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Oil in water = charges Call 1-800-222-6514 and complain... request Alberta Environment or Environment Canada sends out an officer to the site as it is a violation of Sec. 36 of the Fisheries Act. It is the gov'ts responsibility to keep our waterways safe and clean. Better yet complain to the ministers that the local environment folks don't have enough staff, support or budget to protect your drinking water. Cleaning hydrocarbons (oil, gas, etc) from drinking water is expensive... having front line protection would save cities and municipalities money (and save you tax dollars), plus fines could go back into protecting and reclaiming the resource. Sick of this crap.

Lynn, I broke my Maui Jims and had excellent service, similar to yours! The quaility of the lens and the service have me sold for life (I now have 2 pairs for different conditions).

Try to minimize all you handling time and keep the fish in the water for as much as possible. Take the hook out first thing, especially if you have a net. That way if you drop the fish (over water), it doesn't bungee and injure itself. Holding the fish upside down in the water will calm it down... You can then lightly grip it and lift it for the shot. A fish flipping away (to land in water) always tells a story of a lively fish... a fish staring blankly at the camera is boring. Check out this issue of http://www.thisisfly.com for some pointers on gripping fish. there is also the fish handling post pinned in this forum. For a shot of a decent fish when you are alone: Leave it in the net (In the Water), put the camera on a rock away from the water), pointed at you. Use the timer and take a picture. Gently craddle the fish with a loose hand below and a light grip around the narrow part of the tail (where the body meets the fin). You don't have to squeeze at all. When you hear the timer going quick, lift the fish outa the net into the shot. After the picture is taken you can leave the trout in the net in cold slightly flowwing water if you want to look at the picture. Better shots of average/small fish are taken from unique pespectives... or not at all (you don't need pictures of every fish). Low looking up, straight down, close-ups, etc. For these you need (okay, want) a waterproof camera or an SLR. Get a camera man who is at the ready- eye level with the fish. Rianbowhunter, there are some great fish in there!

One spring after a big flood we found a University of Calgary rental canoe wrapped around a tree on the Red Deer... 2 backpacks full of gear and clothes, a dry bag full of water and wet food. No body.

On a lighter solution note... Exxon has finally bought into the biofuel idea. Prelim research has shown that algae can produce large amounts of biofuels (suitable for diesel engines). Think of all the stormwater ponds that could have algae producing fuel instead of having perch from the bucket bozos. Everybody sell you gas cars, push for more diesel engines (bio-diesel ready) in N. America and push for the development of diesel hybrids.... better fuel efficiency, better torque- drive a little slower and pull more with less fuel consumption! There is a reason the diesel is big (as popular or more than petrol) everywhere else.

Starting their spawning runs. Bulls will be on redds soon and into September.

