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Fish like to key into spots where there is good flow and especially up-welling of flows through clean gravel. These flows provide oxygenation for the eggs. With a bottom covered in algae like the Bow, redds look like places that have been swept clean. So the end of a run as it shallows out before a riffle (and even in the top of the riffle) is often a good spot for a redd. Fish often look for some over hanging cover in addition to good flows and proper substrate size. Take care of the next generation for future angling fun

What, no net!!! Great fish James and sweet pics. Glad you had such a great day

You're supposed to wear shorts for Cutty fishing

Wire brush on a drill?

Heard they want to check if Tubifex worms present too

I know someone who is part of a huge study looking at the Coho return on the Nitinat river on the west side of Vacouver Is. Biggest coho hatchery in BC I believe. They will be looking for all these viruses in the 4 year old fish that are returning this year. It will be interesting to hear what is discovered.

Just heard from a Prof that Parks is looking to hire some students to do some electrofishing and sampling looking for contamination. If you know someone looking for some fisheries work they should talk to Parks

Rotenone impairs the fish's ability to take up oxygen from the water. Perhaps it has the same effect on tubifex worms. The parasite is another matter

I have seen it carpet the bottom on the HIghwood below Longview in the past, and then a fews year later it is all gone. Not sure what triggered it, or made it crash

There is a ton of sediment in the river with all the bank collapses as well. This is ideal for the host worms to grow in

Is it possible there is flow through a little power station right on Hwy 1 and then off to the Bow? Looks like most flow comes from Two Jack lake to the power plant. Does anyone know if water goes from Johnson to the power plant via a gated pipeline? At least there is Sebee, Ghost and Bearspaw in the way

I imagine all this cutting was decided before the NDP came in

trout smrout....think of all the new places to rip around in the quad and make new mud pits

http://www.spraylakesawmills.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/C2L26_Upper-Livingstone_2016_2017AOP_Map.pdf

Future contact with CFIA sure will have a different flavor for me.

Makes a person sick to know the government hides the fact that a deadly virus is present that threatens every salmon species so that salmon trade with the US and China can stay open. Importing infected Atlantic salmon eggs to grow fish on the west coast...never was a good idea for so many reasons. Then they attack the reporting scientists who exposed the truth. Greed is so ugly

That is pretty scary. New creatures coming to the forefront as the environment continues to change. Hopefully these ones don't spread all over the place

Saw a funnel cloud come and go quickly yesterday so I thought I'd go look tonight. No funnel, but very cool aqua colored sky as the storm and lightning rolled in. Then all hell broke loose with sheets of water falling

I heard from a good source that the folks who got chewed on north of Ghost were actually following the cubs around thinking they were wolves. Mom grizz finally got fed up and educated the folks. Tip....don't follow grizzly cubs

Disc 39 changed my life

Thin skin plastic could be be an alternative

http://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2016-07-11/university-calgary-partners-trout-unlimited-collect-rock-snot-samples?utm_source=UToday&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=July-11-2016&utm_term=University%20of%20Calgary%20partners%20with%20Trout%20Unlimited%20to%20collect%20%27rock%20snot%27%20samples

Cool shots. Good to hear of all the juveniles coming along

Just south of Milo

The Dr was vacuuming the fish as usual. Hope you get some giant Roosters!