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Thought I would try my hand at some woven flies. I find it a pretty interesting fly tying technique. George Grant, who passed away November 2, 2008 at the age of 102!, was definitely the master of woven flies. It's worth a google to check out some of his flies, they are like works of art. These flies are tied using a double overhand knot technique that is actually pretty simple and fast once you catch on.

I use a 8wt , 3wt and two 5 wt. All single hand 9 ft . I only drift the bow so thats what i carry rigged up and ready to go.

Welcome to the site Flyster, and thanks for sharing the awesome photo's.

You've never heard of the lost lemon gold mine?

Nice bull Jay , totally awesome. Almost makes me wish i lived in Calgary

Awesome photo's Gary. Looks like someone carved a leaping fish in the top of that stump years ago

Pretty f--ed up justice system when four people break into a room armed with guns and only one of them goes to jail for it.

Dont think browns and brookies ever spawn together in the wild , there a man made fish like a splake ( lake trout crossed with a brook trout )

I was up fishing the bow this summer and who drifts by but Barry white , I think he was one of the first guides running clients down the bow. At first i thought it was santa clause but no it was just barry. I believe all you would need to guide in Alberta is a business lisense and some form of insurance in case you got yourself sued. If you happen to drown a few of your clients your going to want to have your ass covered.

Sorry to hear that Jay I know how you feel . I had a female Golden lab that was a fantastic fishing partner, very smart and at home around the water.

Awesome humble Totally enjoy watching all your video's on you tube ,Great stuff. Wheres your dog ? to tough of a trip for the little fellow

When i lived in Rocky Mt House 20 years ago i knew about a little tiny creek, it was on the way out to the N. Ram river. where it crossed the road it was only about 2 feet wide. But if you stopped a few clicks back and bushwacked for about 1 KM you would find an old beaver dam. This old dam had once made a pretty good pond , but the beavers where gone so the pond was slowly draining as the dam wore away. You could start at one end of it wade out to the old creek channel and work your way down the channel to the dam , just throwing out a small black woolly bugger you could catch oh 35 to 40 Brook Trout in about 1 1/2 hours . The smallest been about 2 pounds, most about 3 and a few that where over 4 pounds. and when you hit the dam you got out of the water and had a puff and a cigerette , give it about 1/2 hour and you could fish it again So one day am headed out to the N. Ram with my brother in law and i tell him about this place and make him swear to never tell a soul if i take him there. Of course he is like oh ya i wont tell anyone. well to make a long story short him and his frends destroyed that place in, oh about a month they had caught and killed every brookie that was in there. Plus there was a nice little spring, you could take a break at. Have a nice cool drink or cool off a few pops in there. Thats where him and his friends cleaned there fish, next time i went out there fish heads and guts all over the nice little spring i used to take a break at. Its amazing how fast a few pricks can destroy a little gem like that.