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There are certainly larger fish in the lower sections... there is also more water, it's harder to fish for them. And they aren't as easy to catch as the fish in higher elevations. Fish in higher elevations/less productive waters need to eat as much as they can through the shorter growing season. They are less selective, especially compared to the larger fish lower in the watershed that can afford to select the most energy efficient means of feeding (eating things with hooks isn't energy efficient).

Ian C. James tyes excellent and very effective flies. I met him in Fergus one spring and he gave me some henchmen to try. Awsome caddis pattern. I use it quite often here. He's got an excellent website, worth a read for the comedy. If you get a chance, losten to him give a presentation. Hillarious. Thanks for the info John, best of luck in the nationals.

Had a great time, ladies and gents... It was great to put a face to all those names. Next time around, I won't get lost looking for coffee. BIG Thanks to Rick for hosting, even bigger to his wife, Jackie!!!

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?

Fisher26, I think the rod is useless now... I'll take it off your hands if you want. I won't charge you too much for a disposal fee. I have a rod with a couple of hairline cracks and one that looks like a crack right on a ferrule. Its held up for 2-3 more seasons without breaking since I noticed them.

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.

http://www.gov.ab.ca/home/NewsFrame.cfm?Re...E01B01EE07.html The other side... http://www.concernedaboutcbm.org/cbm/

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...

Or the loss of water?? Every where in Alberta, this is becoming an issue. Water for snow-making, lawns, toilets, fountains, people... or water for fish.

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