Hawgstoppah

My jaw just hit the floor. Stunning photography!!

fantastic

My favorite rod I have ever owned was a St Croix Legend Ultra 3wt 7'6". Paired it with an Islander IR-2 reel and it was the perfect set up. If the loser who snagged it off the banks of the Bow would have been honest I'd still have it

well he did say he caught it in the dark

Love it !!!

The fish on Glenmore trail have an emotional response. They make ME damn proud.

Holy shiznit

Sad news indeed.

Just never let it dry *grin* The longest my fly lines ever lasted (in "hours" or "days") was when they were constantly in use. I'd get 100+ days out of a fly line back then. now I replace line about once a season but that season might only involve 20 to 30 days on the water. I kind of figure maybe they are like an old car. As long as it's running it's fine but if you let it sit for months at a time problems develop quickly!

great pics

Love it!

roll cast downwind Al. Man up!

My opinion is that if you are using a light rod and 5x tippet, or a heavy rod and 5x tippet, either will land a fish in the same amount of time. In fact you may land your 5x fish more quickly with the lighter rod simply because you CAN put more pressure on the fish without fearing the tippet breaking. The heavier rod most likely snaps off more fish during the hookset and fight than the lighter one, resulting in more flies left in a fish's face. I think the "light rod vs heavy rod" should actually come down to and be in reference to "heavier line vs lighter line". It really has nothing to do with the rod itself, and everything to do with the skill level of the angler, and the stregth of tippet / line being used. Cheers,

For those of us who can't make it but would like to tune in on the radio, can you get Rob Kerr to announce the fight? No matter what ACTUALLY happens, I want to at least hear that Copperjohnny trashed his arse! LOL

Tomorrow would be a wonderfully entertaining day to watch these masters fish BWO patterns! Wish I was there!

My first entire season I never landed much on the Bow. Through observing others and doing a ton of reading, I slowly picked up on the river and where it's trout lie. My suggestion would be a couple books for starters. Jim McLennan's "Blue Ribbon Bow" and Charles E. Brooks "Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout". Those two books will give you a vast arsenal of techniques to try on the Bow, and for other Alberta streams when the fish are not showing on top, get down and dirty and nymph them out. Hiring a guide for a day will definitely shorten that learning curve. Try Maxwell from this forum, if he still does Bow River walk and wades. Sometimes he runs a seasonal special, a great way to learn the river inside and out. I used to guide as well, doing walk and wades on the Bow, and most folks who did hire me came out of it with a vastly improved success rate on the Bow. I hope you can get out with someone like Max and see the same for yourself, but if funds are tight do read those books and apply those techniques as well. Good luck!! (PS: I am not at all advertising myself on here as a guide, quite the opposite actually. I am done & retired and supporting a forum member who does a darn good job)

The classic "hopper, with a hopper dropper, and a dropper hopper". The hopper with a hopper dropper with a dropper hopper. That's 3 hoppers. Slays the cutty-brown-bows

what about the PMD? The ... purple... mountain... damsel... majesty fly.. LOL

CopperJohnny this is something else. I know you and have fished with you a couple times and even a long time ago introduced you to a different side of how to fish this river It is too bad some scumbag had to make it come to this. Drop me a PM bud. I think we ALL owe it to CJ here to make a call to the flyshop he was going to work for and stand up for him. Sounds to me as though he didn't have much of a choice.

Oh heck my bad. I was reading a thread on Police Lake and thought this was the same forum area and that this happened there!!! Sorry boys, carry on. No big surprise to me that it happened on the Bow. Sadly, it seems a lot of folk fishing that place have lost the true meaning of what it means to be a fly fisherman. I do not even visit anymore.

As much as I think Police needs all the friends it can get right now, how bout the goon club from Calgary stay home from now on, we don't need your act in peaceful southern AB thank you very much.

amen. I have a trip with an old buddy the end of next week for a week of fishing, and for a week it'll be just chilling and relaxing with no worries about the actual fish. Great pics congrats on the big Chinook, lots of fun!!

Swift and severe punishment every time the child acts out. I don't mean spanks and hitting and the whatnot. But I do mean extra chores like cleaning the bathroom toilet, scrubbing the kitchen floor, and other chores the kid will NOT want to do, and if he does not do those assigned chores take away all of his privileges like TV and iPods and internet and toys and whatever he has up and until his room has nothing in it but a dresser and ONE change of clothes. My kids know by now that if they have been assigned ONE extra chore (the first one is usually NOT too bad) they had BETTER shape up. And they do. Any failure to enforce punishment is a parenting failure and will result in the kid pushing his "luck" repeatedly because he can. Those are my thoughts and they do seem to work, we have 4 of the most well behaved kids "most" of the time (there are always going to be those bad days). Cheers,

Congrats on your opening. What is the address, next time I am in town I will try and stop in! Cheers,