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I deal with Public Lands with my work, and it's a fairly complicated matter. The major issue is that 'technically' only a Legal surveyor can specify where that mark is. Typically, it's pretty damn close to the 1:2 year flood line, or where the vegetation trim line is. From the surveyors act: For the actual case of who owns the land, see the Water Boundaries information from AEP, and the information on accessing it. https://www.alberta.ca/water-boundaries.aspx To put it simply, unless they specifically have it on their title, a watercourse is crown claimed, and you have every right to be there. Worth fighting over, i'm doubtful, especially in that area, but worth asking for a name and phone number so you can talk to a land officer on it. I've had good and bad interactions with landowners on the Fallentimber, including where they have strung fences across the river (definitely illegal under both the Public Lands Act and Canada Navigable Waters Act). I would suggest touching base with the Public Land Officer for the region and bringing up the interaction and location.

Does it come with an illegal guide charge, or 3? (inside joke, not calling you an illegal guide)

For teams of 2, sure. but guy on the back seat is definitely within a couple feet. Good point on shuttle drivers

Flows are just from a calculation using water level, from what i understand, so any missing flows are likely a software issue if they're still reading water levels. I noticed that the Elbow one randomly turned on last week, so wouldnt surprise me if they need someone manually to hit a 'export flows'

So then why keep the fire ban but back off of OHVs? It’s 100% politics to allow them..

You can’t get past highway 66 on highway 40 unless you own property. Get a fine if you park within 1 km of a PRA, can’t park in a staging area. Not sure why they didn’t just straight up close

Prob the same day were out in K country. figured that Tryst had 25 cars at it, but then figured most were meeting out there seperatly. We did that for a day in Commonwealth. Unfortunately we bared the brunt of the idiots at Elbow Falls/Prairie (even though i dont understand how you hike within 6 feet of another person) Considering the OHV crowd got them to back off from OHV bans, sure hope they dont touch fishing..

well, as someone who gets to deal with water act and public lands act daily, this is just the reporting requirements, not the actual approvals. Better yet, most of the reporting requirements were due on March 31. Seems like an attempt to bump market with a news article in my mind

Isnt that a tung-stud?

ha ya, they weren't overly politically correct when naming flies

BWO killer, pheasant tail, red headed stepchild

They’re closed to vehicle access. You can still go walk into fish creek park and fish. Otherwise, no closures of public land. Go fishing, be thankful

such a joke. We can have the loud OHV crowd kill a park through consultation, yet when the UCP decide to remove parks from the system they dont need to do boo? I would be more worried about this part: " Sites removed from the parks system would have their legal park designations removed, and could be open for alternate management approaches. "

Let's just say, dont accidentally hook one on an 8 weight when bluefin trevally fishing... things go wrong fast!

I watched a well known guide/"celebrity angler" a few years ago spend 6 minutes photographing a fish. We pulled over and counted...

Impressive turnout

" anglers are encouraged to avoid targeting fish species-at-risk such as bull trout " Time to just stop allowing chasing bull trout. Guide outfits actively pumping the bull trout tire is getting old, considering we know they're at risk. Hell, even tourism Alberta is promoting it. I get it, i used to be into getting them as they can be huge.. but man, there sure feels like a lot less these days. Dont think i've cast to a bull trout on purpose in 10 years.

Well hopefully anyone on here complaining goes to the open house tonight to provide this kind of feedback. I’ll be there doing such

There was no limit to 'public' in BC, provided that public is a resident. I'm fine with that if we get the same here.. You also don't see every fish in the Elk with scarred mouths, unlike our local cutthroat streams... Guides pushed hard in east kootenays for sure with inflated days but Skeena was heavily pushed by annoyed locals who could not fish their own rivers on weekends. That being said, locals in east kootenays are plenty happy with what they see as moderately increased guide days, and substantially decreased overall pressure from outside, from my conversations with them. The michel is an absolute ghost town on weekdays since the implementation Guides there also require way more reporting then what we have here (none). Every guide day is accounted for, every fish caught.. at least on the Skeena..

Time to stop the 'this is how we've done it for 30 years'. Calgary's population has increased 2.2x since 1980 and 2x since 1990, so it's not just the introduction of corporate trips. This isn't the river of 30 years ago, yet we're still regulating guide services like the last 100, as in, we're not. Time to aim for a quality fishing experience with resident-priority, not just quality fish. Based on the definition of 'blue ribbon' including: - "Angling pressure: The water must be able to withstand angling pressure. " - " Natural reproduction capacity: The body of water should possess a natural capacity to produce and maintain a sustainable recreational fishery. " I think it's fair to say that we cant even attempt to call the Bow that anymore. That is what is stated above, and from typical experience, the truth. Guided anglers catch more fish then un-guided anglers. So yes, they have a bigger impact on a per-capita basis.

Here’s your chance to speak up... https://talkaep.alberta.ca/aep-fisheries-management

Your right, it also goes back to 40 years of PC rule. So what are you actually proposing to do, rather then ranting on the internet?

Did you vote UCP..? Considering how few of the boat inspection stations were running this year, the pretty much wholesale clearance of any and all temp staff (say, the temp CO staff) whose terms were up this fall, its only going to get worse..

Talk to the guys at Robinsons in Vic. They’ll point you the right way. Some nice swinging water in the lower end of the Cowichan Provincial park.

Before we start advocating for hatcheries, feel free to watch this... hatcheries are a sure way for one thing: to keep using hatcheries.