nickt
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ok well you win. those cutties are bigger looking now. i will give it to yah. and the bullie looks a lot bigger now that it is off your camera lcd screen. wish i was there. looked like you could have used a camera guy.
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if that doesnt mke you wanna get out, then nothin does
nice job
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in my opinioni think it is ludacris to get annoyed at guides for tking all of the hot spots. they were there first, they earned it. here is my thinking, if it was not a guide at the hotspot it would be you. what makes you from being the jerk with the hot spot now? there is lots of water on the bow, and yes there is hot spots but the fish do reside all over the place andare catchable. besides everyone is always nagging about how there is no solitude out there, well explore other spots rather than prime locations and you will finally get that solitude. thats my 2 cents
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haha i have seen bigfoot. he was hidden on my kokanee bottle.
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last i heard there was no more renting alowed for hikers, it was just for the quests now. that is a trip i have been hoping to do for a couple years now so if anyone wants to hook up i am in
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unfortunatly no. he was a bit of a bleeder so iwanted to get him back in as quick as possible so he could make it another day.
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so i was out prospecting new waters on saturday on a small little southern alberta creek and i hooked into the wierdest fish ever. it was really wormlike almost like a dollie or bull would be, but it was definatly a rainbow. it was not anything like a rainbow shape and has a really really blunt nose. it was slimy as well. i know there are buls in this creek. does anyone know if the bulls and bows are able to cross, it really seemed to me that it was a cross. i also caught a sweet brown that was at least 20''
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i've found a couple of the lake names...if anyone can help me identify Unknown 1 in particular, i'd appreciate it.
thank you.
checkedit out on my gps program and it says they are all lac cote. hope that helps you out. seems like it is just 4 tiny lakes that were given the same name. kind of like picklejar lakes.
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-if you are looking for another ontario-ite i would be more than happy to head out with you. I have been fly fising for a fair number of years now and could hopefully offer something. if interested send me a pm
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being it is the last 6" is completely shattered the best you can do is to cut the rod just below the break cleanly (use the edge of a flat file and ring cut it) find a tip top that fits and epoxy it it place. All rod builders can do it but you should be able to get it done on your own.
hey thanks a lot i guess i have some searching to do to find a tip top that matches the design. does this effect the strength at all? it seems like it would become a stress point.
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does anybody repair graphite rods? i have an old rod passed down from my father that means a lot to me and my brother in law accidentally broke it. it is a 2 piece rod and the last 6 inches or so is broken into smitherines. is this possible to be fixed at all. any help would be much appreciated.
nick
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simple yet effective. nice
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pretty sweet. i have a version similar to that one. nice and simple arent they.
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looks like a nice but rough adventure. nice pics
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i am jealous
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I dont eat much fish but was considering keeping a couple from the lake yesterday. My question is how do you filet & cook a Rainbow Trout? & is this a standard method for other types of fish in Alberta.....Trout, Pike, Walleye, White's etc?
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personally i do not fillet trout. they have such small bones you will be eating a ton of them or just wasting a lot of meat. i throw em on the bbq wrapped in tin foil with a bit of lemon juice squeezed all around and mybey a wedge or 2 in the stomach cavity. then cook til it flakes. then i like to open up the foil for a few minutes to cook it so it slightly crispens it up. just so i is not really soggy from all of the moisture. for other fish to fillet them i start by cutting just behind the gill from top to bottom and thn continue to slice along the bakbone until i hit the depth of the rib cage. do that for the length of the fish and then as you pull up on the meat you simply just scrape your knife along the ribcage until you can take that side of meat off. repeat for the other side. then to scale them you put it on a board scales down and hold on to the tail area. put your blade at a 45 and just simply cut the scales off in one big slice by working the knife back and forth.
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I say you only need a 3wt and 5wt. I fish mostly rivers and creeks and I only really use a 9f 5wt and 7f 1/2 3wt. The 5wt is for dries and nympthing the Bow and other larger rivers and 3wt for dry-fly fishing the smaller rivers and creeks.
I have a 6wt for streamers on the Bow but I don't really use it that often because I don't really like fishing streamers. If you want to fish streamers or in high winds, maybe a 3wt and 6wt would be a better option.
I like the feel of a 5wt more than a 6wt.
i second that notion
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i have seen a couple out here in the last few years. they are in the long grass really hard to see if youdo not look close enought.lots of em in ontario as well
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you can use indicators on cutty streams but it is tought too manage the depths. [focus on teh deeper runs and pick up before your into the shallows..
for droppers i usually go fairly long 2-3 feet but u can go as short as 6 inches if the fish are taking emergers and as deep as 5 ro 6 feet if u halfto fish it nymph style...
ok thanks max i am going to give that a shot a lttle more. i think it will help me out, cuz like you said i found the indicators hard to manage and quite often in the smaller waters they result in spooked fish.
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what kind of lengths on the dropper. i never really use this ri too often evn though i should
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Hopper dropper from mid-july on when i'm fishing nymphs in shallower stuff or pocket water (Tibore can attest to me kicking his ass all day when i was doing this, and he had a normal nymph rig on).
If it's a plunge, i cast to the shallow stuff, if it ticks you just gently pull them off the bottom (kind like a mend, but just enough to move the flies off the bottom and keep drifting) until they're into the pool.
or use heavier nymphs and splitshot and it will get down in time
you know it all. you seem to be able to answer all of my questions. right on.
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just got thinking bout my last excursion to a mountain stream and it hit me. i have been meaning to ask this question for some time now. i am not really the best at feeling the ticking of my flies on the botom and usualy rely on indicators to catch majority of my fish. i do however try to go indicatorless every now and then to build up that skill. when on the mountain streams where the pools are realatively short. meaning they are shallow and then transist to deep within a few feet in distance i find that either my indicator set up gets caught up while in the shallow part. if i cast to the deep part it is usually too late for the fly to get down deep enough and is already at the end of the pool. how do you guys fish with nymphs in that situation? do you indicate or not?
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streamers/nymphs going upstream and dries coming back down to the truck (unless i'm in a hurry in which i'll dry it upstream scouting as i go and then hole picking back down, hitting the ones i've seen something big in)...
you know that is a great system. that really must work doesnt it.
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I tend to agree with bigbadbrent but caution you not to change too quick, just for the sake of changing. You can spend your entire day changing flies and tippets ... spending more time changing them than fishing them. Just because you aren't catching fish doesn't mean the fish aren't feeding or that you're using the wrong flies. More often than not, the presentation is the killer. Not necessarily the killer in catching fish but rather the killer in not catching them. I tend to be a bit slow on the draw when it comes to changing flies and/or tippets. I tend to change presentation markedly more often, while searching, than changing flies and/or tippets. I also take a lot longer to fish a hole than my companions do. Whether or not that translates into greater angling success is a matter of perspective.
you make a good point. thanks or the intput. i always like to see how other people tackle each scenario compared to how i do because i am self taught so any little advice goes a long way for me.
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agreed with smitty. sweet fish dude. who would have thought posting what is most likely the best fish of your year would have stired so much. im jealous.