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I may have to invest in one of these.. especially if one decides to change his plans when he is the middle of no where like i was last year a couple of times by myself.. It would be nice if one could order a pizza and some cold beer with this device.

Take a couple of adults with you.. UberFly would would be a great guide /chapparone !

Missed that.. What was the native fish coddling ?

Very nice ! The Ram footage is awesome !

More likely 2014..as that it when the next set of regs will come out...

It's the Logo of a radical group that opposes how the ACA is funded and how it operates ! I am joking of course..I think....

Yes you are right but you are missing the point as many others have over the years. We don't have ANY C and R Stillwater for RAINBOWS in Alberta. There are other places you can keep fish. Can we not see on one lake how C and R may work and see what it produces ?

Yes you could have 1 fish under 40 ..I don't get the point of it if your trying to create a trophy fishery. If you want to eat fish get them from elsewhere.

I am not opposed to keeping fish to eat but in this situation.. Based on it's location and the amount of use the only way you are going to get and continue with a quality lake is.. 1. Reduce the stocking and adjust accordingly. 2.Catch and Release. These can be said for several of the so called quality lakes that have been established. It aint Rocket science.

My first move would be to stock pure strains cutties from other sources on those waters wecutties no longer exsist or are in low numbers. Remove as many undesireables first if necessary. What has to be remembered is not every lake or stream in watershed that historically had a certain type of native fish necessarily had those native fish. What i mean by that is take Athabasca Rainbows for example,They were not found in every lake and stream in the upper Athabasca watershed. I don't have a problem adding them but when I hear people say that rainbows or cutties have been wiped out of certain waters I ask the question..Where those fish ever there in the first place ?

So why not send the Biologist a solution to have those streams restored to what they were in the past. You may know those waters better than they do.

But the same issue regarding identity would exsist elsewhere as well..

Yes thus the conundrum in fighting the " War on Brook Trout " Not sure if your going to discuss this more Saturday or outline more streams that are going have similar regs as Quirk ? But if we are going to get serious about removing Brook trout and other exotics from flowing waters were Native Cutties and Rainbows should thrive then isn't it time to make a REAL effort to eliminate the Brookies. Maybe 20 fish limits.. A target list for anglers to go after these fish in listed waters. It just seems to me the approach that is being used is not agressive enough. Maybe that is about to change ?

So in otherwords Brook trout are crowding out the cutties ?

Can someone please explain to me why there is Zero Brook trout limit for Quirk creek ?

Can't disagree with you more. The fishing for Cutthroat in the province as a whole is far better now than it was in the 70's and eighties. The Highwood and it's tribs are a great example of that.

It would be nice to have it ALL.... It's possible but no political desire. It takes far to long to get anything done.

As long as you are following the rules. And yes I am aware of the Quirk Creek Project and there will be others.

Okay i will take it your just joking right ?

Very nice report ..Awesome Pictures... Just a fact.. there are several lakes in Banff that have Yellowstones and at least one has both West Slope and Yellowstones.

Excellant production. We don't have a lot of water in Alberta where there are pure strain cutties. Most of our cutties were introduced.

Nice ! Hopefully Jim agrees ..

Thanks for sharing this story and the great pictures. Sorry you guys had to go through that. That country has gone to *hit in terms of safety. Obviously though you guys did the best you could and still went fishing ! You will have some great a stories for the grandkids LOL

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