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Gave a ski bunny a sunshine kiss once back in the day.

I'll second Lifesport, plus the staff are real helpful.

A welding shop in town did build it, Calgary labour costs I guess.

Real nice looks like a Steelhead

Where did you get that shirt?

I think that its great that they put it up. I haven't seen it in person so I don't have an informed opinion at this time, probably will go look at it at some point. I recall when the fish were put up on Glenmore there was quite an uproar. Art isn't supposed to have a purpose, its art and is supposed to cause an emotional response. Seems to me that this piece is doing just that.

There is a place on 11th Ave and 11 St SW called Spirit West and they recycle that all kinds of equipment, I'm sure they would take the waders..

Very sad to hear this I will miss him.. Like all the rest I enjoyed going to his shop; he was truly passionate about fly fishing.

You are not missing much right now. Floods really have changed the river. I have gone out twice in the last week, primarily to check out what's changed which turns out is a lot, managed one small rainbow on a prince and had a LDR on the worm. The major holes that I used to hit are gone, the old empty runs seem to still be there. A big run that was a go to for me has with a channel running behind it, so it is actually an island now. I think that it will be two years before the river is back to what it was BF. The fish are still there it is just a matter of finding them, and they will be transient until it all settles down. I found some really strange things, there is a ~100 yard long stretch where the river deposited a bunch of tomato bedding plants, they all produced. At the end of the tomatoes there is a beautiful sunflower, when I first saw it I thought it was an artificial. I hope that is all I find, will be walking all the old stretches to see what is. I will post as things progress.

We'll have to get out another time, thanks for the invite.

I am an enforcer of those rules

I heard it was open to Lost Lemon lookout. Don't know where that is in relation to the Elbow parking area.

Try in the actual Bragg Creek lots of little brooks in there. I would tell you to go to Elbow Lake, but the highway is still closed up that way because of the flood.

The last four times I called RAP they called back within ten minutes.

Wow!

Just signed up as a volunteer, there is a need for a lot more people. A night at the awards ceremony is in the mix if you do your part. Plus the experience of something unique.

With you on this too.

Used it for the Brad Pitt - Jesse James movie too.

I must agree. I have seen some nice fish in the smaller streams. Maybe they move up when the water comes down? I don't know, I'm not a fish and to make suppositions about fish mortalities sounds like fear mongering.

Walk and wade should be okay in two weeks, if we don't get any further rains. If it stays dry, I'm thinking we will get fire bans by the beginning of August. You heard it here first.

A buddy of mine went fishing downstream of the Bonnybrook treatment plant last night. Chucking big streamers and he snagged something really big. He says it gave a little then broke off. So he packed it in a went home cause of the skeeters.

Yes the Bow is open from the weir at Inglewood to Carseland, way downstream. The other rivers and creeks around Calgary are closed until the middle of June.

When I first started fishing creeks I would lose a dozen or so. Now I'm down to about 3 to 8. For me the most frustrating is stalking a rising fish, sneaking into position, the fish is still there and... my back cast gets caught in a spruce tree fifteen feet off the ground.

Nice pics thanks for posting. You ever going to do a blog log?