Harps

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!?!).

Hi Frank, Good to hear from you. Loved the bit on Late Season Grayling in the last Mag. My last fishing trip in Alberta before the snow flew, was for grayling up in the Slave Lake neck of the wood. My fiancee got her first garyling... and her first fish on a fly. Hey, did anything come outa that issue up on the Smokey?? I lost track of what was going on up there. Cheers, Paul

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.

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,