (if I went in the evening, I'd get 0 sleep!). She does not care that I'm tired at work, but that I'm tired at home. If this stupid river would just stop fishing so damn good!!

So apparently Marc Emery, the "Prince of Pot" is going to jail in the US for distributing pot a,d money laundering. Here are a couple of quotes "Sometimes being in jail, the right person like me can insire people to get angry and to get motivated, to do something to take up the cause.". Cuz as everyone knows, pot smokers are known for their anger and motivation! And this gem: "I'm always shocked how many people in our movement still don't vote, still don't think it is worthwhile." Really Marc? Out of curiosity, have you ever spoke to anyone in your movement? Would have thought you may have picked up on a touch of apathy. Im just sayin. No offense to some members here, but seriously. This guy is utterly hysterical.

The truth is that if it hadn't been a "class", we surely would have switched. That said, I don't think it is an accident that we got several pretty pretty large fish for the body of water AFTER groups had been through that water. And yeah Jay, that was a pig of a rainbow. Tim seemed surprised that it was pulling as hard as it was. When I went down below and saw it, I said "you are going to be shocked at how big this fish is!!" But really, most of them were fat-what with chowing down on stones and salmonflies!!

Fished with the 10 footer on the Crow, czech nymping and back on the Bow this morning high sticking, roll casting, and tossing some long casts at some outer seams. Love the rod! I got to handle a really nice, fat 22" brown with it this morning. Fun, fun, fun.

Nice start to the season guys!

Thanks for the pics marc. I'm just trying to figure out if I'm better looking low holing, head of run hogging, or hole jumping. That Amundson looks good, don't it! I've been looking for a picture of you with a fish. Can't seem to find one.

I think that guy had more hair! And the low holing didn't work.

Hit the Crow today to learn how to Czech Nymph with John Bransfield teaching. I was joined by reellife (tim) and headscan (marc). We had a blast learning this technique on this gorgeous body of water. Only problem was all the damn hatches going on distracting us! Actually, it is not easy, nor effective to cast salmon flies on a like 20 ft mono leader with 6 lb maxima (and a 10 ft 6 wt rod!!) Got some refusals and a couple of misses, but mostly we did stick with the nymphing and lots of fish, some very nice, were caught. The biggest was caught by Tim, and is pictured below along with some other shots from the day. I'm sure Marc and Tim have more. Thanks guys for the great time, and thanks John for the lesson. BTW, I HIGHLY recommend taking this course as it it highly effective and goes to help fund the Junior National Team; Finally, ignore any forthcoming posts about "low holing" or 'hole jumping" or "head of run hogging." First stop: The boys rigging up: Hard to nymph with these flying around...... A little rain never hurt anyone, but hail can be tough on the fly rod! Tim's big fish:

Here is what she looks like all 'bowed up:

Yes, the rod is a custom build. I did not think it was the still water series, but when I look on their website it looks like the stillwater is the only 10 footer. Whatever the case, I got the blank sent to me directly from Jack. I saw on their website that Wholesale carries them?

Brown trout would be good.