Hawgstoppah

Wow.... I'll never get that 20 minutes of my life back.......... :$*%&: Great thread.... not Fly fishing is what you want it to be so long as your within the regs. I personally like the options alberta gives you in the fact that you can (if your SMART) tie 3 nymphs on and much more quickly find out exactly what the fish are keying on. Once that's accomplished, I usually go back to 2, one for weight and one for food. I guess our boy here Orvis has : - never "trolled" from his pontoon boat in a lake (that wouldn't be fly fishing) - never nymphed with any weight or sp[litshots at all, ever - never fished a streamer - never fished spey or two handers - never cast blindly - EVER - to the water without first sighting a RISING fish. Quite simply boring if you ask me.

Gorgeous brookies man. Wow...

My brother was working in Santa Fe, Texas (between Houston and Galveston). Haven't heard yet if the shop they were trying to set up got damaged or destroyed. Minimal communications from my bro that's for sure.... all we got was a short e-mail "im going back to houston stop worrying"... lol

How bout on the day of the thing, a random draw from a hat. you either get an "A" or a "B". that's your team for the day. A's can go fish with B's, and can count eachothers fish. Total most fish caught team gets to sit around while the losing team has to cook the supper. Done deal... everybody wins and it would still be a lot of fun. Thje winning team gets to boast and puff out their chests while the losers cook. All in good fun...

Trophy winner for the biggest taped fish over two days, and maybe the team with the most fish ... trophy to be handed down every year. The winner there gets a prize, must be verified and picture with tape, etc. The rest of prizes could be random draws. I like the idea. sometimes competition brings out the best in people. I love friendly competition.. but...sometimes, it brings out the worst... too... I've seen guys lose their heads over FRIENDLY competitions... like golf, fishing, etc.

That pool is a "gooder"

So replying to a thread where fish are clearly being harmed is unwarranted? where's your head? PS. I don't guide... dunno where you going with that one. Quit that a long time ago.

Fish laying on the gawddamn rocks is a lot more pressing than someone holding a nice bull trout OVER the water for the pics.... If your gonna bitch at this bull trout, just simply stop fishing. If it's +30C and the water temps 65-70 on the Bow.... I'll bet I can still find you on the Bow somewhere.... your doing JUST as much harm if not more. I'll also never want to see you on a steelhead stream... Or fishing for pike in the spring... Or fishing for ANY BROWN TROUT ANYWHERE right now as there getting ready to spawn soon... Oh yeah that means the ENTIRE bow... I mean dude..... hit the real issues like people leaving there *hit all over the place and leaving fish on rocks for pictures... we can ALL agree that's doing harm....

Soooo.... how cold was the water

Nice fish.... too bad you had to lay a lot of them or rocks and grass and remove their protective slime coating, and possibly kill them :$*%&:

You guys are bitching in here about this post yet you left another with fish laying on rocks and DEFINATELY being mistreated - alone??? what's the agenda folks?? Nice bull guys.

Hope it veers south and / or loses some strength. Right now it's still Cat2 I think.

Geez my best fish of the year is the huge rainbow I got down close to home (30.5") in the srping at a private pond (not really a huge secret... palmer ranch) Close second is all the big bulls from "That river in the kooteneys" Some pics of them in the BC reports

You answered your own question Split shot, streamer, and cast it into anywhere YOU would hide if you were going to ambush other fish. think like a fish...

Nice fish ... the pose with the sunset is a great shot :-)

what a great post cam..... I'd often wondered the same thing. I can cast (with double hual) about 60-70ft with my 10ft 6wt bow river rod, but when I was out there I found the water covered was so, soooooooo, much better with a two hander

Phat dope tyte shizzle ........... Or frikkin unreal... either way, your pics are awesome

these pics are amazing... and have me twitching to set the hook!

You musta been up in them thar' hills

Hey Clive, would you be able to PM me Jeffs contact info? I'll be out there doing 5 days of walk and wades that I donated to streamwatch starting Aug 25th, and would love to meet him for coffee or breakfast or whatever he wants one morning... I'm buying.

Not at all. Try going down to texas or Arkansas or anywhere south. Any little patch of public land is beat bare with atv tracks. The problem is the alberta government doesn't have the balls to step up and protect the environment. And BC's does (as much as we complain about fees and everything else, at least there DOING something!!!)

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So I go away for a week and the first post I open up..... is this! lol

Wow.... extremely "dope" pics man

what???? LOL