Tako
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Here's my nearly complete go-to nymph box.
Closeup of the black stretchflex wing case. How does it look?
And my 'needs lots of work' lake box. I don't like fishing lakes much, and can usually get by with leeches and chonnies, so this box typically gets shafted.
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Jmasson have you ever fished for pike or eyes in the lower smoky? Pretty nice fish down in the lower end. near Fox Crk. I'll dig up a walleye pic
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Funniest thread evaaaaaar
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All the big names are dropping out!
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I won't fish for bulls during those months. Pisses me off to see people holding up bright orange bulltrout. If that's the only time you can be successful targeting bulls, you suck.
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Word. But if you've got a quad, I know some redic holes. I mean redic like you've never seen before.
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*Try* to stay away from the bulls if you go in August, as they are very close to spawning.
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Hijack....
Tako, second week of June (just after opening and run-off), Little Smoky River, Grizzly bridge. Tons of grayling (some hawgs too) and the odd bull. We'll catch a ton and have a blast. An old family friend lives in Fox Creek so wouldn't have to camp if we didn't want to.
James
I dunno, August was pretty good. And I know a lot better places than the bridges
As long as I get the job I want, I'm there 
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I gotta tell ya ... mikefromSundre makes more sense to me in this thread than anybody else. Those of you who choose to keep your favorite fishing spots a secret are maybe keeping them a secret from other anglers but certainly keeping them secret from the authorities who protect them. The only way to influence the political arena into preserving our fishing streams is to attract enough attention to force the legislators to act.
A case in point are the fishing opportunities in Montana. Montana understands the value of their fishery. The majority of streams in central Montana have a boat launch every 5 miles, foot access almost everywhere and a state promotional program second to none. And every one of their streams is protected from development ... protected to preserve the fishery they offer.
By contrast, Alberta has no concept of what fishery protection is or how to achieve it. Yes they've done some work on the Stauffer and Dog Pound but how about the thousands of miles of other streams in central and southern Alberta? Go ahead an continue to keep your favorite fishing hole a secret and, over the years, watch it fall victum to the development threatening every water course in Alberta today.
The Raven River, North and South, is a perfect example of this. Sure they used the "Buck for Wildlife Program" to protect the banks of a very small segment of the Raven (Stauffer) but following a good rain storm, none of the Raven is fishable including that section known affectionately as the Stauffer. Same goes for the Dog Pound, Fallen Timber, Little Red, Sheep, Highwood, Gorge ... I could go on and on. If we are going to curtail this tendency, we've got to start making some noise instead of quietly trying to keep a "secret".
Two words. Angler density.
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You got me Din. The easy answer is whitefish. But I say it's a grayling
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Tako, let's go catch some minnows sometime. I knew it wasn't a rainbow but I thought it was a coho smolt too.
No coho in that river
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I would kill to have that many supplies
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Stillwater nymphs can be anything from brown to yellow to black to red. Olive, tan and brown are your most common. I like this as a general searcher pattern when fish won't take my usual assortment of leeches, scuds, chironomids and dragons. It's simply a marabou feather tied in as a tail and wrapped forward on a size 10 hook. Looks like any type of bug. Mayfly, damsel, leech, whatever. It works
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I happened to be catching these on the same fly
Photo-whore mode off
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Okay ... this is my first post so who knows what's going to come out.
That may be a finned critter but it's nothing I'd be posting on here. Time for you to go after something bigger than your middle finger. I've used flies bigger than that minnow.
Educational purposes. That, and I don't trophy fish Welcome aboard
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I HATE all of that now...which explains why, after nine years here, we still do not have baseboards in the basement. True 45° miter joints are a myth. They do not exist in the universe. That's why they sell paintable silicone caulking.
lol.....lmao too funny
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How do you do that?? I still haven't figured it out
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Beauty!
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You got mail
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There is LESS (read: LESS) friction on the guides. The ridging of the line puts less surface area on the guides. IE: the purpose of the line. The reason it will probably mangle your hands is because your hands will form to the line, and are a lot softer than your guides.
You guys are making it difficult not to buy one of these
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Get use to people crowding rivers. Hell by the time I retire there will be about a million more people living in Alberta. Don't like someone crowding "your" spot? Move to a different province. HA! Don't bother with BC. The gov't is making a huge push to increase angler numbers
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Good one Bobbers
A few got it and a few didn't. I think ausnuck cheated
It is a yearling chinook. The spacing between the parr marks, lack of spotting on the adipose fin and somewhat hidden anal fin were the giveaways. This was a tough one even for me, as I second guessed my original guess of chinook (thinking they should have migrated out of the system already) and thought rainbow briefly. A quick email to a prof cleared that up
Good guess on coho smolt weeds 
But there's no white edge on the anal fin. Greedy little beggars. I caught 5 of them on that same pattern!
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Release them outside the city, so they compete with native critters. Wonderful. Those folks should have their knees busted.
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For you special price $500. What!? I need to eat!