SupremeLeader

Close, hazel.

Do you want to put some money on that?

Thank you. I'm flattered.

High elevation lakes.

The main hazard this weekend will be the one the fish will be feeling. Apparently the temperatures are going to hit the 30's, and there is already an advisory not to fish the streams on the Eastern slopes. It would be my advice not to fish the ES streams this weekend, but if you must, you should fish them very early. Myself, I will be fishing outside Alberta. Somebody do me a favor though, and get some pics of all of the 'stewards of the wilderness' fly fishers out there this weekend who choose to ignore the advisory.

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I'm curious to see how many anglers will take note of this suggestion? Or will it be another bobber fest - river orgy out there this weekend?????

IMO, if you're seeing floaters and those temps. it's best not to fish it except very early in the morning.

I don't recall any river closures myself, but i could be mistaken. The FTR was closed around the Oldman because of fires in 04' or 05'?

The water temp has gotten quite high in many places this summer; hopefully, weather such as last nights rain in C-town is a frequent occurrence over the next month. A few years back the Bow got very warm; there were dead fish all over the place (mostly fish caught in the centre / down deep by boat fisherman, and then released near shore). I hope the Alberta Government / F & W has the foresight to put temporary closures on rivers should the temperature get dangerous for fish; this should have happened on the Bow a few years back (an FYI; Montana had special closures that season). I know there is a remark regarding this type of emergency action in the regulations.

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wtf? lol (at you)

"First of all where did I say foot traffic is comparable to ORV traffic, what I said was it does cause some damage, not as much as misuse of ORV's, please in the future do not misquote me." You said it here; "I take peronal offence to this as lots of my family mebers own ORV's and respect the wildress, your generalization about this is totally rediculious and unfair to the people that respect the laws, and what about you walking into the backcountry destroying untouched wilderness with your boot tracks, when you go into the back country do you piss in a bottle cause otherwise you are leaving a human scent in a untouched area." Dude, stop digging...

Keep digging yourself in a hole. Weak......like your spelling.

Indeed, but some people (bhurt) believe foot traffic is comparable to ORV traffic? They also believe in the government. And then there is the other other issues with ORV's http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/200...ild-killed.html

As I said before; weak.

Bhurt, You can play with my words all you want; and twist them all you want. I don't take my car off-road; I limit my impact. The purpose of ORV's is to venture off-road; to areas where regular road vehicles can't go. You said "How do you know this do you see every single person that goes deep into the woods, I know lots of people including family members that do not do this." Why would you purchase on ORV....... to drive down regular roads? You wrote "I take peronal offence to this as lots of my family mebers own ORV's and respect the wildress, your generalization about this is totally rediculious and unfair to the people that respect the laws, and what about you walking into the backcountry destroying untouched wilderness with your boot tracks, when you go into the back country do you piss in a bottle cause otherwise you are leaving a human scent in a untouched area." My boot tracks and piss do little damage compared to ORV's. As I said before, the noise alone disturbs vast areas.....entire valleys in fact. Furthermore, the tracks of destruction these vehicles leave in their wake are much worse that a walking trail or path. Why do you think you can't use these modes of transportation in a national park? "How is a spike belt going to solve anything but make someone madder and even more destructive to the area, as they then need to bring out another ORV and either fix the damage bike there leaving god knows what or have to drag it out. I have never been for damaging other peoples property and no way shape or forum back it up." The spike belt comment was in jest..........., it's called 'rhetoric'; look it up in the dictionary. "I disagree with you on this, giving them a place to go and use their recronation vechiles on pathways that are made is far better then allowing them to destroy areas that do not have pathways." You must have missed the part in the article that states that areas for ORV's would be used at "those more remote campgrounds where [perhaps] you could exit out the back of the campsite and on to trails". The plan is to open up more remote areas to ORV's. I understand I am drastic in my opinions, but your arguments are weak. It is also obvious you are an off-road enthusiast. ORV's are a plague, a mold infecting the back country. Why don't you tell me what good they do for the back country, instead of what some ORV users don't do?

Bhurt, The damage that ORV’s cause by the noise they create is enough of a reason that to ban them; not to mention the visible damage. People that use these vehicles don't care about the damage they cause; they turn a blind eye as they reach deeper into the wilderness with their rancid disrespect. People who use ORV's may respect the laws, however, they don't respect the wilderness; if they did they wouldn't use these vehicles to access the back country. I do agree that calling your MLA is the best method to counter these forms of ‘recreation’; however, a spike belt would likely be more effective. And judging by our governments recent plans I think the ORV problem is only going to get worse. Read: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/200...quads-bike.html Regards, SL

Quading; about the lowest form of transportation. These guys are just like their choice of vehicle; low-ends. Ban ATV's........keep the wild free from low-ends, disrespecting pricks, bad style, and laziness.

Love the post Wolfie. (thumbs up)

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Nice one!

You should have harpooned that whale.

I have met a lot of great land owners who are generally pretty good about access, but their are a few who think they own the river, etc. The worst part of encountering these individuals while fishing is that it really puts you off your day; none of us go to the river to argue. That said, if they start making threats I have now made a point of reacting; I'm typically with a few people and these landowners would be foolish to do something. If they ruin my day; I'll ruin theirs........

Actually they don'y own the water; there are only two places in Alberta were people own the river bottom. The first place is a small section of the Jumping Pound, the second is a section of Stauffer.