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Bow River, Sat Aug 20, 3km upstream of Mackinnon Flats: 63 F @ 7:30am, 65 F @ noon. What's the goal of the project / what are you planning to do with the data?

I see you have edited your original response, now including a link to an article from Feb 2018. LOL, nice! I like science, too. In fact, the science you provided was a study in which warm water temps did indeed increase c&r mortality. So I'm willing to leave the fish alone during the afternoons for the next couple of weeks if it might help them a little. As for this leading directly to worse restrictions, five-year closures, the extinction of c&r flyfishing, etc, etc -- who's inventing the bogeyman now?

This article basically says mortality for hooked fish does increase significantly in warm water conditions, but this is mitigated by the fact that fewer fish are hooked during warm water conditions. So, no worries, go ahead and fish because you're probably not going to catch anything (but if you do, bad news for the fish...)? Hardly a strong argument against the restrictions discussed here (which, btw, are now in effect starting 2 PM Saturday). The Global News link posted above by Walton confirms the reasoning for the closure extending to the high country upstream waters (rudedawg nailed it). No doubt there are other factors and activities at play here with worse impacts than c&r flyfishing. However, being reluctant to accept any restrictions to our part of it is not a good strategy to influence change on more important factors, IMO. I suspect those who are affected the most by the restrictions (shops, guides, shuttles, etc.) have probably figured this out. For the rest of us, not fishing past 2 PM for next couple of weeks is a pretty easy sacrifice!

Restrictions extend all the way to Bassano, so what are you talking about here?

Ummm... That news release is from 2015.