Hawgstoppah

Nice fish soggy , great start! That's a sweet looking healthy male brownie!! Just for future fish, please if your alone and need a pic put them in the water beside your rod or something .. the grass he's in can remove his slime coating and open him up to catching diseases. Slime on a fish is like their immune system. I also made the mistake of posting pics like this long ago and got reemed out too... just letting you know for furture.... read the "before you post pics of fish" thread on here too it'll help give you a good idea.... keep on fishing man your doing good the Bow is tough.. I remember my first BUNCH of trips on it were nothing.. probably the first 20 or so full days... then I started to figure things out slowly. Cheers!

They really need to make an example out of this and make an example out of the a-holes who drove right on by. Like a big list of names.. they got the license plates... lets see the names pasted all across canada in national spotlights. I'm like Ray... the feeling inside right now is beyond anger, the best word is loathing.

Boy that sure is a great read... and wonderfull pics. That's still on my bucket list too.. though I think the hike up to Barnaby or something down south here is a more realistic venture for me. If ya don't mind, how much was the heli ride full price?

Beauty brown! I'd also guess trico's... though it almost looks thick enough to be light foggy patches. wow. was anything sipping off the top in quiet water? Sometimes those big fish will key on trico's and you can almost bank on joining the 20/20 club when they do

Judging by the way your holding it and the way the eyes look, I'd say that girl is dead in the photo. How dare you on a C&R section... you must have played her for too long. (I couldn't resist)

Great fish and great photo of it!!

GREAT post... loved it! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun... those big pinks sure look nice! Real healthy looking fish!

Don't give up. Headway looks like it's being made. As much as we Albertan's like to think BC is screwing us over at times, there also doing a lot RIGHT. Just go fish some of their rivers to find out. There full of fish. Even the ones with a ton of people on them. Why? Becuase no one's bonking fish and taking them back to their random camps every miles of the river like on racehorse/oldman/livingstone, that's why. Hell the Castle near those campgrounds and quadding areas has nothing left either. Alberta is a damn shame. What we need is a fee like BC charges... and the proceeds going directly to enforcement and fishery rehabilitation / improvement. I'd gladly let them close the entire west slopes from grand prarie right on down to the montana border for 5 years so we can recoup what we've lost. And then go forward with a bright future and tight restrictions on land use and habitat destruction.

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very nice. I love your vids ... especially the "bow river drysies"

sweeeeeeeeet

awesome pics, beautifull place!!

Your right. I could have only assumed judging by it's size and shape that it had come from a lake such as Beauvais (which I have, indeed, had a few very signifigant brown trout on the end of my line only to lose them). I bet it's from the lower oldman I can't get over the mass of that fish. I don't think it's an ego pumper to have a fish on your wall that is the ALBERTA RECORD!! I think it's a hell of a tale to tell, with the evidence hanging right there to back it up. RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!

Not much left but a big azz bully!

lol. happy b-day

No. That has nothing to do with it. It's the fact that my wife has stolen my berries and I'm too chicken to get them back (becuase I don't have any left, she's beaten the fight right out of me by now)

Good gawd. I can only assume one place... great fish. I'll bet there's a pile of those small stocker rainbows in his belly.

That's a big arse bully bud!! But I don't see any pictures. There's no way I'll believe ya now!

Pack a travel rod, some dries and small nymphs, a few indicators, some tippet, and head up to Crypt Lake (you need to take a FULL day, and a boat ride to the trailhead). The scenery will leave you breathless, and the fishing is good for cutthroats. You do need a parks license for it though... which u can get at the visitors center on the right as you head into town (unless things have changed, and then you should be able to get it on the main street visitors center across from the ice cream shop)

great pics, and I agree, the last one is something else... great shot...

Right on!!!

Love the waterfall pic. And the lil' brookies. those are some special places!

Rick, Can I go with you next time you go fishing? Surely you've used all the bad luck a guy can muster in a couple months now, and any further trips will be complete succes stories!! Plus... I need some good laughs anyways

That laker is just FAT..... and ready for the BBQ!!!

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet