Taco

Excellent Excellent Article! Everyone who wants to spend time in bear country should read that especially the "guns are way better than pepper spray" crowd. As someone who used to routinely one shot drop running 'yotes, I far prefer to carry a large can of pepper spray when fishing in bear country.

I ain't from Kalgree nor am I one of the overly protective bridge city bunch

Yeah looks like we're finally gettin' our june rain

No worries onthefly7. Ray and I were just bein' sarcastic to each other...fish away, the bullies are in various rivers anywhere from Grande Prairie south but just don't lip 'em

I wouldn't worry about it onthefly7, there is no such thing as a stupid question, only dumb answers.

YES! SIR! SERGEANT! SIR!!!!!!!!!!

even the fish below the dam are Castle fish Ray, upper old man fish don't stray much below the gap falls and basically spawn in 1 stream anymore. i know they useta spawn in south racehorse too because i useta catch a lot of juvey bulls up there but don't anymore because of a big logjam just upstream of where north and south racehorse join. castle fish have been found as high as maycroft and all throughout the lower drainage. yes i was @ the same lecture sarge

Well I'm gonna piss some people off (and I really could care less) without a doubt the Castle system hold the biggest and the most migratory bulls of all the rivers in Southern Alberta.

FI...... duct tape

Tough losing a dog, a good dog is our buddy. It never get any easier no matter how many dogs you've had over the yrs.

Buy a new can and use the old one for practice shots so you can see what it's capabilities are. Don't try it in your basement, I used an old can on some noisy dairy bulls and that's when I found not to use it indoors if you don't hafta.

Excellent work Bandee

keep it and use it.... you'll swim better circles

:D

good way to lose an index finger

Made you wanna stand testicle deep in some water holdin' a 10' graphite rod over your head did it?

Cause Yankee bears can't cross the 49th parallel without a passport.

And it were goood, little buggers are still spawnin' up high though, different but not that unusual.

It ain't fresh so keep fissin'... only time to be worried 'bout bear *hit is when the bear's still humped up.

Tex has got it, it's all about the strike, I just prefer it do it with hair and feathers, beyond that I could care less how you fish. I'm going fissin' now.....

Huh, learn somethin' every day, and here I thought the lime was to hid the skunk in stale Mexican beer bottled in clear glass. But what the do I know, my definition of a good beer is free and here... if I'm real picky, cold

ur still a punk kid mang...nice set of pics BTW

Tex is goin' Brokeback on us Rev

I was south'ish of calgary in the foothills and I was more than a little surprised @ the water temp but the water flow are abnormally low for the time of the yr. We need a week of rain badly. I'm hopin', since spring was about a month or so late, that maybe the scheduled June rains are about to wash out 2/3rds of the Calgary Stampede.

I was on a stream yesterday and the water temp was 70F or 21C by 2:30 pm, time to start watchin' water temps if you dont wanna killin' fish. We need a week of rain.