Taco

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

Aversion training.... let the cougar bit any random Calgarian and it'll take weeks for him to get the taste outta his mouth and he'll never try again :P Works on coyotes for sheep B) Wadda want them to do?? Get rid of all the random wildlife? Unfortunately it's people and urban areas encroaching on the wildlife's territory not the other way around.

There smartass Now the rest of the world will know we've "lost it" Your's Truly Taco HowMuchDoesCentralAirCostCauseI'mGettingBitchy Hansma

You got an evil mind.......... ............. go back to whatever you were doing and I'll figure out how to edit that post

Ouch! Been there, Done that! Don't want the flippin' T-shirt. Heal.

Killin time Weedy?? :D

so how come sh it becomes shite when you don't use the space bar half way through?? I kinda dislike Big Brother software

Post edited, the PS comment was aimed @ the Admin

Same sh it different day Weedy, Same sh it different day........... In all honesty I've gotten so sick of " The Sky is Falling" and "End of The Known World" scenarios that I'm down to doing what's good for my local environment and my bottom line and f*** the rest. <_< PS This AutoCensoring Software Program is f***ingbullshitboys whadda think we are?? effin' merkins??? Edited by Taco to clarify a point

Bingo!!! Give the man a prize!

Sick buncha pussies -_-

May be ok in this case........... those look more like yellowstones.... Pure natives are a bit of a rarity in the National Parks system, the Feds did a lot of "improving" in the past.

Couple more...... A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered dolphins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of seagulls. One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and trap some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road. Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. He was immediately arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for immortal porpoises. A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies with the assistance of a tribal brujo who indicated that the leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation. When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the brujo looked him in the eye and said, "Let me tell you, with fronds like these, who needs enemas?"

A skydiver bails outta a plane, when he pulls the rip cord his main chute won't open. Not panickin' he tries his reserve chute... it won't open. Still not panickin' but damn good and nervous wonderin' what the hell he's gonna do when he glances over and happens to see a guy headed the other way at about the same speed. The skydiver hollers at the guy "HEY, YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT @#*&%$&*^ PARACHUTES??" The guy hollers back "NO.....YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT @#*&%$&*^ GAS BARBECUES???"

Contact Sage, toll free at (800) 533-3004, they may be able to help but the RPL+ is a rod 10 yrs out of production... sorry to say but carbon fibre rods are pretty much unrepairable if broken.... the original owner could send it back and you'll most likely end up with a new replacement rod.

305 posts........................??....................... I think that means you have no life :D

Nah Grizz gives me hell and tells me to settle down all the time via PMs :P

That's hilarious summer/fall of 2000 just for the hell of it, I walked and fished the entire length of the L'stone and I think I ran into more bears than flyfishers. Took me about 16-18 fishing days, probably averaged 50 fish a day 12" or better until I got above the Falls, no rainbows or cutbows , never had to resort to nymphing, majority of fish caught on a sz14 Bastard Adams. The next summer I started to run into guys that were about pissin' themselves over how good the fishin' was and the summer after that it took off. I don't bother to fish it much anymore.

Allen's Trout Farm on Lott Ck is where the arctic char escaped from. http://www.troutchar.ca/index.htm

IMO 5 yrs ago was worse but it's startin to pickup steam again http://members.shaw.ca/clives/camping_2.html 2002 there was @ at least 6 of these camps on the NW Banch Rd... last week...2 that I saw, one with an occupancy permit.

Holy smoly! A Mike ! time for a beer

Talked to the SRD office in Pincher...said he'd have someone look into it today

Ditto... been up the rd 3-4 times.

New Minister runs a bit of a different show..he shut down that Willow Creek boondoogle fast enough.

I see somebody built himself a low budget track on Racehorse. I wonder if it's legal, gonna make some calls tomorrow.