Harps

Found by a guy from New Zealand fishing in Alberta... it's like the sheep knew it and high-tailed (actually tuck-tailed) it outa there... Give me Lethbridge anyday... I can't even handle a Sunday drive for coffee in Calgary without getting lost.

If you know where the stocked trout are, and you know where the osprey are feeding, I think you could set it up. With no wasting film, you take as many pictures as it takes to get the shot. http://miguel-lasa.smugmug.com/ You can't set up shots like alot of his... can you?

West coast: http://www.flyfisherman.com/westerncanada/...astaquaculture/ East Coast: http://www.canflyfish.com/2007/Nov07-Conservation.asp Fish farms can be a problem on both. ; and inland... look at the char release on the Elbow a few years ago and the net tears on Lake Diefenbaker (http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=6e36127f-13a4-400c-bbd3-4a4c6afb7411).

I'll bring coffee... where's the nearest Tim's?? Also my better looking, more logical half is going to be working on a research paper (read: sleeping in), so she won't be by.

I'd say brook trout are one of the prettiest fish, when they're where they belong.

Looks like I wil be there after all.... Wow, anglers of Calgary unite.

I thought Clive or Al may need a jab in the ribs... I threw the Brook trout in for Taco. Gotta stay awake somehow today... I hate office review times.

Bigfoot or not, The full sized landscape shot is very, very cool. It looks like Death Valley. I love how you can see the wind shaped dunes and the layered rock formations. Geological process that you see on earth, but on a different planet!!! If only the martians had heeded the scientists advice and worked to stop climate change... the fishing could have been awesome (especially when humans would have introduced brook trout).

I'd like to see some pictures of those tidy fly boxes. Dr Bulltrout's boxes are immaculate!! Maybe he'll pleasure us with a picture... . . . . . . . Is it wrong to get such pleasure outa looking at other peoples Fly boxes... ???

Awesome Snakeman!! It's a great drive (I've driven from Lethbridge to Guelph and back a few times). And there are some great rivers to fish that you cross. You did good for a quick stop at a bridge. Ahhh the diversity of fishing in Ontario.

Sometimes they end bad in the morning . No, its a long drive to Calgary in the morning then back to Lethbridge for dinner. Really is to bad... I was looking forward to haveing a fight with the token (ex)Yankee on the board. I'll get up there one day...

I'd like to go for longer, but its not in the cards this year... just Sat morning for me. I'll be around the FFC table for a while, so stop in and chat (pictures of me in my profile and the webpage link.

I wish I could... but I've got a curry dinner with my fiancees boss on Sunday (why I'm aloud to go to the FF expo on Sat). Eat a stack for me!!

They didn't ask me!?! I'd like to see the survey (or a link) too.

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/mnr/csb/news/2006/aug1nr_06.html Individual aurora trout, pure aurora's, are fished for... raises awarness. No harm to the population, no charges for people fishing. Areas can be open for fishing under these exceptions: Continued angling raises awarness of the species, as does discussion about it in all media. C&R is a reasonable measure to minimize impact on the species in places where its population is not threatened. Angling will not jeopardize the survival or recovery of the species. I personally don't believe that the gov't will take away fishing, and like I keep pointing out, hybrids aren't Westslope Cutthroats, they won't be protected under SARA. I can't say what the decisions will be (alot of that depends on Public Comments!!!), but research in the states is against listing hybrids, and as far as I know most of the cutts people angle, are hybrids (or stocked outa their range). Like Taco says... maybe 7000 individual reproducing aged pure cutthroats... I'm seriously scared they will be gone. Soon. There's nothing natural left in the lower and mainstems of the rivers... the onlything to protect there is the right to fish, and that's not threatened (not seriously, anyways). BTW, Glad to see you here, Neil. Even more happy that folks express an opinion, one way or another. Nothing will ever happen with out discussion and views from either side. And I like to argue, one way or another. What's the deal with the Coast Guard stuff on the Ram??

That would be good... I can always go for a beer!! Does anybody have a venue map, kind of a where is everything set-up, including the bar??

