troutlover

Got out this weekend with Brian (Hawgstoppah). It was a cold and rainy morning 7:30am our first stop was the Lease parking lot just to check it out and there was no cars so we took advantage of a rare chance and got first dibs on some primo water. Started up stream first cast Brian had one on nice 14" next cast Brian had Another 16" and i hooked up for a double header. We gave shout out WOOT WOOT! it's gonna be one of those days on the crow and it was from hole to hole we managed to land many fish with their feed bags on hungry for SJW's and stones. Most fish were found in fast riffles in buckets at the heads of the runs where the water dumped in it was consistent and predictable. It was amazing how hard the fish were fighting and they were so fat it was ridiculous the must have had a great feed on the salmon fly hatch this year. At around 2pm things slowed down so we took a brake to have a rock skipping contest and a PMD hatch started the fish moved into some regular dryfly back eddies and we managed a few on the dry with stimulators. The lease started to get crowded so we left and went to find quieter water for the evening dryfly we went up river and down and finally found a spot that seemed promising but not action on the dry a cold front came in and no hatch but as we worked up back to the truck at around 9:30 we had a lucky run of a few more fish Brian was at 22 i was at 18. Brian being the good guy he is gave me first run so i could hit 20 i quickly caught 19 and he said keep going one more so the next cast i hooked into a big fish i got him close and we both thought bull then it turned on its side and i screamed BROWN!! We really flipped out if anyone had been there they would have thought we were insane. The stinger was Brian had lost a 20-22" brown earlier that day that he said not 30 min before he would have given all his fish of the day to catch that one brown.Shoot! That said brian out fished me completely that day we in total landed 43 fish and had just as many LDRs the majority being Brians its crazy to watch that guy fish learned a lot. So if your geting out this week try the crow i suggest a stone and a SJW also if the pass gets a little bit of warm weather there are going to be some EPIC caddis hatches pretty soon here like this week so keep an eye on the weather. Hope for sun.

HAHAHA my kid did the same thing to me only it's my wife thats rubbing it in my face.

Wow! Sign me up for next year.

I love all mine the only time ive had one break is when ive broken from neglect. They cast great and they are great for people new to casting. You need to be careful about charts and reviews on the internet or in magazines no magazine will EVER write a bad review about a rod that gives them advertising dollars. I don't trust magazine or internet reviews, i think the best review is from users on forums like this. I never buy bases on magazine or internet reviews.

I'm going to be wishing i was fishing. Unless it's slow at work then i will be on a small creek close to town by 3 pm. If that fails im going to try to figure out what lake Taco is on.

x3 on maude

Max that is brilliant i have that camera have used that mode for other things but never came up with that i cant wait to give that a try! thanks. I gave up taking pictures for the simple reason that it is a pain in the rear and usually it's the fish that pays for the art, probably in most cases not with it's life but stress weighs heavily on fish.

first one

I would but the scouts are cooking breakfast for their mommy's and putting on a talent show saturday, maybe next saturday.

I would love to come but it's May First.

175 on 39 mmmmmwwwwwhhahahahahah!!!

Opps sorry

sooo then you wouldn't teach yourself??

police outpost.

$100.00 on 39 please thanks Rick your doing a great job!

Dax you are SO wrong. But i know your just kidding. That statement is true for some however not the majority. and i say again i totally know you meant it in jest.

well done

nice work steve

yes there are sturgeon in the bow.

#5 red deer river drift $350.00

OH YA Rick!!! Not so different!!!!!.... PEE_CAN PIE!!.... Take that Texas.!

Nice! they closed chap a few weeks ago i cant wait for the ice to come off should be a fun spring with all the biggies they stocked.

i don't think you're supposed to wash passports.

sorry you had to move to edmonton.

i should be on the list