Tako

James. Anytime you want to fish some beauty holes in northern BC you just send a message

You're close. Edit. Helps to look before posting Status of WCTR in AB

Toolman, yeah that was me. Took me a while to get back round to an AB forum. Liked working over there. Hope to be back. AB fits my fishing style perfectly. Love it. Clive, both rainbows and cutts (westslope and sea run) are native to BC, including all the strains currently stocked, to mention nothing of bull trout, dolly varden, 4 species of pacific salmon, steelhead, lake trout and kokanee, as notable salmonid species, along with three or more species of whitefish and numerous cyprinid species. I don't think we were lacking in diversity to begin with. I'm not sure why I have to explain this, as I believe you to be a very educated man. Stocking of brook trout was done carefully, and mostly in previously barren lakes, to avoid competition with native fish. Prior to 1997 this was a hit or miss process as fish were stocked diploid. Brookies stocked after 1997 have been sterile triploids, something I believe that AB is dabbling in, but hasn't really gotten into yet. Brown trout on Van Island (I believe) were illegally introduced by one of those 'sports fishermen' that seem to think they can single handedly transform a fishery into something great. Bass, perch, pike, pumpkinseed, black crappie, carp and even goldfish have been sampled all over the lower mainland and southern interior, with even a couple smallmouth bass being caught (reportedly from a family pond) in the upper Quesnel River watershed!! The problem with these species is their incredibly high fecundity. They out-grow, out-eat and out-breed native trout, char and salmon. NOT good. Perch are especially bad for trout populations. Several excellent trout fishing lakes have been reduced to sub par fisheries due to the introduction of perch. Bass in Duck Lake are only a hop skip and jump from the lifeblood of the Gerrard strain of rainbows, Kootenay Lake. My point is this: Illegally planted invasive species have caused some mega problems in this province. If you think I'm being vocal on the issue, you might not want to bring the topic up on some of the BC fishing boards. It's as controversial a topic over here as jetboats or bully poaching is over there. I've personally caught perch, LM bass, pumpkinseed and black crappie while bumming around the lower half of the province, and I can tell you with no remorse that every single one of them has become eagle food. Hope to cross paths this summer and share thoughts over a drink, Tako

Common Clive you know as well as I do there's a huge difference between scientific stocking and illegal species transport. I don't know if you're aware, but we got a big 'bucket brigade' problem over here. We're back to using rotenone to get rid of perch some morons keep bucketing from south of the border. IMO BC could lose the brown trout on the coast, and every single non native piscivore that's been planted. Pike, bass, perch kill em all. I'm not a big fanof the idea of 'preserving' non native fish populations. Brookies are a success story over here, as I've only herd unsubstantiated rumours that they're in a few riverine systems. Brookies over there, well you got a different situation. Arg. It's a nice bass, Duck is a great Bass fishery. I just don't think BC is any place for a great bass fishery.

My favourite move was reverse for 180, then slam the stick into drive, ebrake and gas for 180. Then my buddy took out an axle on his moms minivan doing it. We sorta quit after that

Sounds like a FURD. Push it off a cliff and film the explosion. Makes for great stream structure

Are you guys blind? T-A-K-O Tako is the student from BC, who doesn't like invasive BASS screwing up his awesome NATIVE biodiversity. Taco is the cowboy from AB

Relax. JMasson, would love to hear more. Need more trout bums posting stories, cause, as you can see, everyone's quite snowbound. Thank God I'm not prejudiced against icefishing Hoping not to step on any toes

I'll take a dozen Damn fine stimmys

Dope. That goes on the favourites list.

Hi I'm Mike................ ................From Canmore RIP

I know what czech nymphing is

And the Elk, Wigwam, St Mary's and Dragon Lake get all the tourists from Alberta. So suck it up I like this forum

I fish nymphs.

Great cause, not a big fan of epoxy jigs. I donated my money.

Even worse. Leafs

And I was catching them in 2002. They're still invasive and destructive to native fish populations. Oh wait, Alberta didn't get the memo. Invasives are bad.

Two worst teams in the league. Why would you bother

Invasive and disgusting. Kill them all.

Holding steady at -32 this AM. My poor truck looked at me like I was some kind of evil bastard this morning

-40 tonite with the winchill. Good times

I hope you bonked its ugly head in

I voted yes and have casted it. I probably wouldn't notice any difference in fish-to-hand but it was cool and fun to cast. That being said, I'm a brokeazz university student, so you won't catch me shelling out $100 for a flyline

Edmonton is THE WORST city in the world to attempt to drive in. END of discussion. I don't understand how anyone in their right ming could live there.

Hmmm......looks like a russian icefishing jig.