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Merry Christmas to all. Best wishes for the new year.

Eyes on both the Oldman at Maycroft and Crow at Frank this afternoon. Pretty low for the season. Brace yourself.

What you see is what you get. Haven't been home in a couple of weeks but it seemed the runoff wasn't much.

Merry Christmas to all.

Thanks muchly for the info. Must be nice if it's worth that much effort. What kind of results did you have? What worked best? Not nice to tease us with just "It was worth it". We want stories and details!

In Montana they've advocated a four trout distance. Obviously they haven't seen the size of the ones I catch.

Province has shut down staging areas in the Pass. As in you're not even allowed to unload your sled and take off for a ride by yourself which would be less close contact than going to the store. Can't even park within a kilometer of them. How do you think they'll view fishing access points? Or even people "randomly" parked alongside the road?

Quit my job on Wed. On Thur found out the work I was expecting disappeared. I'll worry about isolating once/if I get sick.

Allegedly they MIGHT be found in the Belly. Have never heard of any being caught to confirm. A couple of stocked ponds in K Country. All of my Grayling experiences have been north of the 16.

Well, nice while it lasted.

I set a new personal record today. Most consecutive days I woke up. Your turn.

Where will they be stocked?

Preaching to the choir. But if you're out with a new person; ask them if they want to run until they're out of breath and then stick their head under water for over a minute while somebody is maybe pelting them with rocks (beaching a fish). People I've taken under my wing, who have been mostly using hardware for their life, are horrifying to watch. Sometimes involves a lot of coaching (yelling) on my part when it starts. My granddaughter got a good start, mind you it helped that initially she was reluctant to handle her own fish.

Restrict outfitter/guides who have positioned themselves to make some money taking other people out fishing? But if it was the same number of friends fishing the same water, that would be acceptable? Not sure I see any difference except that the guides are being painted as a boogieman. I use a boat to float the same stretches and have a lower impact than having somebody else do the rowing? That could work I suppose since I can't run the boat and fish at the same time. So maybe the answer is no more than one person per boat. Using a guide allows you more to time to actively fish the river, reducing the time and subsequent pressure in any one area as well as contributing to a more enjoyable day since he knows the poor spots and problem areas to avoid. As well, a new(ish) fisherman can be supervised/advised on fish handling by the guide. I've taken new guys out and their practices can be horrifying. Besides the fact the guide will try to keep you legal. I look forward to my guided floats because it's just a much more enjoyable day, aside from the fishing. When I drive along the upper Missouri and see all the nice water that I can't access without a boat it's frustrating. But I could fish the easily and publicly accessible areas to my heart's (dis)content, same as any stream here at home. Maybe the answer is to make classified waters, restricting the number of rod days and perhaps even breaking it down into stretches that you are allocated for your day if the intent is to reduce the pressure for any waters that have gone downhill. Hands up: who wants to go down that road? And unenforceable without more CO's on the "ground". It's only fair that their pay, benefits and resource requirements are paid for by the people that they're watching, not general revenues. If you walk and wade, maybe a better situation than now. If you have a boat: do you look forward to only being able to use it a few days a year? If you're lucky at drawing lottery style permits. Go that way and you'll undoubtedly have fewer guides on any given day, with prices that put such a trip into the realm of "for the well to do only".

Your point? I seem to have missed it.