BurningChrome

But did you still manage to land it with the broken rod?

This the one?

Please don't. Someone will feel the need to make a comment or something and the videos will be taken down before the authorities see it.

Yeah, take screenshots as well if possible, but the videos themselves will be the most damning thing. Hopefully the quads have plates on them so they're identifiable.

But the ones already breaking the law will continue to do so and ride in the closed areas. Look at it this way if we were talking about poachers: Unless the fishing crowd starts self-policing, they will lose access to many rivers. The ATV crowd already does self-police just as the fishing community does with poachers, but as we know that doesn't stop the problem and you'd only be punishing the folks who stay within the law. Hopefully the increased presence of enforcement will make people think twice.

A little news on the enforcement front. http://alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=380653EF8CA6C-D296-D4E6-2EB6CFB38FFC7D52

There are groups trying to do exactly this, but so far there has been very lukewarm response from ESRD. Some of the folks there (usually on the enforcement side) think it's great, but those higher up the chain could care less. In the meantime we've been using our own resources, grants, and volunteers to build bridges over streams but we just don't have enough to do this everywhere. Like you said, Ontario has a good community and so do lots of places in the states. Hopefully we can get there too. http://trails4tomorrow.ca/the5es.html

Hmm, this thread reminds me that I need to sell my Yeti cooler. I'll post it as soon as I double check on which size it is.

I found from fishing a fast rod that the problem isn't the presentation if you can cast the rod properly, but more with protecting light tippet on the hook set. I used to use a Method and getting a strike was never a problem, but when fishing 4x or 5x it was tougher not to have them break off on that first run after the hook set or a good head shake. Switched up to an Accel and haven't had a fish break me off since.

Haha, maybe. At least one person on every forum I'm on gets the reference.

I shoot Nikon full frame DSLR and Fuji mirrorless. The pictures in my first post in this thread are probably a mix of D600, D750, and D800. I'd say out of the three that the D750 is my favourite and the other two bodies will soon find their way to kijiji. In my post from earlier today the two pics of Lundbreck were shot on the D750 and the other three were on a Fuji X-T1. The Fuji kit is so lightweight while keeping incredible image quality that it's become my walkaround kit while I only shoot the D750 when I'm working out of the truck. If you're looking for a good camera kit, best thing to do is head over to the Camera Store and look around, tell them your price range and what types of things you'll be shooting and they'll point you in the right direction. I've always had awesome service from them and never got "upsold" to anything I didn't need. Here's some other randoms from the past few months. Mix of Fuji and Nikon, but I'll bet you that unless I tell you which is which you can't tell the difference.

Started carrying a good camera with me while I fish. A few randoms from Friday. No secret spots were harmed while taking these pictures. Was also down in the Pass yesterday and stopped at Lundbreck falls in the morning. Saw a couple guys rigging up across the river too.

Just look for river access points and start exploring from there. Boat launches and parks are a pretty safe bet. No offence, but people aren't really going to give out very specific spots on a forum.

To be fair he only said that an outfit was looking for a guide this summer, not necessarily that they were going to hire him. I will agree with the sentiments expressed so far. I have friends who are guides, I've been guided, I've rowed a boat (once), and I've been fly fishing for over 20 years. Guiding is not as easy as it sounds and can't really be learned or taught in just a month or two.

This is key. I think a lot of people carry way more gear than they need and it ends up weighing us down. You don't need to be carrying two fly boxes full of hoppers right now, and if you're fishing dries you don't need all those sink tips in your bag. My problem was that I'd forget something at home and not realize until I got to the river. Now I have a backpack that all my stuff fits in and when I get to the river I transfer what I know I'll need into my sling. That way worst case I can head back to my vehicle and grab something I forgot.

Slingpacks are my preference too, but I also pack as light as I can get away with for the day. In the summer I wear cargo shorts and keep fly boxes in those pockets and wear a smaller sling pack. Patagonia Stormfront and Stealth Atom are what I've been using for the past few years. I've always found that with fanny packs I have to tighten them a lot to keep them from falling down and that ends up being too tight to swing them around to the front easily.

FRS / GMRS radios like you probably have are line of sight and usually good up to 10km in absolutely ideal conditions ie. no interference. When we use them in the backcountry sometimes they aren't even good past 50 metres if there are a lot of trees.

2015 licenses are available for purchase on albertarelm now too.

Was posted here already: http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?showtopic=22221

This has already been happening. The Harper regime has been calling Keystone XL and Northern Gateway protesters "extremists", "radicals", "threats to national security", and "terrorists" for a couple years now.

Nah, it still isn't there yet. I honestly can't remember if it only gets posted after March 31.

You can also view the regulations online if you don't want to download the pdf. http://www.albertaregulations.ca/fishingregs/

Dixon is obviously the better brand. Alliance causes a harmonic that puts the fish down. I was pretty upset the guy in the video didn't start doing this...

I like to use my spey rod for small dries on Stauffer.