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Hey Y'all thas my cuzzin Bubba He's rippin it up reel good! F#+*kin moron!

I'm okay with that.

Oh by the way there is a nice post in the BC reports about fishing on the island.

Nice shots, but that's my spot, now everyone knows about it

I was on the Crow yesterday and after the torrential downpour the water temperature was 10.

Was on it yesterday, it's better than I remember it from before the flood. They are hauling logs on it at this time though. So take care.

Might stop by too.

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on who's asking

I didn't know it was the first of April.

Thanks for the post and pics. No matter what you are fishing for, it still requires strategy and skill. I bet your grandson remembers your outing for a long time.

I'm not sure about the stonefly species, but I have also had very poor results with fishing the Bow this spring. My theory is that it's the residual effect from the 2013 flood. The river got scrubbed out and the fish are behaving differently as a result. I have seen big fish, have hooked and landed very few fish and the predictability has changed. One thing is that I haven't seen any smaller sized fish, so that might be an effect too. It is a different river now as far as I am concerned.

What time of day were you out?

I've had two close calls with bears. Once a young Grizzly charged me and then veered off and split. The other was a black and he was stalking me. Way more scared with the black than the grizzly, then there was my buddy who was chased around a tree for what he said was forever. Only thing that made the black bear leave was anther couple of hikers that the bear went after, they had bear spray and got the bear to leave. The bear was put down a week or so later, a healthy male black bear in his prime. Kind of like to one that killed the guy sleeping by his fire a couple of weeks ago in BC.

Managed to get a look at a few of the flowing waters in the foothills this weekend. The Red Deer basin is low and clear. The Highwood is a bit high and quite dirty, the Elbow is a bit murky and the smaller streams are all low and clear. A few weeks to the opening and who knows what the conditions will be like then.

I always think it's funny that people think Grizzly's are more dangerous than Blacks. Yet more people are killed by Blacks every year than Grizzly's. Then there are the Polar Bears, the Inuit have a saying that when a human and a bear meet there will be a death.

I thought I'd let you all know that there will be a bike ride on Saturday on Highway 22 starting at the Bar U Ranch going 50 Km south then turning around and coming back. So there will be bicyclists on both sides of the highway from 9:00 AM to about 2:00 PM be careful at the turnaround points which will be particularly congested. One at the 30 Km point about 3 Km north of the Chain Lakes Campground and the other at the end, which will be about 3 Km north of the Claresholm intersection in the Porcupine Hills. .Plus the northbound cyclists will be turning left into the ranch site at the end of the ride at that intersection.

Good to see Humble, I was afraid he'd hung it up.

Yes Happy Mothers Day to all. Appreciate all they have done for you and speaking from experience, remember they won't always be around to appreciate.

Ah that's just making the wait better. Thanks for the post.

A true icon of the Alberta fly fishing community, I pass on my sympathies to all close to him and we are all left a little better by his legacy.

There have to be big changes in the regulations for random camping and maybe even have some areas declared off limits to that use. At least until as the article states the vegetation has a chance to recover. There are many areas down along the Oldman and in the Castle that are packed dirt with not even a blade of grass growing anymore.

Also ran into a blonde grizzly on the Oldman. Saw some tracks and decided the bear had gone the other way. So after fishing a couple of holes I cast along a fallen tree and hooked a beautiful big cut. I tend to whoop and the bear popped out of the bushes, charged and veered off away from the river and into the trees. I never even had a chance to grab the bear spray, and lost the fish too. I reeled in and headed for the truck and drove home.

Few years ago at the end of September a buddy and I ended up flipping my canoe on the bow between Legacy and Carseland. Drifted along for a bit and just before a set of rapids had a guide with clients rescue us. Then warmed up on shore and hiked about two miles downstream around cliffs and got to the beat up canoe which enabled us to get to my truck. Thank god it was a sunny day and for the kindness of the guide and his clients.

Nice, but no wonder I didn't get any brookies out of there, you caught them all:)

Nice fish, nice pix, looks like a great set of trips. Thanks for the post.