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Borrow a cell and go down there and phone yourself.... if you're anything like my kids you'll have something loud and obnoxious as a ringtone and you should be able to hear it from at least 300 metres. No need to thank me and good luck

Actually its the size of the spots, they're bigger than the norm for Alta WSCT. Caught a dozen and a half outta there and they're just like peas in a pod. Thought @ first these had some yellowstone genetics but now I ain't sure. The stream was stocked with cutts in the 20's and 30's then received periodic stocking of rainbows until 89. Probably just another spotting phase.. from almost no spots like BBTrout's cutt to heavily spotted like on the Liv and the OM to this and mostly testing DNA pure. Damn things are all over the map as spotting patterns goes. Remember that thread BBBrent, back on crybaby's BB about that ongoing UofL study. Another thing.. see how dark the fish are, late in the yr to be that dark. Pics where taken Aug !st Sorry for the ramblings, got chased outta my fishin' holes and now I'm spending too much thinkin' and Maxwell....north of #3 but south of 520 Take Care and someone do a rain dance

Jeez Dave I said it before...chuck norris is a puddy tat.

Whats wrong and/or different about this westslope cutt? and there's no need to criticize my photographic skills

Been there dun that... try that this wk and ur liable to get a chopper to drop 400 Litres of H2O on yer azz

Oh come on Paul tell us what you really think Money Paul its all about money... money talks and bullshit walks. A billion dollar development, tax dollars for the MD, someone getting wealthier, what did you think was gonna happen? I like the quote from the old farmer in todays Herald "Water's gonna be the next oil" and you know...he's right. 300 million people south of us are gonna demand it!

What? talk clearer with her mouth full?? I don't think I'd worry about perch in a large river full of large finned predators but that wasn't the issue. Perch in the Bow are a provincially regulated sportfish and "huck em in the bush" is illegal...period. Does "huck em in the bush" mean that I can, in all good conscious, go to a stream where the brookies have crowded out the cutts and the bulls and start firing them fukkinwaterrats into the trees?? I wouldn't think so.

Holy crap is right...ouch! Think I stick to bullfightin' or kickin' pitbulls in the nuts for my jollies..... safer

Gawd I hate people with talent and patience.

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Caught my first ever 20" plus Southern Alberta cutt out of the bottom of that pool on a shitty dizzily BWO type day Sept/2000. Fair hike from the bottom to the top of the pool too unless you want to swim. Thanks Max

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Well I got a last afternoon of fishing in, good one too, had to move the road block outta the way to get out of the Porkies, hope we a 3 day rain soon. Christ it's dry!

Rabbi, I like your style, come to the wild Canadian west sometime and we'll fish together. Fishing and flyfishing have meant various different things to me through the years but nowadays it comes down to this; fishing is my only remaining connection to the land, when I hold a wild native fish in my hand I am reconnecting with that land. I'm gonna miss it when I can't wander these streams anymore.

Good picks.. Steve Earl, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Corb, Jerry Jeff, Wayne the Train, Townes is cool, Metallica, Stevie Ray, Clapton ...oh hell what I should do is but a 30gig ipod and a fm transmitter but in reality my Sirus radio is pretty much welded to Outlaw.. too country for rockandroll too rockandroll for country :D

I like sound of a nice aluminum better... that nice metallic TONK is sweeeett sound

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Smack a deer @ 300k and I'd say they'd have a little trouble sortin'...... little bit of deer, little bit of Dave, little bit of deer, little bit of Dave over about a Km stretch of 22

And thats better? Jeezz

Damn you Clive and your siggy gif...... I just smacked my puter screen to try and kill the "bug" :rolleyes:

Bingo! Perch are a naturally occurring species in the Bow, there long before any of the "introduced" species and subject to all it's checks and balances. The regs state 15 in possession not 15 in the bush.

Perch? If they're yellow perch, which I assume they are, they belong in the Bow River just as much as pike and walleye and are classed as game fish thus fall under the regulations. FFS Peace you get on my case about culling?

It is, you don't need a two handed rod to spey cast.

It don't??? I got fishin' equipment I bought with those words....LMAO

Interesting questions Rich and not contentious in the least IMO. I'll do my best to answer but it will be from my perspective of fishing southwestern Alberta flowing waters over the past 40 some yrs ... other people's mileage may vary. What were the regs before? Take all the fish you like? 10 trout, 15 pike, 10 'eyes, 30 perch, 100 whitefish. The smaller foothill and mountain streams were closed to fishing on alternative yrs. Example; Racehorse/closed, Dutch/open one yr, the next yr the opposite all up and down the ES. Fish were considered more of a food source than a recreational resource for most people IMO. You also have to remember the population of the Province was about a 1/3 of what it is now. What were the stocking programs like for streams? Both levels of Senior Government were actively stocking mostly non-native fish in flowing waters as late as 1989(?) How were the regs implemented? Phased approach? The regs are always in a state of flux or should be, as needs or knowledge changed so did the regs but at a governmental pace. Were there less fish caught?Yes and no. When a ck opened for the season fishing would be pretty good but the more popular areas would get fished out pretty quick. I remember as a kid, people I considered oldtimers telling me "Such and such will never get fished out...too damn hard to fish" and I quickly caught on; the tougher the access the better the fishin'. Another side note; when I used to mention to those same oldtimers that I'd had a good days fishin' up SoandSo, they'd usually seemed to answer "Yeah but you shoulda been here in the old days...that was fishin'!" Smaller fish caught? Yes, they never had a chance to get big if they got bonked was soon as they reached legal size. That said there is such a thing as carrying capacity. The NW branch of the OMR was closed to fishing for 10 yrs or more, opening again in 1964. My old scout master tells me that they used to parked at the campground, walk to the falls and fish back to campground using a 3 wet fly rig, damn near every swing was a double or triple header but no fish was over 10" long. Stream had too many fish for any of them to get any bigger. More land erosion/degradation/pollution/garbage on the streams because people were less conscious of their impacts? Same old round and round. People were definitely were less conscious of their impact but there was less of an impact because there was less people......make sense? I think it's worse now. Water quality improved? Yes but that can cut two ways; less pollution=less fertilizer for plant life= less bugs= smaller and fewer fish. And no, too many demands on a very limited resource. Insect life changes? see above More/less people on the waters? Way more people but I still can find places where it's just me and some bear tracks. Take Care