[Ldr]

Does "LDR" mean Long Distance Relationship?

 

And, do people say LDR when they hook a fish but it get unhooked before you get a chance to get it close enough to have any kind of relationship with it at all?

 

Cheers,

 

 

[Hooks?]

If cost doesn't matter, which is the best hook brand name to use to tie flies, and why?

[Do Waterfowl Spook Fish?]

I saw a large california gull eating a 16" fish... not sure if it was already dead though, i suspect it was. I don't think waterfowl scare fish. However, other birds definitely do. For example: eagles, ospreys, herons, pelicans. However, herons are very good an not getting noticed. Btw, there is a very large heronry just across the boat ramp at policemans with at least a dozen "live" nests.

 

An interesting story was the time last summer I was fishing fallen timber. I had snuck up on nice brown sipping PMD's, just as I was preparing to make my first cast it all went to hell. I was midstream just outside of a beaver hole, and out came the beaver. To mine and the beaver's surprise he surfaced about 4 feet from me and WHACK!!! He did the tail think and spooked the brown that was about 5 meters upstream. The water was clear enough I saw him bolt to god knows where.

 

That being said, I spend all last summer fishing next to a beaver's house on the bow river. He would swim right past me within 2 meters and not pay any mind, and the fish didn't pay any mind either. Of course, this beaver never did a tail whack.

[Calgary Bow River Weir Project (harvie Passage)]

i would suggest it's not nearly as large as you think, I would estimate around $3-4 million annually. I came up with these #s like this. Let's assume there is 80 guides on the bow, assume everyone of them gets 60 days on the river (which is probaly above the average) each guide charges on average $450. (80x60)450= $2,160,000.00. Now if you double that for tackle, food and hotels $4,000,000 is a fair number. Plus I feel the numbers I used were fairly high. No one is getting rich guiding.

 

ON top of that you aren't going to see many rafters downstream of police and upstream of Bearspaw, there is tonnes of awesome river to fish.

 

Actually, I thought it would have been about 2million.

[Calgary Bow River Weir Project (harvie Passage)]

I saw some guys kayaking of the river right at the rock pile nearest to deerfoot yesterday evening. There was about eight of them all suited up but only one or two kayaks. I think they were taking turns doing the rapid. Wether they were safety experts from the fire department or members of the public, I don't know.

 

Wether or not drunkard rafters will ruin the river, I suspect that if they do begin to litter and abuse alcohol professional fishing guides will lobby the local authorities to more strictly enforce safety and public nuissance issues. Remember that bow river fishing brings in a lot of money in revenue to this city, and rafting drunkards do not. Also, the increase in length of navigable water within the city might warrant the addition of resources to the patrol team (one or two more patrol boats).

 

Does anyone have an idea just HOW MUCH revenue guided fishing on the bow river generates ???

 

 

[San Juan Worms - Something To Think About]

Picked up the new Fly Fusion at the Crowsnest Angler for the weekend Barnaby trip. I was reading Gary Borgers article "The Fish as Prey" and noticed something interesting - and definitely new to me.

 

In talking about how water absorbs wavelengths of light differentially, he mentions that red light is completely sucked up by 3 feet down, and by about 30 feet down, only a little bit of blue light remains.

 

Then he says "Thus a red fly below 3 feet looks dark gray."

 

First thing I thought was "huh! so you're telling me San Juan Worms look dark gray in >3 feet of water?!"

 

Was thinking about it some more and it seems to me like the actual aquatic worms that the SJW is imitating are that dark gray/green color.. don't believe I've ever seen a red one. So I guess.. the color change of the red SJW's more closely resembles the naturals than other colors?

 

Did any of you read this article? What are your thoughts on it?

 

 

Does anyone scuba dive? I do, and I can GUARANTEE that you can see red and many other colors DEEP.

[Are You Tying Barbless?]

Hey guys, was reading an old Canadian Fly Fisher and I started to think about this.

 

My next poll will/would be about favorite brands of hooks, but I would like a serious tier to do it; I haven't tied flies in years, and don't have the familiarity with brand names.

 

Smitty

P.S. I voted for the last one.

 

 

 

I prefer to tie on Daiichi.