Slower pools on meadows (with vegetation right to the bank)... pulled across stream like a vole trying to cross. Also, we caught quite a few Northern water shrews along bull trout streams when I was helping forestry research in the Pass. I think they have a very high metabolism (which may be why we found them dead sometimes), and they have to eat alot... that means they are in the water quite a bit. http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/mammals/fre...ounts/shrew.htm Image from: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site..._palustris.html Of course, like mentioned on this forum before... mice used to be used as bait for Bulls.

Since I started flyfishing hard 10 years ago: 3x a license check in the Cypress Hills area, almost every time I fish there somebody has stopped to chat. 3-4x in the Oldman area (above 22). Never on the Crow, but some of the CO's I know have stopped to chat. Once towards the upper Castle, may have stopped 'cause he recognized me. 2x on water between the Oldman and Calgary. Once in Med Hat. A couple of times in various parks around the province (excluding Elkwater). Since the split, I've talked to more park guys thaan F&W, although the F&W folks have always been quick to respond when I call them, whether its bears, cougars, or poachers. I remember lots of stops when fishing with my dad... but I think its because it wasn't common to see black anglers in the bush in S. Alberta in the 70's, 80's, and 90's...

esleech, our province has always been a part of Canada, and the Feds have always been involved. The RCMP (NWMP) used to enforce (or fail to enforce) the Fisheries Act. DFO has always been the agency to deal with large habitat losses. Navigable Waters has always protected your right to use the water. The Feds did the first stockings, the province finished them... it's how things are and were. Everything goes alot smoother if everybody works together... and I'll tell you, the listing of cutthroats isn't just a Federal gov't thing. The province is Heavily involved. So are Universities across Canada. The provice have listed the species at risk, but Federal legislation offers better protection. http://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/fishwildlife/status/pdf/WCTR.pdf This is the provincial document on Cutts... look at the list of acknowledgements and look at the cooperation. Here is Alberta's listing process. If anybody or agency deserves credit, its SRD. This isn't the bandaid. This is the first treatment.

Wow... All kidding aside, that's too bad. Knight's Tale is one of my fiancee's favourite, and she loves hime for his role (not as much as she likes the naked guy, though!?!).

I like the SA line dressing... I don't clean my lines near often enough, but it makes a big difference when I do. For leaders and tippets, its a degreaser... liquid soap, glycerine, and fullers earth (fine clay, often used in cheap catlitter). Sinks the leader, or at least lets it cut through the surface tension.

I'm not familiar with what you mean?? Good fishing for cheap... Nat'l mountain Parks right now... no bait, no lead, No keeping cutts or Bulls in Banff?? Parks Canada is a whole different department than Fisheries and Oceans and the province is in charge of fishing regulations outside of the Nat'l Parks. You'll have to explain that one more and provide some info.

Taco has it. The feds can stop the harm of cutthroats... but like you said Taco, 1% bow is all it takes to turn a population into a genetic mess of hybridization. Fisher26, On the other thread indicated above is a link to the SARA workbook, where you can send in your comments, concerns, and questions. One thing it states in there... Like I said before, the fish most of you angle for are NOT cuttthroats... Esleech, ya have to read all of it, and the info posted here... you'll have tons of fishing, and there is still years of review still anyways. And trout like fish is a good description for people around the world that know what brown trout are, or sea trout, or rainbow trout, or brook trout, but have never heard of a westslope cutthroat trout.

You can read my response on the Lethbridge board... http://goneflyfishin.ca/forum/index.php?topic=34.0 In short, only pure populations will be protected, won't affect fishing in the Castle, the Bow, the Lower Oldman, those populations are polluted with rainbow genetics. Recent work in the States on protecting their cutthroat populations (yes they are becoming endangered all over), has determined its pointless to protect populations with hybrids, because once they are in... you can never get the rainbow genes out.

www.ab-conservation.com/about_us/Reports_publications/conservation/other%20collaborative%20reports/stewardship_license_report-quinn.pdf A report about how to change the license structure in the East Slopes. Too bad when the license costs go up they don't put something like this in place. I'm all for a ES stamp with a Fisheries test.