Harps

Thanks for the update Al!!

HEEED, MOVE! One of the best movies ever. Mike Myers Rocks.

Nightmares of clicking teeth chasing me through dark hallways....

Looks like the diptera larva (especcially Craneflies) commonly found in our S. Alberta streams.

One question... What sort of a world is it when we have to rely on 81 yr old grandma's to do the job the Police should be doing... Of course, my Grandma is scary... when I bit my brother she chased me around the house with her false teeth. Maybe that would change the world for the better.

There's this too.... http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?...amp;#entry31720 Protect the tribs and hillsides, regulate random camping, get some more enforcement down there (TU is talking Streamwatch for the area tonight!!!). . . . . . . . A downturn in the Alberta economy and an increase in gas costs would help... And maybe pull out the road

Come on DBT, That fish is from the Bow...

Actually, if you're coming from vegas (in the spring/summer/early fall), take the pass from the Salt Lake area to Bear Lake, than into the bottom end of the Tetons. Through Jackson Hole, and out W. yellowstone (or up to Mammoth). Beats the interstate, and there are a million great spots to hit on the way!!

Do you bring your rig up that way on Hwy 20? It's a great road, one I like to travel. I take the jaunt from the Henry's all the way into W. Yellowstone (good shops there too), before going on the north road past Quake lake into Ennis. There are always trucks on that route, and I was wondering if its a common alternative to I-15 (slower, though)? Eitherway, for folks travelling south, its a nice side route, worth the little bit of extra time (okay lots of time, cause you stop to fish). Cheers,

Ohhhh that IS a Groaner

Fly shape, current, line location... all play a bigger role than weight. Two really good resources for getting flies down... (spey related, but always applicable) http://www.hooked4life.ca/Fly_Design.html This shows the importance of fly design and sink rate http://flyfishingresearch.net/rulingyourflydepth.html

Looks good, very buggy. Without the weight it'll drift naturally, just throw some weight on the leader. I'd only taper the fly a bit more (bigger thorax) to match some of Toolman's images of Stoneflies (do a search, there are great pictures here). It'll catch fish, eitherway! Cheers,

Yeah, I actually just noticed the sign this fall/winter by the dock... no angling for the carp in Henderson Lake. Like I mentioned, its an expensive fish, and would cost to much if they were all angled out. Grass carp, while they do "browse", also eat invertebrates and, I understand, can be fished for using the typical European method (long rods, boiled corn chumming, etc). It wouldn't take long to clean out a bunch of carp from the lake that way... Great Falls is only 3hrs from here and there are carp...

Full adipose... probably not a hatchery released fish... It is cleaned already, and I think the picture is from Medicine Hat... so not a fresh wild salmon/steelhead... (too skinny to be from Bullshead). Can't see the tail (looks like there are black spots on it though)... makes id more diffficult... what about the gums?

Hey Tango, How much practice did it take to weave those so evenly??? They look absolutely brilliant! I'd like to see the video of you doing it. Mine always turn out lop-sided... Cheers,

I really like that pattern. Very well done. Is that an O. Edwards thing to add the gills along the side like that? I think I've seen some methods like that from him... I think it's great and adds movement in the right place to the fly. The side gills are pretty obvious on caddis in the water. The method is cool, but time consuming... My first attempt at that style (mayfly) doesn't even come close to how those look. I think I need to use different materials as the gills...

They're there as weed control, and too much money went into them for them to be removed by angling. Grass carp are (or were, I haven't been there for awhile) raised at the aquaculture centre in the Lethbridge college campus. They have an excellent facility there, and they do research on raising different fish. Grass carp were an experimental weed control project while I was there, and now I think they are sold for dugout and other waters, not connected to natural waterbodies, as an alternative to chemical and pysical weed removal. there is a website I believe, if you do a quick google search. As an aside, I thing Henderson in Lethbridge needs cattails and shoreline vegetation before it is ever a really healthy lake. It is cool to sit there in the spring and watch the carp pods moveing along the shore in spawning mode. Cheers,

Hey Troutlover, I've watched the carp spawning in the river in Great Falls... some monsters there, be great on a long rod. Anybody who gets a chance should take you up on the offer and wade flats after the "golden bones".

I had a blast fishing carp on the great lakes and waters in S. Ontario... absolutely awesome! I don't want carp here (very bad for the environment, rooting up vegetation and stuff), but I WOULD fish them if they were. I fish the goldfish in my mother-in-laws pond near Sundre... they take chronomids.

And you can't angle many of the stocked carp (ie the ones in Lethbridge).

http://thinkwater.ca/ These 2 posters rock http://thinkwater.ca/images/posters_pdf/THINKWATERnate.pdf and http://thinkwater.ca/images/posters_pdf/TH...TERkristina.pdf What type of fish in the first poster...

Great flies to use, Easy to tie (for fishing). One thing about these... if tying a silk or flosss body, keep it short, that way you prevent the material from sliding off the hook bend, especially when hit by fish). (not a critique of your flies LS, the bodies are pretty short, just a general observation). These flies fish great at the tail of a riffle where caddis would be rising. I love fishing these, and they take up ualot of my box. Cheek out Donald N's site for a great reference of Soft Hackles: http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/ Also http://www.flymph.com/ has some great stuff on soft-hackles and flymphs in general. Definately under-appreciated flies! Nice work

Looks like I'll have tape on hand and check the ferrule to see if they're twisting. People over on that speypages have been split one way or the other. I'm nervous about wreaking the finish as much as cracking the rod. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the info guys.

I thought you were up there with Clive chasing the age of dirt... Don't you remember fishing native cutts with bison around??

OMG Those are great!! Number 6 applies to SO MANY people I know...