Hawgstoppah

I'd spend the day up from police by parking at the deerfoot extender bridge on the south bank and working up from there through all the islands. Lots of good breaks, troughs, and riffles in there and with the water low the wading should be easier... you may even be able to get to each island and fish all the banks in the entire section.

I'm thankful for every day I have left, and for the awesome family I've been blessed with. And for the rivers which I have been blessed to fish in my lifetime. Here's to many more years!

I'm no doctor but every doc I've heard on the subject says the more you use something the stronger it gets in the human body. Using your knee to stabilize in the water would probably strengthen it, not the opposite. Walking and then after the walk giving your knee some "hydrotherapy" should be good for it one would think.

what sort of budget are you looking to spend? one man's "fortune" might be anothers entry level rod. I'd go with a St. Croix Legend Ultra, really good rods esp in the heavier sticks as they are pretty lightweight and won't wear ya out as fast.

and to add to that , the people who "don't get out fishing enough" are exactly the type who think this sh*t up. This site continues to amaze me the direction it keeps taking. If this is what the new fly fisherman on the average river is about, I'm glad I don't run into too many where I fish.

I'm just saying I could care less. The world doesn't need more ways for people to hate on eachother though. Great work.

Crawling. I fished Badger a couple of times too, but never for Walleye, just for the elusive big pike everyone says are in there. (My pike fishing luck is not what it used to be)

I'm ok with the "Like" button, but in all honesty does this site need yet another way for members to berate eachother? Heck I'll need to go into a college computer lab and load FFC on every one of them to save my own arse! LOL

Does the winner of the trip get to float it in Movember wearing a big stache'? LOL

Maybe we'll start seeing goldtallibowbrownbrookcutties, now that would be awesome! Too bad the Bullbrookiebows will eat them first before we would ever get a chance to catch 'em.

That was pretty scary, but pretty true I suppose. I'm still afraid of online banking just for this reason alone.

I used to go out there all the time and just fish the inlet area... from shore, with fly and spin gear. This reminds me how fun that was most days. There's some BIG walleye, BIG pike, and once I even lost one of those fabled trout I think...

just... wow. The Bow never ceases to amaze...

whats with all the adds for warcraft and other random things between peoples responses in threads? Is the support recieved through the site sponsors not enough? It sure detracts from the experience of reading the board for me, having to wade through what is relevant fly fishing adds (which I do in fact view from time to time) and which is adds I could give two craps about (which is warcraft and mechwarrior etc etc, computer games)

Stunning pictures that scream with every fragment of their being, the reason we fish.

Love it!!!! I even recognize a run in one of the pictures (on the Bulkley) because I was baptized to steelheading with my first "tug" there and my first 5 larger steelhead was landed there as well.

Looks sharp guys!

Best..... vid...... ever....

any number of small streams with cutts. the higher up in most systems results in more fish (albiet smaller fish) but usually every decent looking bathtub sized hole has 5 eager small cutts, the bigger holes are "par 10's" where you usually get ten hits. It's where I take my kids... though I wont disclose the exact stream I like there are many, many like it that have eager cutts. Close to Calgary, for example, the far upper highwood system and it's various tribs are good... (take bear spray). Enjoy.

let me get this right before I laff myself to death. If I fish without an indicator I somehow am going to protect the resource more? God forbid all those trout impaling themselves on my indicator all day long. Hahahaha Oh my I need to go have a nap now... hahaha oh man.... thanks for the laffs.

True 8-10 pounders in the Bow? I'd be skeptical too. The biggest Bow I ever landed was 29" and roughly 5-6lbs in my best guess. People who think the common Bow river 20" is a 5lb fish are sorely mistaken. try approx 2.5 to 3lbs. Now I am not saying there isn't a ten pounder somewhere in the river... and I'd LOVE to be the guy who gets to post a pic of it too

now EVERYONE's going to go to Hawaii. Sheesh.

Fantastic!!!

I've been on many cutt streams where this happens and the one thing and only thing I can relate to the weather you describe and the action you describe (the river coming alive and exploding with rising cutts everywhere) is a drake hatch. You usually don't see too many simply because the fish get to them first, in my opinion. Tie on a large green or grey drake, for me a #12 traditional adams works best even, and have fun. Long leaders / lighter tippet might also help. I usually use 9ft 5x this time of year. Once I huddled under a tree stand in a thunderstorm on the Livingstone to wait out a storm, the day had been slow and I was starting to wonder if the place had been poached to death. The rains came down, it hailed a bit even, and fish suddenly started to rise from everywhere in the pool, when the hard rain turned to a drizzle there was so much action I could hardly stand it, tied on a drake and laid into them heavy! I've now seen it happen at least a couple dozen times and always know what to expect, and what to use from that experience.

Yup, like hitting that one good shot in a round of golf where you go "wow", same with fishing! that fish will live in your dreams forever and you will hunt him down! good luck!!