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Thought I'd join the fray, there's one here of Bob and the most amazing invisible fish I've ever seen, check it out for yourself. Note no fish were harmed in the making of this photo.

Ah man now everyone knows MY SECRET SPOT . Nice pics, nice fish, good on ya.

Hey Snake, no haven't had the opportunity yet. Need a cool drizzly day to keep the raft hatch down and the real hatch up.

Well I think that if someone asks and they seem real sincere, I mean genuinely sincere. Then they can sit in the pumpkin patch and the Great Pumpkin will rise up, out of that pumkin patch, and maybe if they are definitely sincere will tell them about the sweetest honeyhole on the most gorgeous little stream. That is full of 16 inch native fish and where no one ever fishes.

Thanks for the nice pics, and report. Be careful though you might be giving away someones "secret spot".

Yeah thanks for contributions, and if it helps I only fished Quarry once last year in the middle of June and managed two fish one that was 31 cm and the other 25 cm, I fished for about 3 hours.

I had an interesting experience last year on the Crow, I was fishing at Frank and a CO approached me and asked for my license and to see my hook. I had the license and was fishing a hopper dropper. The CO said I was fishing with a barbed hook on the size 18 dropper nymph. I pinch all the barbs on the flies I tie, and I'd tied that fly. We had a bit of a argument, he had some type of chart and claimed according to the chart my fly had a barb. So he asked to see my flybox, which was full of debarbed flies. So he let me off with a warning. So maybe that is the point of warnings. Anyway I think for smaller hooks I'm going to start buying barbless ones to tie on.

If it's just to show the wife, then Co-op has maps of the bicycle trails and routes in Calgary and it has a pretty good picture of the river and access points etc. It's only a couple of bucks so your not spending a pile of money.

Thanks for the info all. I'll see if I can find who the owner is then.

I've been meaning to post this for a while now and seeing as the season is due to start in a couple of weeks I'd like to see if there is an answer out there. As you cross Threepoint Ck at Millarville if you look both upstream and downstream someone, I assume the landowner, has strung a wire across the creek along with No Trespassing signs. Is this an area where the owner has the water rights? Or is someone overstepping their boundaries? Either way it's :$*%&:

Do what I usually do, and hit a lake.

I've tried that lake a couple of times and have yet to catch a fish there, glad to see that you did better.

I usually listen to the birds while I'm out and keep an ear open for the sound of Mr Bear, but I had Blackie and the Rodeo Kings on once while driving to the Livingstone and it was hard to describe but it seemed to set the tone.

In my float tube I sit too low for front zip waders so I need to go to shore, I recall someone who said they rigged up a kind of hose and just let her rip into the lake. I suppose you could go the astronaut route and do the depends thing. But the neoprenes I wear are pretty tight so I don't think an adult diaper would fit.

I know of some of the people that were there and they haven't been "grads" for quite a long time. Except maybe from the Calgary Institute of *hit Disturbers. And yes you are right they weren't ATV'ers per se, but some of them did have OHV's.

Very well put Harps. And they did tear it up at Burnt Timber this year. So now the taxpayer is on the hook for the cleanup.

I heard that they was tearin it up by Burnt Timber.

I went down to the shack in the Crowsnest, my wife's sister and brother-in-law came along so I got to go golfing all weekend. That being said the river was getting progressively murkier each day.

I wouldn't eat any fish out of the Bow downstream of Calgary, as previously mentioned the sewage treatment plant doesn't remove the estrogen that comes from birth control pills. Also the storm sewers pump a lot of undesireable elements into the river. Now I have eaten brook trout from the Bow in Banff and that was some great eating fish.

I guess I'm just not as hockey mad as others, I usually don't watch any games until February or so. I generally support Canadian teams in the playoffs and I'm sure that Sidney and Alex will put on a good show, but personally I'm not interested in sitting in front of a TV for three hours to watch a couple of teams for which I have no allegiance. I think that TSN and CBC should broadcast all the games they can handle. It just brings more to the NHL that Canada provides. TV revenues, the majority of the players, our expertise as coaches and managers and even the paying fans at arenas in the States, ie the snowbirds in the south and the vacationing fans. Actually I don't think that Canadians have an inferiority complex at all, but I do think we are a rather compliant nation that just goes with the flow. I mean would the NHL really be in trouble if there was no team in Phoenix? I think losing a team in Winnipeg was a greater shame, and it increased the travel time and expenses for most of the teams in Canada. But this way a Leafs fan can fly to Phoenix or Atlanta and catch their favorite team, would cost about the same as picking up a pair tickets from a scalper in Toronto.

Anyways, should be a hell of a game 7 tonight between Pens/Washington. With Chicago left, the Bruins, and one of Pens/Caps, there's still plenty of good hockey to watch. Love the PVR, cause I'm going to see Lewis Black! I'll watch the highlights, the Yanks don't watch Canadian teams play why should we support the NHL when they refuse to recognize what this country brings to the league and hockey in general. I think Gary Betman is a pompous Napoleon ass.

It's the rain and the floodgates on the dams, at Cochrane it went from 37 cubic meters to 193 and now to 33. At Calgary from 63 cubes to 91 and now back to 67. I've noticed that this happens at this time of year a lot. From what I saw in the mountains on Monday runoff is a ways off, we need a string of hot days. I think it will be a late, short and intense one this year.

Well it's good that the legal system has judges that actually do the job of judging. As for the fish cop he was doing his job too. A fishing rod is a fishing rod, even if it is a toy. The judgement was made later. I forgot my license at home once and the fish cop took all my gear and I had to go to his office with my license to reclaim it.

I believe it is Eastern Irrigation District.