bcubed

Very good points all around. So why arent the roads being reclaimed immediately following cutting? Or better prevention measures put in place so more yahoos don't go cutting trails into the roads?

You mean, the fire that we are actively preventing... Let em happen. Hard pill to swallow when everyone (including me) want's a nice house in the mountains surrounded by forest.. It's funny to consider logging the solution, when the problem is caused by human intervention in the first place. Fires create biodiversity that is simply not matched by human design. We're going to have one hell of a fire at some point that we cannot suppress, and likely could have been dealt with by letting the occasion fire burn, regardless of the logging companies bottom line. Selectively log, ditch the block cutting, lots of other options, however again, they hit the profit statement so aren't considered valid. Really, stop logging in the headwaters and allow for natural processes to take over. If the photos that Redbeard aren't enough to piss you off, then nothing will. That's where the water that is in you right now begins, and yet this is considered 'good' management? But then again, we'd hate to disparage any sort of development, being Alberta and all..

Guess I'm viewing different pictures there Clive, but then again I still consider burnt trees as being part of the environment... clear cutting is hardly the same thing as a fire, and laughable to be called well managed.

yikes..

Just as easy to find ones that show it differently..

Ya no confirmation bias on that one...

http://www.oldmantu.ca/?p=81 Seems in response...

To confirm, are they not simply following the mandate of TU, which is to protect fish and fish habitat?

frick I want those oar locks for my scadden...

Guess I'm a cynic, but is anyone not just bored of the same repeat show? It's literally been the exact same thing for the past ~10 years. I guess it's good that we get to get out of the cold to talk shop, but man there hasn't been a single thing to really motivate me to go to the show other then seeing some folks from town I haven't had a chance to catch up with.

lol..the ones that are at or above the 30" mark.. the last 5 photos

I keep it really simple. One guide pack of red-gammies. Done

Marc, just throw a chubby at them..if they don't eat it dead drift, skate it. If they don't eat it, then throw a large streamer...if they don't eat that, they're gonna have left anyway! Pretty well the way I fished all summer on the Bow. Kept me very light! Plus keeps all those pesky little 16" off the line

Rob, your obsession with overweight ladies worries me...

Pretty much all of those are all going to eat baitfish, of different sizes and colors. Easy to get a ton of baitfish style bugs, into a small ziplock bag and let air out. Takes near zero space. Go talk to Adam at CPs for Roosters, he's been doing it for as long/longer as the 'running down the man' video. Pretty well everything they'll eat, is what the tarpon/snook/jacks will eat. Don't bring freshwater lines. They'll wilt in the heat and not cast well at all. Need some stiffness to deal with the heat if you want to be able to shoot any distance.

Well, at least when they do a temporary closure, they'll think twice about how they do it. Last years 'open for fishing' map was pretty well an outline of pure strain westslopes.

negative, just threatened under COSEWIC, not SARA listed I'm all for not fishing in the headwaters where there are pure strain.. hopefully this can push some meaningful enforcement onto the ATV users as well.. Considering they're looking at ones that are >99% pure, I doubt 0.01% of the anglers in AB have even caught one.

Couple happy retrievers wouldn't hurt either!

Well, technically: "The American white pelican is protected by the provincial Wildlife Act and it is illegal to kill or harass individuals or disturb their nests at any time of the year." I'd suggest trying passive measures prior to going on the offensive. Maybe delay the stocking till after the typical migration period.

lololol.... and yet, how many do?

Pretty well all my big bugs (steelhead tubes) go in small plastic bags that I can seal tight. Usually can get 6 or so in a bag. Sealing tight with removing the air keeps them in good shape, regardless if I cram them into my waders. Same idea as the leader wallet. Since they're tubes, don't have to worry about the hook wrecking the bag, or rusting out. Typically I carry a dozen of these bags, inside a small fly box to stop me from losing them. Has completely changed how I carry bugs. Way less hassle. Bag of flies, bag of hooks and 15lb maxima in my wader pockets. Extra stuff stay in my bag or backpack For pike, they all just get hucked into a large compartment box that fits in my sling.

will it? I doubt that anyone from the anti-keystone would care if they were saving one baby seal per barrel of oil that is being shipped. Really doubt it.

Not looking forward to the increase in heating costs, let alone that no one seems to be mentioning that going to Natural Gas and 'renewable' is also going to increase electricity prices. Hard to support it when I know hundreds of people who have been recently laid off. Good ideas, but poor timing. How long till we start pushing more hydropower as a solution...?

33000...that's a lot of additional aeration time and trophy trout.