johnbransfield

bumb deadly flies and a good cause

His sandbar caddis is ver similar to a rock case caddis, which is an absolutly deadly pattern, so I would take a deadly fly over tradition. Isn't life about making your own traditions and legacies??

Ian Collin James has put togeather thirty boxes of his famous epoxy czech nymphs, which all procedes will go to our youth team. Our team will be competing at nationals in tremblent in september, and it is not cheap to try and get everybody there, pay hotel bills and whatnot. So if you would take a few minutes to check out Ian's deal on these beautiful flies I and my fellow team mates would apreciate it!! If you arn't interested atleast take a look at Ian's site it's very interesting and educational. Thanks all. Here is the link http://www3.sympatico.ca/ianjames/czechnymph.html

To be blunt, thats thats how i do it. Casting up stream keeping tension and stripping slack line in as the flies come towards you works along with highstick nymphing. Ultimatly i prefer to try to be as close as possible yet maintain a low profile, practicing traditional czech nymphing. but have adapted a more polish style nymphing which is a more long line technique for tough situations during compition when you need to fish your whole beat and it has produced fish for me that i have needed to boost me up after a bad session. Having said that, i use it anytime im nymph fishing. Watching my loop connector for any slight stop in movement that looks fishy and I strike. In which case i need a heavier fly to see all thats going on down there, and get to the fishes level, which makes me choose to bead rather then not too on a stream. When fishing loch style it is more less 2/3rds of the time because i usually have at least two flies beaded out of three on my line. Unless fishing epoxy buzzers, catatonic leaches, boobies etc. Along with the fact that I often will be using either and intermidiate or sinking line when fishing stillwaters. If i am fishing the shallows I will use beadheaded flies to get the leader down with a floatingline. So many variables, yet I usually choose to bead rather then not too.

I can understand why people shop at walmart and i respect that it helps alot of big families save money. but its hard to bring yourself to shopping there after seeing your grandfather close all 9 of his smalltown stedmans truvalue stores in a span of five years after having surved those communities for over 5 decades......

Definatly bead, i fish 100% without and indicator, so being able to feel that weight, and feel the fly ticking against the bottom helps tremendously and as a result you feel alot more strickes then you miss. But not just beads but weighted flies, perticularily cezch nymph bomb. Sometimes i will tie a bomb flie with three beads in the body, tapered from one big one at the head, then two smaller ones, wrapped in different coulered floss. If the flies don't have a bead head then they will most likly have some form of weight on the body, be it leadwire underneath of copper wire on PT. I try and tie with either tungsten or lead for the most part.

Been looking around and i think were going to go a little farther south, fish big spring creek and the missouri. Anyone here fished either of those rivers?? I hear big spring is quite impressive

Thanks for the info, i have heard good things about the missouri, so i might have to check it out....

I was wondering if theres any good fly fishing down there this time of the year relativly close to the border?? Anything close to eureka or whitefish??

Din thats the classic soft hackle, partridge and orange

Common lets get a few more peopel rounded up for tomorrow, i want to figure this poond out! It schooled me friday and im going back with vengence. We have two of us as it stands, the more the merryer they say!!

Great we have one taker already, how about around ten??? The middle pond, apparently thats were there is some good structures.

I have cabin fever and its too cold to stand in a river for 6 hours, so anyone up for ice fishing at carburn park sunday?????

Damn.... What a fish, im so enviouse!!! Now I can't wait to get school overwith and move down there!!!!

Bahaha to true rickr, when i go out in this cold i get frustrated with the ice in the guides, so i figured i would take up ice fishing. lol

I know you need permission to get on this lake, but is there some god ice fishing there?? Anyone on here fish there in the winter???

Honestly the best way to get better is to fish as much as possible, read as much as possible, and then read some more. Alot of people on this website are amazing fishermen, some post to things every day, some don't. At the end of the day it doesn't matter how posts you have its about how good of a fishermen you are. People like max and greg contribute alot to calgary's fly fishing comunity and from what i understand there both pretty great anglers. I also know that kristopher is also a helluva angler. There are definatly more then 15 or 30 members that matter,justthere are 15 or 30 memembers who contribute alot to this form and try and help others. Talk to people at a fly shop you get to know a regular there and he might lead you to someone that would be happy to fish with you. For the most part, if im not traveling to meet up with people on a river im fishing by myself, its always great to have fishing buddies ut honestly fishing buy yourself isn't so bad, you get to fine tune your own quirks and experiment alot and the internet is a great source to learn new techniques. Then put them to practice on the water. I guess what im trying to say is that there are plenty of people who don't contribute often on this site that are great anglers, and plenty of people who do contribute who are also very seasoned. but it doesn't matter what is said here at the end of the day it comes down to well you fish, and thats were real respect is from.

