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    Bow River Access Denied

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    DONE!

     

    As of noon today, 311 is awaiting replies from various entities who may be responsible for the blocked access.

    I do not know what, if any, authority 311 has to address the problem, but their operator was already familiar with this issue, and receptive to my complaint.

    Took previous poster's advice and contacted my City Counsel Person, via e-mail at her website.

    Requested she dispatch a city employee with bolt cutters to remediate what appears to be an unlawful installation of gate and lock.

     

    How To Fish The Elbow River In Calgary?

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    In all my years of fishing the elbow river, probably about 10, I've only ever caught one fish. it was the skinniest most pathetic looking brown trout you could ever imagine right under neath macleod trail by the stampede grounds. i've heard whispers on this board and others about the variety of species and sizes available to those who dedicate the time to fish the elbow river downstream from the city's source of drinking water. I'm just a kid who wants to catch some fish, just broke my curse yesterday with a nice rainbow but I've been trying to catch something for a few weeks now.

     

    Andrew

    Andrew, don't give up.

    The strikes against us fishers on the Elbow are the dam, which often needs to allow high volume, and the inner tubes and rafts, which on a day like today will keep you feeling like you are casting in a bowling alley.

    Try the late evening. rafters are mostly gone. Sandy Beach is my go to spot.

    Caught my one and only after dark fish there by flipping my dry fly out to the slurping noise by a pool.

    14" brown.

    Have had a few successes in daylight there also, and then just past the stampede grounds, about where 12 Ave (?) bridge crosses the river.

    Tight Lines!

    Belly Boats On The Bow

    in General Chat - Fishing Related

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    Exactly what I was thinking Taco and GLshooter..

     

    Unless you're in one of those bellyboats where you stick your legs through leg holes and your whole bottom half is in the water.. I can't see it being any more dangerous than the drunken rafting.. especially if you're wearing a PFD.

     

    Have floated the Bow in my pontoon boat often. Have seen/felt the big rocks nudge the bottom of pontoons in the rapids.

    And that's with my feet up and out of the water.

    For those few seconds, the river is in charge, and you are flotsam.

    I would not hop in my belly boat and expose my lower half under any circumstances.

    But then my voice is already fairly high.

     

     

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