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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.

Its tough when you get that. I have found that a unweighted non beadhead hares ear works best in those situations and you have to get it to rise up. I think the fish are picking off nymphs that are coming off the bottom, going to the top. Very hard to imitate, but I have had some success with that method, then again I have been skunked as fish were rising all around me too. Just my two cents.

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?

I wouldn't think that you need a fighting butt on a 5 wt, but that is my opinion. I have noticed that on some rods the butt is removable, don't know if that is the case with the one you are looking at.

I filled out the survey from the government on this last fall. Now there are people that said they werenn't aware of the plan. Must have been too busy drinking beer and riding on their quads. I am afraid with the current cutback climate on the government side that a lot of the proposed changes and recommendations will be put in the "do later file". A lot more voters on the anti-change side.

I always carry bear spray, and drive those I hike with crazy with my bear bells. One guy said to me, " I don't know why you have those things, you never see any bears."

I had the same happen to me twice, both times at the tip. Gave the rod away.

There is a campground called Nature's Hideaway. It is at the confluence of the Bow and Highwood Rivers, so gives you the option of driving to the Sheep and/or Highwood. I have heard rumours that some people rent out the permanent camper/trailers they have set up there. Maybe look on Kijiji or call the campground.

For both underwater shots I released the fish and they swam a few feet and were resting so I slowly approached lowered my camera into the water and snapped a few shots and the fish then bolted for deeper water. Some of the pics were blurry, but those two turned out the best.

With the snow and the end of the 2012-2013 license year I thought I'd post some of my shots from last year. A nice memory A big bad bow brown Cuttie The last dry fly fish of the year for me. End of September A Crowsnest fish on the nymph A beautiful fall day Mr Cutt What the hell is this thing? Yours truly and a friend July in the Highwood, that hurt! The last shot in the evening

I'm sure that someone has posted this before, but I can't seem to find it. So how exactly does one post photos? Thanks

I have some Caddis waders very affordable and they came with a tube of patch repair glue, which I needed after the first day, old barb wire lying in the brush. Haven't leaked and they are 3 years old.

Drunk Russian figure skating judges looking for the Palliser Hotel in Sunnyside. Drunk German lugers bringing their own beer to COP. Drunk French hockey players demanding to be drug tested at the Saddledome. Ah yes it was a fun time, and a once in a lifetime experience.

The one shot looks like you were off Oregano

I signed up for TU`s brook trout suppression program. Had some nice fishing and grilled some tasty char. I just got an email from Jim Stelfox and it sounds like the program is coming along nicely and has had some favorable results. There were over 2000 brook trout eliminated from the streams involved with some guy named Hansma bonking 10% of them himself. The guy sounds like a beast.

Yeah the reserves on the BC side are absolutely huge, the Grassy Mtn Alberta side not so much.

Grassy mountain was an existing stripmine that closed in 1957 there are pits and lots of old mining remnants from when they just up & left last time. Kind of a cool hike up that way. It remains to be seen if a mine goes ahead, as the reserves in place are not big by comparison. In the old days they hauled the coal by truck down to Blairmore to the old tipple just east of the golf course. Maybe they would take the land that the River Run development was supposed to be built on for the transfer to trains, though the coal dust would be an issue there and nowadays that is a concern, not like in the 50's and earlier.

www.facebook.com/flyfishingnationals Here you go.

There is a contingent from the Hook and Hackle spearheading this. There was an effort made to not release too much information because a lot of the details have yet to be decided. The stillwater venue is Chain because there are complicated transportation logistics and cost factors involved. Some other water bodies were considered but they did not meet the necessary criteria.