Glad to hear that luck has finally changed directions for you chris. Im happy for you man

I was out the last week of august, the sockeye on the babine was a blast, they are very powerfull salmon, but the highlight was definatly the Coho on the Kitimat, they were amazing fighters, with the sealice still hagin off of them. I was dissapointed at the steelhead though, it seams that we were there just a week or two too early, because there really weren't a whole lot of them i nthe river system yet, and we just missed them. It was a great trip though.

Rivers/creeks fished this year: Bow Livingston Cataract Crow Castle many Mountain streams Mulitiple beautiful tribs Grand Lake Stream East River Kitimat River Skeena Bulkley Babine Little Juniata Fishing Creek Spring Creek Marimachi Rivers I wished I fished this year: Humber Pinware WigWam Elk Czech Republic Types of fish caught this year (in descending order): Cutts Bows Whitefish Browns Range of sizes of fish landed this year: 3 - 40+" Super flies: Diawl Bach Black KlinkHammer Green Caddis Czech Nymph Beatis nymphs Pink Streamer Easily best season of my life, many good trips all over the place, toooo many fish caught to count. AMAZING times on the river with good buddies, worlds was a blast, I couldn't ask for anything more this year I fished everywhere i planned, and am looking forward to many cold days on the bow and crow this winter

Here a link to the results from nationals last week. Wish I could have been there with the fella's but school and money always seem to get in the way................... Here it is http://www.flyfishingcanada.net/past-nfcc-results.php

That news report is from 2000 two summers prior to the buyout of the greenland salmon fishery, in the summer of 2002 which goes untill this summer. ASF and bill are currently and have been negotiating what is going forward, there have been reports on this in ASF magazine. SInce 2000 and the 5 year agreement runs have come back pretty good. Yeah man no disrespect what so ever, just sheading some light on the fact that the futur and what i halp out with at asf is going to be bright and is working. here a little bit from the ASF website and the link http://asf-ca.sitepreview.ca/issues.php?id=14 The Greenland Conservation Agreement - The Moment to Act is Now This is the last year of the five-year conservation agreement with Greenland’s commercial fishermen’s organization (KNAPK) to suspend their salmon fishery. Now is an important time to act - to renew the agreement. Numbers of returning Atlantic salmon have increased since the Agreement was put in place. More larger salmon are returning. About 96% of the returning salmon are of Canadian origin, 4% of US origin. If fishermen in Greenland return to fishing, we will lose the benefits we’ve gained over the past four years. KNAPK and its partners have been developing alternative economic development programs. Freshwater conditions in both North America and southern Europe are better, more anglers are practicing live release, research is being conducted into at-sea mortality, and if the salmon are allowed to return from Greenland; then their overall chances of spawning are better than they have been in decades. The Government of Canada can help finance the agreement; now much of the funding comes from the US. Canada must take this special opportunity to safeguard the future of wild Atlantic salmon.

Most of the sea runs we were getting were around 17", some around 19", and a few that taped out just over 20", it was a great trip. I gotta admit fishin 17" sea runs with big bommer's definatly holdes a candle up to fishin big browns during a caddis hatch on the bow in my books! Not really sure about marimachi suffering, it had one of its best years recorded last yearsince they pulled the nets out of marimachi bay, with the hghest number of spring salmon being caught by sports at wilson's camp this spring. Honestly since ASF baught out the fishery in greenland the fishing has been terrific, the salmon have really reacted positivly in the marimachi since the by outof the greenland fishery, with more returning spawning fish. It is really exciting to see this many fish in the river again, at pond's salmon camp on the northwest marimachi they caught 32 salmon yesterday, all released as it is a catch-and-release camp. Anyways don't mean to come across as a know it all ***hole this is just what i have witnessed and heard, and i hear a few things living out here on the eastcoast. You can trust me my rootts are on the main marimachi river and out in the marimachi bay area!!!!

Well not quiet so early as you would think, the early run of females are usually in around early june, mid first or seconde week the big 20 pound plus hens come in, then around the last week of june first of july we see some mid range hens and males and a huge run of grilse come in. In fact this year the salmon are late. Was fishing in the upper marimachi the seconde week of june and got into some huge searun brookies, but out of seven of use only one salmon raised. We usually have landed two by the end of the third day, but non the whole week. Its been a late summer out here on the east coast, can't wait to get out to cowtown for the summer though!

I totally agree with you smitty, Don has done a great thing for one of the few and far between spring creeks of alberta. Steelhead, why be so negative, Don has shed light on a terrible thing that could have happened to a very pretty creek that many people enjoy, that could have been changed for the worst. Why shoot him down???? Just how i feel.....