rainbows... redbands... same thing. O. mykiss in Alberta are so mixed you can't tell them apart unless you find a very isolated population. And you can't tell by colour... just like most species, there are variations within (and within subspecies). Also trout can change colour... they have pigment cells that adapt to background colours (shade vs open, red gravel vs blue rock). The parr marks will stay on a fish depending on how fast it matures, genetic variations, and other environmental conditions. There are species/subspecies that keep parr marks, but typically rainbows will lose them after a year or 2. 420, you're catching trout... westslope cutthroats mixed with rainbows from who knows where. Even distributed black spots, white tipped fins, no slash... The trout in that picture is a rainbow trout.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/whose-oc...se-wild-salmon/ I love this line: Addressed to the people of BC, it begins, “I am no longer certain that you want wild salmon, because every level of government that you have elected seems against them.” Corporate Contradiction Sometimes making money can get in the way of having one’s fun. The ex-Norwegian, now Cypriot, tycoon John Fredriksen, an avid fisherman, reached a conclusion that contradicts his 30% ownership in Marine Harvest, the world’s largest salmon-farming corporation: “I am worried for the wild salmon’s future. Fish farming should not be allowed in fjords with salmon rivers.” 6 The world traveller Fredriksen seemed primarily concerned for his homeland’s Alta River: “Neither Iceland or Canada can measure up to Alta. Management of the river, with its exclusive and peaceful fishing spots, is special here.”7 Fredricksen also pointed to a global threat to wild salmon: “Sea lice, infectious diseases and genetic and ecological interactions of escaped farmed salmon with wild salmon are a serious threat to the future of both wild Atlantic and Pacific salmon.”8 Marine Harvest Canada’s communications director Ian Roberts — who once complained, “I believe people are starting to get a little weary of this type of Doomsday prophecy”9 — must have felt befuddled by Fredricksen’s Doomsday prophecy. The Corporate Media, and Salmon Farming On Friday, 31 July, actor William Shatner headlined the front page of the BC capital’s corporate newspaper with his appeal to remove the fish farms.10 Redolent with academic hubris, the TC quoted Brent Hargreaves, “a research scientist from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans who has studied sea lice for six years,” as questioning Shatner’s scientific knowledge to pronounce on wild salmon. Hargreaves also accuses Morton of “a big stretch” in attributing the demise of wild salmon to sea lice from fish farms. He claims there is no evidence that sea lice cause sockeye death. I was surprised by this media slant. Why the focus on sockeye salmon when it was the Broughton Archipelago pink salmon collapse in 2002 that rang alarm bells, and sea lice were sited as the culprit.11 It was pink and chum salmon that Hargreaves studied with his colleague Morton. The writer of the article, Judith Lavoie, said that the editing had distorted the story, and that Hargreaves “was far less adamant than the story indicated – saying there is no evidence [for sea lice causing sockeye salmon deaths], but qualifying it with some of the studies on chums and pinks.”12 Morton replied, “Brent simply means there has been no science to prove that sockeye juveniles can be killed by sea lice. Adult salmon can be killed by sea lice, so it is only a matter of how many. Brent knows sea lice are a serious issue for wild salmon, but he can’t rock the boat. DFO policy is to support the expansion of fish farms and anyone who has a problem with that is sidelined.”13 , 14 Morton agreed she was extrapolating in saying that sockeye smolts — which grow for a year in freshwater and enter seawater fully scaled, as opposed to pinks and chums which go to sea right after hatching and have no scales — can be killed by sea lice. However, Morton says “that does not mean sockeye infested with lice will be fine and will survive and complete their life cycle. It remains, whenever I see a generation infected with lice as they go to sea… They don’t come back in healthy numbers.”13 Morton added, In the same 2 August issue as Morton’s ad, the TC makes the case that “there is little hard information to go on” about the infestation of sea lice on wild salmon.15 Vancouver Island University professor Duane Barker, “an expert in fish diseases and parasites,” is quoted as saying: “recent research data indicates higher levels of sea lice on wild salmon caught in the open ocean away from farms.” Morton noted that there are “tens of papers myself and others from here to Norway have published on extensive research on how this occurs and the impacts”: The salmon-farm mouthpieces defy believability.17 Does the corporate media deserve any trust18 or credibility?19 The TC is a part of the Canwest Global corporation, by no means a moral media beacon.20 Just like the corporate fish farms, the corporate media’s primary motive is profit. Whither Wild Slamon? “Fundamentally,” fish farms are unconstitutional argues Morton “because they attempt to privatize ocean spaces and own schools of fish in the ocean.” Morton offers many solutions. The sine qua non solution is simple, and it has been known for a long time: closed containment systems for fish farms. Writes Morton, “Feedlots belong in quarantine, because they break the natural laws that prevent disease epidemics.” Morton is giving people a chance to make their collective voices heard. She believes people power can protect the wild salmon and is behind an online petition where people can register their vote for wild salmon. The logical choice is clear: a vote for the preservation of wild salmon is a vote for ourselves. Lots of footnotes on the link.

