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Murray, try fishing a floating one a few feet behind a bead headed one. About as much fun as you can have with the jig action.

Who was the final winner?

ya they're blueberries. I was out with a bunch of vegetation ecologists who were identifying rare plants..planted some yesterday, just in time for the snow

Should also note that ajbopp is also one of Josh's employees...

Think it's pretty telling watching "guides" show up at a launch, pull out the client rods which are pre-rigged with bobbers from the day before, and not change a thing (why bother when you've got 2 worms on)... Same guys who you see when they throw in, and not once after as they're doing 8 hour worm runs. Sure they'll catch some fish, but certainly not showing what the Bow can do, or the really cool stuff.

Anyone had any luck with translocating wild blueberries? I've found one heck of a patch, and it's going to be wiped out by development... Think I've got an ideal spot in my backyard.

Gotta be near 20 now. As a guy who used to guide (and have seen all the guides who operate on the riv) there's not a guy out there who I'd rather pay to be on the sticks.

Kevin Peterson..

Photos from yesterday: Glenmore: https://fbcdn-photos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-0/10644488_10201625928009758_7695276474304814059_n.jpg?oh=5eece44a4b91ff68cea0955e2b0d0638&oe=545DCE9F&__gda__=1416464842_3307616f4741c5a94101ecab5b1ad612 Below Ivor Strong: https://fbcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-0/1604946_10201625926609723_2830288341044456960_n.jpg?oh=9b1792bd0940992e9aa7fd3265c5bf7f&oe=548103A7&__gda__=1415343512_1944293fba5fa1116d527c08a7924796 It's actually surprising (but not really, considering), the amount of people who just seem to not give a *hit, provided it didn't mess with their fishing (and since it was midweek). I'll steal this quote from FB, but it sums it up pretty well: "the gov't does't think anybody would put clean ecosystems, health rivers, or fish over the economy or even over a few jobs. The gov't doesn't think we care and we aren't proving them wrong". Considering they blamed the last outbreak of Sapro on stress due to low water in the fall, really hope we don't see it flare up again... Despite how much I care for the river, a massive wipeout would be nice to just make all the people who take it for granted stop and think. Though, losing a large proportion of our Brownies doesn't seem to have made anyone blink about how our river is managed.

They need to retain water in glenmore for over winter drinking water.

Bah, double post

That's a big jump to anything about "rights". I'd say the same thing about guys sinking their drift boats over the weir...

45 m3/s now... Guess they should have built Harvey's Passage right the first time..(or let nature take it's course with the rafters)

Fluctuating dam levels are brutal to invertebrates and fish in general. Just look at the Kananaskis river. Why not wait till end of October when the river is naturally around 60 cms?

See the forecaster notes for Wednesday. http://environment.alberta.ca/forecasting/ForecastersComments/forecasternotes.pdf What a joke. Wait, can we blame this one on flood forecasting as well?

My little CRV towed a drift boat for guiding for years

Is it really amazing? Those poor things don't get a break from the day the river clears up in June/July till it shuts in October. Wonder how big they would get with a draw system or a every-other year break... Fish with a person-caused injury should be the exception. Sad to see that it has become the rule.

Just bought a 2014 Tacoma in May after another trip to Terrace and back in my old CRV (thing made the trip ~10 times). Couldn't be happier with it, other then needing to upgrade the tires for the rainy days. With a cap on it (leer 100XR), it's pretty well my ideal fishing truck. At 7000km on it (took to terrace within 2 weeks of buying, whoops!), I'm averaging 12.4 L/100 km, which I'm more then happy with considering it's hardly broken in. Definitely worth looking at.

Well spurly, you made your 10 posts (and bringing threads back from the long dead). Feel free to head over to the trading post....

You have to do yourself a favour and try a Helios 2. I think you'd be hard pressed to find many that would call the Loops the best 4 weight out there. Then again, to each their own

Lots of info here: http://classes.uleth.ca/200901/biol4500a/Readings/Stelfox1.pdf

Fished prairie the other day and ran into a big otter. Couldn't have made my day any better. Amazing and beautiful creatures. Certainly less curmudgeonly then the other creatures that roam those rivers. Seem more at place too....

Thought it was Jim's proposal, unless I'm mistaken.

Well considering there was talk of allowing BT harvest from Lower Kananaskis, hopefully that will axe that talk...

Floating the crow (in any watercraft) will get you quite a few looks and likely no tires at the takeout.