snuffy

"If you can't see your fly it's because you can't cast!" That guy is hilarious, obviously doesn't sugar coat things. Great shop if you're in the area

It's recently come to my attention that stripping line from the reel while casting is a bad habit, because I've managed to put line-shredding grooves in several of my reels. I blame learning in Cypress Hills. Are there any brands that are more or less susceptible to this damage?

"foot care is of the UTMOST importance" Yes it is. I work in a hospital lab and if I had a nickel for every toe and foot dropped off in the middle of the night, I'd be rich. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis, but glad to see you're thinking proactively.

This might be it: https://www.flyfishfood.com/products/spanflex

Brown

Seems like I'm out of date and this stuff isn't available anymore. Anyone have a substitute? I'm thinking another company is probably selling the same thing with a different name.

I was out last week. Livingstone was 48 at 0930 and 55 at 1500 on the 18th. Everything else I measured was similar. The restrictions on the Bow make sense, and they're probably a day late and a dollar short on the St Mary's, but taking a single datum from the lower Bow and extrapolating it to the entire eastern slopes is absurd. That said, they got moody once the heat of the day really kicked in.

Me too - particularly this one day with my wife when the rain brought out the drakes, made the fish stupid and kept all the other fishermen at home. I just didn't tell anybody about it!

I think the sport's growing popularity pretty much killed the fishing reports. No one wants to talk about Frenchman's creek.

Back in the day when I was perpetually flat broke, I had a lot of experience with ultralight waders - all of it grim. They fall apart so fast as to be a false economy. The corollary to that is that they will fall apart in the middle of the trip you've been looking forward to all year. Save yourself the frustration.

Aluminium makes a big difference.

Every campground in the mountains is going bye bye?

112s is ridiculous. It has to be a pretty special fish to warrant a shot at all and even then, you keep it in the net, lift it and get it away. It shouldn't take more than 10.

I've never heard of it winterkilling, but ever since they Rotenoned it a decade or so ago it's been nothing but tiny trout and huge suckers. I think the idea is that the Tigers will eat the later.

Once upon a time, I was very excited about Korkers because of the ease of swapping soles. In the end neither of my pairs lasted long enough to be resoled and broken Boas led to some long and awkward walks out of the bush. I've moved on to the Patagonia River Tractors, which have incredible all around traction but are quite heavy, which gets old because most of my fishing is long walk and wades. My wife reports that her Vibram Simms boots that I maxed out the Alumabite cleats on have, like the River Tractors, much better traction than felt. That soft aluminium is magic. I really want to get my hands on the new Simms Ultralights with Alumabite cleats. Have any Calgarians noticed them in stores? I was hoping to pick up a pair when I'm up there at the end of the month.