BigFoamy

Crickets

LOL, my boss chirps me all the time. Im old so I get as close as I can. I was not speaking to you it was a general comment to any and everyone!!

Our greens aren't super quick but have good speed, IMO we have really good greens. Before the little spot short and left of the hole cutter is the dragon fly from the previous pic After anyone who fly fished the bow in Fish Creek before 17 years ago will remember this tree, now its part of 5 and 13 green. I know "fisherman" have cut our fence numerous times in numerous spots along 2, 3, 4, 13 etc, Ive seen and heard about it. Please stop it, it costs us time and money, just walk around. Kids come down from the houses in Mckenzie lake and pillage and steal from our course on almost a nightly basis and that cant be stopped, their kids! If ur the one that brings the cutters with you and does it please make a better choice, its trespassing, your breaking the law and vandalizing our golf course. I personally could not cut a hole in a fence, to me its just wrong and being a law abiding citizen i wouldnt even consider it. Just saying.

we've got a coyote den between hole 5 and 6, looks they got their fill last night!

awesome stuff man!

that looks like fish food, nice tie!

A lot of these guys fish in their spare time. Atta go Freddie, gotta love a guy like him showing up and winning it! He'll have to come back and defend next year! That was an all star hall of fame line up this week at Canyon Meadows.

what a huge rainbow. nice shots man!!!

nice!!

it was a huge bee!!!

First two tries at this fly. IMO it looks cool and effective. My house flooded last week and I lost most of my dubbing, saved some but not all so i had to sub with brown. I also subbed the rib colour as I ddint have clear.

I water them my wife must have planted them a few years back because they just appeared, she doesnt garden or anything so i took it over, horticulture is my background. IMO lilies just grow regardless, I had worms last year on my day lilies and they where crap, some didn't open, the ones that did where half eaten anyways they come back every year, ive only got two stargazers but am happy that a new plant grew this season, hopefully next year we'll get a couple more. Ive only recently took to growing my own flowers the last two three seasons, I really enjoy it, cant wait till next year!

My Stargazers finally bloomed they stink but... Fennel Flower after bloom seed pod Bombus These are nearly perfect

I saw an otter on the bow this morning. it didnt seem to care that we where there at all.

good pick up, seems a little vague!

those are some real beauties there dude!!

I find size 12 dryfly hooks work the best.

Blurry pic but this is the money

I find at this stage of the season that you can fish this method, before you start to see the bugs and definitely during the hatch. As i stated earlier, with all the caddis present its hard not to throw one on and start casting to fish. That said, I quickly change over to the soft hackle to start getting the strikes as well as seeing the fish rise. Last night was out for a ride with the family, we stopped for a break, I didn't see any fish rising, threw 3 casts 1/4 downstream, upstream mend and swing it into the bank, SMASH!!! the wife was impressed, i really don't think she believes i actually catch fish in the river. Just like the other nights, watching guys throwing caddis and not getting anything, finally went over and asked the guy what he was using, "small dries" getting any hits? "nothing, not a thing" asked him if he had any soft hackles, his response was "what do you mean" so i gave him a couple and told him how i was fishing it. Kinda hope hes a member here and posts a story about how awesome his night was after lol This fly is why i love august and september. The fly matters as well, its a particular fly called the Pheasant Tail soft hackle with a red thread head.

love these flies last year I started fishing soft hackles such as the ones above. right now its whats working for me, a lot of the fish Im getting Im seeing first, with the exception of the odd surprise. 1 fly, floating line, 4x tippet swung back into the riffle and getting hammered. I still give the caddis a chance but theres been really no comparison to whats working. the lift at the end like doc said works amazing definitely give it a shot.

Sorry about your stuff man. Thieves are amongst the most awful people on earth!!! If you shoot me ur address i will send or drop off a care package for you! if your looking for a good replacement vest I have this one that you can have. Its been used 3 times and did cost quite a bit of money but i just never use it! I can tell from your posts that you could use a good vest, this ones got it all. it was the deluxe model when i bought years ago. it just hangs and collects dust. Its a cool looking vest, sorry about the blurry pics, was a quick reply before work.

a few chunks of cutty there!!

Nigella damascena, same as the white one, Fennel Flower or Love In A Mist or Devil In A Bush, a few common names

TY

Before After White Fennel Flower one from last night, it was dark and my kid was working the camera