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Randy I'm glad you are waiting until May to fish. Perhaps we will have a chance to fish before you educate all those rainbows. Just remember us dumb guys from closer to the mountains need a break before all you local pros hammer the lake

I just read on another forum that UFA is buying Wholesale sports. Interesting events happening as Bass Pro makes it's way to Alberta

Thanks Jeff. He was a big bodied bird, but not much of a beard. My partners both got Tom's as well. One was a huge bird with about a 9" beard, the other a jake. The jake actually had a bigger beard than mine. It was only around 5" (I actually didn't bother to measure it since it was so short). It was nice to get out of Alberta and escape this storm you guys got to enjoy. We brought our rods along, but the it was -10C in the morning and most of the lakes are still frozen on the west of the mountains as well.

Beautiful "whistling trout" shot. We have a pic of a friend french kissing a sucker--it's a classic. Can't wait to get it in an important slide show for him.

Got some feathers, wrasselin' was awesome

Years ago there was a number of beaver ponds with rainbows to 20". It was awesome ninja fishing in 2 ft of water. I don't think they get stocked any more though.

The fish are in REALLY deep water, like 2 to 7 feet!

Nice shots. I am going to try and find some dancing turkeys this weekend. Hopefully I can collect some feathers for tying.

Don't tell Randy

Just relax Randy, you really don't NEED to fish yet. I think you should wait until May just so that you are sure you want to go.

Water rights would be from Bob Allen's trout farm on Lott Creek. He has so much ground water flow he dosen't need to transfer water from the Elbow. Therefore he is able to sell his transfer rights to someone else. I bet water is pretty expensive...

They should have called them whites

Be very careful Badger, it's full of leeches and minnows. They might try to sink the Pac 9000.

Happy Birthday cranky old fart. Hope you have an excellent year playing outside.

No problem Yugo. I only fight over spots with Rick. I wouldn't hassle visitors. Hopefully your tendon calms down. I ruptured mine a while ago and it takes a long time to get back to wading. My calf muscle never did recovery fully. Hopefully you get a chance to exercise some of Rick's private trout again soon.

Glad you guys had fun. Looks like you made it down to the area with the spruce trees. I was the guy you talked to at the parking lot.

Second pic is great. Looked like me this afternoon

Soon Troutlover, we filled up the memory card on Thursday. We need a new camera

Those will never work. OK, maybe they look awesome.

Troutlover, the reason Bullshead can maintain it's water levels now is because water is sent downstream in a pipe as opposed to the open creek bed. The amount of evaporation from the creek was huge, and therefore a vast amount of water was removed from the reservoir. Today, there is actually more people being served with less water loss. The effeciency of this water transfer leaves us with year round fishing. The irrigation districts are now looking at piping water in a lot of areas that used to run open ditches. It makes sense, but there will be quite a bit of "man-made" habitat lost along these areas where water used to flow through the Alberta "desert".

You guys down there in the tropics get to see everything first. The Bow is just polluted with Mallards waiting for the ice on the ponds to melt. It was nice to see a Killdeer today as well. He better be careful along the shore because giant pieces of ice were calving off today and exploding into the water.

There was lots of Pintails on the Bow today. Even saw some Gadwalls and the all impressive Shoveler. A lot of new birds have returned home this week.

Awesome shots Max. We live in an awesome area!

They flip over to loose altitude when coming in to land some times. Pintails do it at greater speeds and makes for a great show.

Clive I'm not afraid of the ice. It makes for good cover (undercut ice bank). Your feet freeze whether there is ice on or off at this time of the year. I never said I was smart, just willing...