Gary

Gloomis IMX pro. The 4 wt is 8.5’ but handles large steamers and sink tip very well. Never thrown a full sink.

that would be it..one of two rods were sold. Thanks

Had a rod posted for sale and now the post is gone. Why?

That is undoubtedly part of the most beautiful drive in North America. Hope it is sunny so you can enjoy the glaciers and peaks.

Enjoy your vacation Del. Give Kai and his dad my best. You picked a great place to stay for your time in the Pass. Try a Good Morning Bagel at the fly shop. Like Northfork said the Rocky area has some unique places to chase fish and you will enjoy it.

No intent to short change the Rocky area. Just thinking if a guy has only two days you cant go wrong with the Pass. I fish the rocky area quite often and love it with the Clearwater being at top of my preferences. It is definitely worth exploring.

Early fall is a great time to fish Alberta and you should do well. The streams will be low, clear, and cool. Near Rocky the browns in the Clearwater River will be willing to play. The Raven and Stauffer are also good but quite challenging. The area of the Ram that garners all the raves is extremely difficult to access on foot. Unless you want to book a helicopter you would do well to not try. The Blackstone is easier to access but the river bed is in a high energy flood plain and the wintering holes change too much to produce numbers of cutthroat but is still fairly good. There are other streams in the area that are fun but come with their own challenges. Fishing out of Rocky you would be doing a fair amount of travel. I believe you would do better to go south out of Calgary and fish out of the Crowsnest Pass. The area has very good fishing for Cutthroats, Rainbows, Browns, and Bulls. The Crowsnest River and Oldman River and its tribs are easily accessible and information on where and how is easily obtained in the local shops such as Crowsnest Cafe and fly shop in Coleman where you will not only get info and needed flies but also your lunch and or breakfast.

If you like Hardys consider the Hardy Sirrus glass rod with their sintrix resin. Nice casting rod with that nice fibreglass soul but with lots of backbone for longer casts and handling fish.

looks good and works fine

I believe it would require a change to the National Parks Act which would have to be passed by parliament or an order in council. Regardless we do have to be diligent ourselves. I did buy another pair of boots so that I would have a pair for the Bow and one for other waters. The first weekend in April I travelled up through the parks on my way home and renewed my parks licence in Lake Louise and just as I was walking out the door the officer called me back and showed me the new "regulation". I was a little taken aback as my new boots were felt but before going fishing in the Athabasca I stopped at online sports in Jasper to see if could get some boots without felt. They had none and were unable to get any. All boots they had in their store, there were lots, had felt soles with more coming in with their spring order. She was informed by Parks, though, that the order was rescinded and that they were to pull all the inserts with the reg out of the park regulations.

acting outside of their authority..not properly having the reg enacted.

Seems the ban will come about once it is passed into law by the feds. No word exactly when and what parks they will include.

They acted very quickly with out completely looking into the ramifications and have pulled the ban on felt in Jasper not sure about Banff

go to a good camera shop. There was a good one down by the MEC store in Calgary and buy a good quality monopod. I bought a Manfrotto there a few years back. The leg extends by loosening push clamps. It cost less than any I have seen in fly shops and is far sturdier. You will not likely bend it under most stress levels you will encounter. In my mind without a doubt the best bang for the buck I have found

I bought a 71/2' browning 5 wt in 1978. While I owned and built sage, and lamiglass graphite I usd the browning for probably over 75 percent of my fishing up until about 5 years ago. I only stopped using it because the fibreglass is showing signs of fatigue and because of the super rods g loomis is putting out. I am looking to get another fibreglass rod just because of that feel only they have.

I have had a Regal since they first came out...1978. Thousands of flies tied not one single issue. Never see a hook slip and is great to travel with (pedestal model). You can't go wrong with one.

An enjoyable 10 minutes. Thanks. Super vid

Maxima Chamelon is the best if you can find it and find it in the sizes you want. Maxima ultragreen is very good and most shops carry it

Damn, now we find out we should have sent you to skip our team!

Good to see you have a sense of humour. Enjoy your tying

Nope, no one else does this. You may want to seek counselling

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Background: The issue of guide licensing was brought to the Provincial Round Table in our fall session last year by Keith Rae. There did not seem to be much desire to deal with the issue by both the participants and fisheries people. The issue came close to dying during our spring sitting until I urged the members to at least come to grips with the issue by setting some direction. The group agreed to establish a sub committee to investigate the matter and bring back recommendations to the round table. A number of individuals agreed to sit on the committee and our first get together was a conference call back in May to establish how we would proceed. The following is the outcome of that conference call. 1. Fisheries Management Branch agreed to: a. Assemble and circulate Department of Transport information pertaining to the regulatory requirements for the operation of boats hired for charter b. Acquire and circulate information of Government of Alberta requirements for licensing businesses c. Acquire and circulate information of Tourism Parks and Recreation licence requirements for running a commercial enterprise within areas under the management authority of TPR d. Retain the services of a facilitator to run a one day workshop in early September to frame out a discussion document for the October Alberta Fisheries Management Round Table. e. Compile a list of guides and/or businesses with an interest in the subject of Licensing of Recreational Fish Guides for the purposes of including them in discussions and workshop invite. 2. Task Group members requested to: a. Compilation of interested guides / businesses 3. Next Steps a. FMB will make arrangements to retain a facilitator b. Task Group members can expect to be contacted in advance for input into workshop material. c. Likely date for workshop is September 12th – Edmonton Now life being what it is with everyone dealing with what they have to and the goverment apparently moving away from their committment to the Provincial Round Table much of the above didn't happen. Fortunately Keith has a passion for the issue and with help, I believe, from the northern Walleye trail people has pushed the issue forward by setting up the meeting being talked about here. Below is the agenda for this meeting. 1:00 a.m. 1. Introductions - Opening Remarks – Keith Rae – Ken Crutchfield 2. Participant Feedback on Expectations for Meeting Outcomes 3. Review and prioritization of Issues 4. Sequential discussion of issues (intent is to conclude an outcome which sets out direction ) 5. Closing remarks PROPOSED Process for Review and prioritization of recreational fishing guide licensing issues: 1. Participants will be provided a handout of issues compiled feedback with various recreational sport fish guides and stakeholders. 2. Participants to review, expand, modify the list under agenda item #3 3. Participants will separate items into 3 categories. Those categories are: • To be addressed by fish managers • To be addressed by task group composed of recreational fishing guides and fish managers • To be addressed exclusively by a task group composed of recreational fishing guides. 4. Items will be prioritized within each category by participants who will then determine the order of items to be discussed. 5. Notes will be compiled of direction / action arising from discussion. Notes will be distributed to all the invited participants Everyone here should be able to see now that this is the very beginning of the process. Should this move forward you can expect to see more people in the industry and other stakeholders participating in the proceess. There will be government representation at this meeting. I am going but I am unsure as to how many others will be in attendance. In my understanding this is a group looking to be successful in convincing fisheries that fishing guides in Alberta should be licensed. One minor problem I see so far is the optimism shown in the agenda that fishing guides will all be on side with this. Just as oil companies should not be the group that decides what royalties they will pay the province, guides alone should not be deciding on whether or not they are licensed or regulated. As far as my opinion on whether guides should be licensed. Absolutely.

Damn good story...best reading on here for a long time

you can take the rod to a loomis dealer. they will get a return authorization and send it in. It will cost you $70 and you will get a new rod not just the tip