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People just don't read the regs, my brother was fishing with barbed hooks and he didn't know that Alberta has been barbless for years. And yesterday I was running along the river by the Centre Street bridge and saw a fly fisherman there. I stopped and told him the river is closed there and he said no, I said read the regs. He actually had them in his vest and when he realized that I was right he was all apologetic and asked where it was open. Ignorance is no excuse but many times it is the reason,

[ Milankovitch's data is excellent, but try to understand it, it would never support the rate of temperature change that had occurred over the last 100 years. It does support the rate of change as his work shows a 100 year periodicity, it's just not accepted by the "peer group", because it casts doubt on their "research". I hate faulty science, when your mandate is to prove manmade global warming at the exclusion of all other factors, that is faulty science. A true hypothesis takes all factors into consideration and reaches a conclusion based on this.

The only problem with the peer scientists is they are one voice. Anyone who brings in any data that is outside of the realm of the peer groups expected parameters, is automatically dismissed. It is true that 6 billion humans live on this earth, however they still have much less mass than the ocean and inifinitely less mass than the sun. All the models used by the current researchers into climate change, attribute no temperature variability to the oceans or the sun. There is no effect attributed to the the shape of the earths orbit, the axis of the earths rotation, or the eccentricity or precession of the earths orbit and axis, or the thermal inertia of the oceans. The research of Milankovitch has been ignored. Which is also the case with Abdussamatov's work on the 200 year sunspot cycle. But then they are merely astrophysicists and what the hell do they know. I'm sure David Suzuki and Al Gore are much more qualified to give an opinion on these matters.

Well put Smitty. The envirnmentalists are just as bad as any other lobby group. The original intention was well meant, but then the organization became bigger than the cause. Lots of fat salaries at Greenpeace et al.

Yeah parents aren't always to blame, but lots of times they are. I was down at Castle Falls on a long weekend last summer. There were about 8 underaged teenagers standing on the cliffs across from the picnic area, drinking beer and throwing cans in the river. There are all kinds of signs saying no alcoholic beverages, a young female fish cop showed up and one of the kids mothers runs down and yells across the river that the police are there and to dump the beer. The kids were half-cut and casually waded back across the river where the cop tried to ticket them. All the cop got was attitude, the mother took off and got the father and the group of them just got all over the young woman. I had to give her credit though she didn't back down. But the example the parents plainly made was that law and order is only for others, personally you can do whatever you want. I wouldn't be suprised if some of those kids end up in jail or worse. It was a pretty poor thing to witness, I should have pulled out my cell and taken some video and posted that on you tube.

Oh and I caught a 18 inch whitefish on a size 8 hopper at the beginning September on the Highwood.

I think they were probably taking midges of some type, I have seen the same thing on the Crowsnest in winter.

In my opinion the Elbow is one of the under-rated rivers in and around Calgary. It has a surprisingly diverse population of fish of various sizes and species, and.....

I'm thinking that it will be the year where the battle of Alberta will be back in force. From what I've seen so far both teams will be competitive. It's a good thing.

I agree, but it sounds like he isn't eating much, and lost a pile of weight os he is really grouchy. It looks like he would kill for a cheeseburger and fries.

There are different colors and sizes in various waters, be it lakes or streams. I have found the boatmen in the Bow are tan to a light peach color on the underbody.

That's cool, I have a friend who has a place right beside the white church and we have a place over in Coleman and ride the bike path just about everytime we're there.

Too late, just kidding because I've fished there lots and the biggest one I've ever caught was a 14 inch bow. Is your Blairmore place right by there?

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Yeah all you whiners and complainers my complaint is with YOU. If you don't stop it I'm going to cry.

My take on it is water temp and levels. Really messed up this year for most of the summer. On the long weekend on the Crow I saw great big orange colored stones, not October caddis because I caught one, about an inch long dive bombing the water and laying eggs. But the fish weren't biting. If anyone hits the Castle this weekend let us know how it goes.

That looks like a great trip, thanks for the post. I have to get back there some day.

No we electrified them, we did tunes like " Walkin Blues" & "I just wanna make love to you" songs by Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker et al. We essentially covered cover tunes. ie Led Zep, Mountain, Foghat etc. I had way more hair then.

Hopefully the october caddis get the fish interested in big dries by then. Shouldn't be a problem, unless the weather doesn't co-operate. Two weeks ago they were hammering size 12 stimmies.

I don't think it's pressure. The Castle has been fishing well, and the Highwood was fishing well until we got all this cold rain in August. Where I fish the Highwood it doesn't get much pressure, earlier in the summer I got a 16 inch cutt on my first cast on a stimmie. Then followed it up with 10 others of various sizes, all on the dry, in about 4 hours. Water temp was 14 C to start the day and ended up at 16 C in the afternoon. That was when everyone was crying about high temps and low water levels and the fish were all going to die etc. So I went back at the end of August water temp was 7 C to start and ended at 11 C. I had to go through my fly box and watch the sipping fish to figure what to use. Ended up with 3 fish for the whole 8 hours. Meanwhile we went to the Castle on a Sunday, in the middle of the random camping mess. Got a 14 inch cutt on my first cast on a stimmie, and got a newbie into his first fish on a flyrod, after he lost 3 others all in a row. At a piece of water covered in footprints with the usual mess of beer cans and cigarette packages. We fished for about one hour, because my wife and his mom wanted to head home. In my mind cold, high water = low insect hatch numbers = slower fish metabolism = lower catch rates.

I have noticed the same thing, my guess is that the water levels are higher and the temps are colder. The only place where it has been the same as in years past is the Castle. There the water levels are normal and the temps a bit cooler than what I have seen before.

Jimmy Carter flyfishes too. Along with his wife.

Well in another life I played in a blues-rock band. Old Robert Johnson tunes and the like. My favorite blues harp player has to be Charlie Musselwhite, saw him at the Calgary Folk Festival in 2008 and he just is incredible.

The Elbow downstream of 22 could be as good as streams like Fallentimber etc. It does have poaching issues and is a bit of a freestone river. But there are some hogs in there, of various species.