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Considering it used to close on October 1 just a couple years ago. Thanks though

Thompson was open until Nov 1...

I suspect the main issue is that they're only reporting the 'finds', and not the negatives. May well have tested Minnewanka and just havent published it yet?

I cut my streamer express back to 15. 15 is plenty. I like the streamer express as it has the intermediate running line, keeps your fly down longer. Only issue is the mono core tends to tangle a bunch

Ya, fishing a loop-on sink tip system out of a boat is going to suck, as typically you should be stripping almost to the leader. If you're using a loop-on, you're going to be super annoyed when that loop hangs up on the tip-top (and it will, even the best ones do..). A dedicated sink tip is worth it's weight... Particularly since the bow river fish seem to be adverse to eating anything but streamers the last two years (well, or those nymph things). A 250 gr would work on both your rods

And really, we could float the mallard side channel and find zero redds this year. Way too many variables every year to be able to pinpoint where fish will be going. The Highwood confluence is a little more obvious, as all fish headed up to the Highwood drainage have to pass through that point.

Still room on the two days..be good to see some FFC folks get involved

Flow velocity, depths, substrate, overhead cover, groundwater inflows, etc sign up and we'll show ya!

I think drones could be appropriate downstream of the city, but within the city would not be worth the headache or liability.. way too many people, go through a provincial park, near highways, people... If there are a couple folks with drones out there that are willing to donate time, im sure BRC could line up something downstream of Police. I'd question them being more accurate, but just a different way of doing them, and less people-intensive. Considering the number of redds that were associated with overhead cover, undercuts, and in varying water clarity.

I'll find out for you.

Vic has rod days on the Elk in his name, not the fly shops

ESRI aerial data isn't updated as often as google maps so it is what it is when having a GIS project completed for free...

hopefully it comes back as more then a glorified garage sale

It's been proven that they do contribute (i didnt look very hard and found 3 easy references).. Sure one boat may not count, but how bout the cumulative effects of many boats, every day, all summer, for years.. This one is particularly damning:

Nice to see funding for this, but what does Whirling Disease education entail?

Hard to say definitively without being there, but it looks like a potential redd. If it was cattle you'd see more disturbance from bank to bank

just report him and be done with it

Always say strathmore, when i mean sheppard. Strathmore is a hell of a lot further east

Upstream of cottonwood tee boxes, where the strathmore storm water comes in.

this is more then just a bylaw, there is an exemption to the Navigation Protection Act.. And would probably go just as well as the people that challenged the lifejacket bylaw Peter, CO's have jets.

So jetting in the city, and parked like a dick.. classic

I'm a bit surprised that these hatcheries arent subject to testing on an annual basis (unless they are?). If it's in Lott, i think it's pretty apparent that it probably came from Allen itself. Even the fact that they had that creek on their testing regime (and prioritized it above fish within the Elbow, or Lower Bow) is telling

Ya the fish farm came out and said it was them (surprisingly) that tested positive http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/whirling-disease-experts-on-edge-1.3802699

Pretty sure testing is ongoing throughout the drainage. A few whitefish from the TU Fish Rescue were taken for testing on Sunday. The word on the street is that the issue is that there are extremely limited laboratories that can do the testing, and the testing procedure takes ~a week.

Suspect we're at 'peak flyshop'for Calgary and area, and having bass pro right there would also be quite hard to compete with. Convincing brands that you could handle the competition would be extremely challenging