BurningChrome

Logs, out of control boats, rabid beavers, etc. can take you out in the summer too.

I think this Davie McPhail ant gives you the resin look but still floats well. Should be easy enough to tie it in black or more of a cinnamon colour too.

How about this? Includes all Alberta sport fish. http://www.albertaregulations.ca/pdfs/fishing-regs/Sport-Fish-Identification.pdf

I have Commando heads but never tried them out of the boat. Seems a lot easier to just use a short head line like an Outbound or Sonar where you can strip it right back and recast.

Still on course afaik.

A couple sessions about the NCNT recovery program... Calgary: https://albertawilderness.ca/product/north-central-native-trout-recovery-program-information-session-calgary/ Edmonton: https://albertawilderness.ca/product/north-central-native-trout-recovery-program-information-session-edmonton/

The organizers own this forum...

Looks a lot like a site that scrapes other websites for content and presents it as its own for traffic. I'd take anything posted there with a grain of salt until the organizers post something. Right now the expo website 404s and the Facebook page was removed.

Like the title says... https://www.alberta.ca/report-poacher.aspx

I remember that year. Some of the shops were running out of parachute Adams before runoff hit, so everyone had their dry boxes stocked up for the next spring and there was no top action.

Another survey as part of the North Central Native Trout recovery, but this one is specifically for the Ram. https://talkaep.alberta.ca/north-central-native-trout-recovery/survey_tools/ram-river-public-survey

It's a dry fly. 4wt should be fine.

Just put a rock or log in front of a tire and drive up on it until I'm level.

You don't have to take your bedding out of the tent when you pack it up, which is also a bonus if you have to set up camp in the rain. It takes me 5-10 minutes to fully set up or take down by myself. There are lots of benefits over a regular tent, like not having to find flat ground, no worries about waking up in a puddle, don't have issues with cold ground, one less thing to pack inside your vehicle. There are tradeoffs and they aren't anyone's cup of tea, but I'll never go back to a ground tent at this point.

I've had one for 5 years. It's mounted on a BajaRack on my 4Runner, but there are lots of less expensive options like Yakima crossbars.

Depends on who owns the rights to the book since he passed away.

It's a good book but it certainly isn't required to find fish on the eastern slopes. The McLennan book should have all the hatch charts and everything else you need. What do you consider a long hike and bush bashing? 4wd is nice to have but not required.

The spammers seem to like the new format...

Nothing wrong with stripping your fly in with the two-hander. I'll cast, mend, then strip on one cast then on the next I'll mend, step step, swing through to the dangle and then strip.

If you're only using them on a single water body or drainage it's not going to be much of an issue. If you're the type who might fish the Elk one day, then the Oldman the next don't use felt and clean your gear. Whirling disease isn't the only thing to worry about either. The vibrams take a little getting used to. I'm pretty used to them and even I noticed that the Bow has more slime or whatever on the rocks this year than usual so I grabbed a few studs and put them in.

I've been fishing an OPST for a long time and they're definitely great shooting heads for single-hand rods and short switches. But, I think it's a lot easier to learn the casts on a two-handed rod first then apply that knowledge to the single-handed rod. I learned to single-hand spey using a rod with a fighting butt and any time I was unsure of the casting motion I'd put my left hand on that as though it were the lower handle of a two-handed rod. So if the OP wants to do some steelheading in NW BC the 7wt two-handed rod is ideal and he can use that to learn the casts, then later get the OPST head for a single-handed rod on the Bow. Personally, there are some days I like to go out with the micro spey on the Bow and others where I take my 9'6 7wt with an OPST setup on one reel and indicator line on another.

What are you talking about? I use my spey rod to chuck tricos on Stauffer all the time! I agree with what Bron and bcubed have already said. My suggestion would be if you're going to start with one rod, go with a 7 or 8 in 12'6 to 13'6 neighbourhood. It'll be good for steelhead and you can still use it on the Bow but it'll still be a little overkill. Then if you decide you like it enough you can branch out and get a smaller 4 or 5 for the Bow and possibly a larger 8 or 9 for chinooks and atlantics (full disclosure: I have never fished for atlantics but I suspect you'd want a long rod with floating line for them). I've got my 12'6 7wt TCX for steel, a little 5wt Winston Micro Spey for the Bow, and a 14'3 9wt Z-Axis for chinooks. I think that gives me everything I need. Another thing to keep in mind that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet. Spey casting is not entirely about distance, contrary to popular belief. It's about keeping your fly in the water longer because you aren't doing a ton of false casting. You don't need to be bombing 90 foot casts to catch fish, even steelheading.

Does the rubbing alcohol trick only work on Gore-Tex? I'm guessing that's what you were getting at.

Went out for what was probably my last camping trip of the year. Wasn't as quiet as it was during the OHV ban but the beautiful fall scenery helped make up for it. First campfire in months! Luckily I still remembered how to split wood and light a match. Found some fish. This guy broke someone off before I got him. If you want to reclaim your fly, sorry but it slipped out of my fingers and floated away. Ciao! The clouds kept threatening all weekend but other than a shower on Sunday morning it stayed dry.

Fish more so they don't dry out to begin with... I've also got a pair of Patagonia Ultralights and they're the same. To be honest, I always thought it happened with every wading boot and that's why Korkers made those rear entry ones.