Taco, I don't think the crew made it up that way... I was sent the historic stocking reports (I can't find them though). I do recall that YCT were stocked in the creek. I'll look more. Keith... there is some interesting findings that show that there is a temperature barrier between native cutts and hybrids on one of the Creeks in the south... of course, a 1 deg change in average annual temp could wreak all that. And I don't think brookie supression works to remove brookies, just supress the population. I'd rather see cutties in all these streams, but I'm not sure it'll happen. WCT pops may be at that damaged point that we have to accept polluted genetics and cutts sharing with brookies. I don't think we can do much (fisheries regulations) to stop the Bows and brookies. We anglers as a group can't even get together and petition the gov't to make bigger buffers for logging cuttblocks and to make it illegal to drive OHV's instream, why would they care what we think about native fish... an issue that divides anglers. Back to the original topic... Brookies are mixing with bulls (an issue), but Bows won't.

There are species of bumble bees with orange marks... Carpenter bees too.

I'd recommend leaving them alone or Bee keeper if it's bees. Hornets... shop vac idea sounds great. But... I really like the idea with the snowsuit... just set up a video camera before you do it! Reminds me of my childhood....

Ditto, I have no problems with Wireless to the Wii (for a few years now). It's easier for us because our whole house is wireless. We can run a couple of laptops and then fire up the Wii with no issues.

http://www.itinerantangler.com/podcasts/podcasts/ Rod Episode Twelve: Why Are Fly Rods Getting More Expensive? with Jim Bartschi

I'm fishing with a Z-Axis this season and coughed up for a matching reel.... It was well worth the price to me. Smitty has it bang on> There is a range of prices and you pay for what you want, whether it's a high-end name stick (with quality to back it) or the lower-end stuff (quality still) that will still get you to where the fish are. (The Itinerate Angler has a couple of good recent podcasts on flyrod pricing and technology). Everybody could be driving Hyundai's and Kia's also, wearing $2 shoes, cheap cloths, and living in small 50 year old, 1 room houses. To be upset about the range of fly rod prices is silly when you look at how our society values things.

I would have no poblem with the execution of these idiots... This is something that will rally folks against hunting but also join the hunting community against these idiots. A step back in conservation and a step back in hunting rights. Unfortunately it happens all the time. They must have proud parents. People should have to have a license to have kids....

Just a quick idea... was on a forum that suspended people from posting for a month... maybe any idea. Three suspensions then block the IP.

The gov't buys the landowners out at most gov't constructed damns. For example, you'll see on county maps that the Oldman Reservoir has Provincial Recreational land and crown lease land aroung the outskirts.

Big Bow Trout, excellent leg work!!!

Great idea, Din... hopefully we'll see it on the news before the long weekend gets underway.

Thanks Mike!

Gizmo... Send the Alberta Public Lands Act to the RCMP Supervisor (Cochrane) and a brief situation report. I'd mention that you felt threatened on site and did not feel that the situation was addressed properly, nor did the officer seem to understand the law. It is unlawfull to use deadly force to protect property in Canada and the waterways are public for the most part. If the law enforcement agencies don't know this.... Who hears coyotes and then goes to hunt them with a shotgun anyways??

Water Temp on the Crow was 18 deg on Monday morning... air temp was only 20 deg.

In 1903 the Calgary and Edmonton Land Company Ltd was granted the southern 2 quarter sections that the Sara's B&B is now on. (SW and NW of 17, Twp 7, Rng 2, W5M) The south most of the 3 quarters was granted to Ferdinand S Roberge (He was there in 1901 but I can't find an image of the Land Grant). (SW of 20) Unless the Sara's inherited both properties it is near impossible for them to own bed and bank of all three quarters. I'm not sure how a property could go from company to person and maintain the bed and bank rights, but it would likely have ocurred after Alberta was formed and unlikely that the province would have let that occur. Gary, If they do have Bed and Banks specifically on the title, I would love to see that!! I have never actually seen a land title with it, and only talked to one landowner who actually told me he has one (Land gifted from the queen to his great-whatever-grandfather for his service in the Boer war and NWMP- pre-Alberta, and maintained in the family). I won't mention where it is, cause I don't share my secret streams.

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Bang on, Rusty!!