fishfreak

I've hooked 100+ cutties in 2 hours, but never had a 100 (landed) fish day. I hate to admit it, but I like catching fish - big ones, small ones, ugly ones, and the odd edible one too. And I'd do it again.

BC called... they want their steelhead back. Sweet fish!

bhurt, I saw your pile in the woods. this was right in the middle of the path... not your style. rickr, I pissed on the pile to mark my territory. I'm taking over!

nice browns!

I don't catch enough big fish to stop measuring, but I've only actually taped 1 fish in my life. All the others I measure against my rod or net if I need to. However, I only do this on 20+ inchers now. I like the arm measurement approach... I might try that next time. Maybe I'll tattoo the measurements on my arm. As I get old and wrinkly, an 18 incher will be a 24!

Hey, I found a pile of crap on a path on my way to the Bow on the south end of the city, and it had a lot of berry seeds in it. To me, it looked a lot like fresh bear scat. Have there been any reports of bears in the 22x area? It was a creepy (and long) walk back to the car in the dark.

nice salmon!

yeah!!! evil!!! yeah!!!

This run of warm weather should have them looking up, especially this weekend. Too bad I'm out of town.

Awesome pics! I'm pretty sure I know where you were, but I'll keep it quiet. Looks like you've had an eventful summer!

Been there, done that. I feel your pain, dude.

I'm not a pro, but here are my thoughts: Before the heavy July rain, I thought the cutty fishing was normal. The water temps were great (wet wading with no excruciating pain to the feet), bugs were hatching, and lots of fish to be had on the dry. After the July rain, I found that fish were harder to come by. I'm blaming the higher water flows and lower temps for this, as it seemed that the fishing were rising a little later (when the water wasn't as cold, ie. my feet didn't feel like they were going to fall off). I waited until there was a good week of warm weather before I returned to the cutty streams and was rewarded with some decent fishing days, but not as much surface action. I would say I've only been catching about 50% of my fish on the dry (and the rest on the dropper), when usually it would be 60-80% on the dry. I've found that rivers like the Liv have been getting a little tougher to fish on the dry since I've started fishing there in 2001. I remember in 2001/2002 sitting on a certain hole that held over 150 fish, and catching 50 fish between the 3 of us in a couple of hours. Over the last 8 years, the productivity of that hole has diminished as the fish have gotten bigger (and probably smarter). This year, I didn't get any in that pool, but landed a few nice ones in the faster water above it. My fish count has decreased, but the average fish size has increased. 16+ inchers were tough to find back then, but now I usually get some 18+ inchers (and sometimes 20+") in a typical day. I used to get away with fishing a green drake most of the day in mid-July, catching 20-30 fish with the one fly. Now, I need to switch up my flies a lot more and go smaller. Also Overall, I would say this has been a good year for cutty fishing for me, but not as many on the dry. Every year I'm working a little harder to catch them, but have been rewarded with bigger fish on the average over the 8 years I've been hitting the cutty streams. Just my observations...

no ego stroking here... just lots of awesome pics. thanks for sharing both the pics and the tribute to your grandpa. hope to see more pics from ya.

Nice colours on the cutties!

Thanks for the report GM. Yeah, I know that there are pockets of decent fishing in the area, but I also hope that, with some work, the Elbow can get as good as its cousins to the south. Gorgeous brown by the way. The colours are awesome!

Good luck on the procedure. Let's hope your vision improves. Maybe that's why you suck at dryfly fishing.

Let's hope that money is put into good use on the Elbow. I'd love to see that fishery improve.

Nice cuttie, and gorgeous water! I can almost feel my legs getting cold from those pics, hehe.

I think he dreamed this one up. It never happened. He THINKS he landed a few on a dryfly, and even threw in a few that he lost for good measure. He forgot to end the story with "... and then I woke up."

Nice pics!

boooyahhhhh!!!

Just a word of caution.... Don't look at Cabela's website, or you might end up buying one... or two...

It took me 3 years before I was able to consistently catch fish on the Bow, but even the odd time I still get skunked. It comes down to the right combination of fly/location/time of day/technique/skill/luck. It's a tough river to learn on. My recommendation - go with someone who knows how to fish the Bow, or note where people on the Bow fish, and go there the next day.

Good job on educating her. Sounds like she felt pretty bad and learned her lesson. It's tough to keep track of the different regs for those high country lakes, as they're all different.

glad you enjoyed it here. hope you're able to come back soon!