greatbigdiddy

Hey guys check out this shortfilm where I head out to hunt trout on my own one evening. The river banks were alive with birds, bugs, flowers, deer and most importantly TROUT!!! When I first made this one I wasn't to sure how much I liked it and I never watched for a long time, however I did recently rewatch it and I really like some of the shots I captured, I especially like the opening title shot and some of the ending stills as well and even some of my stolen revamped cheesy lines are pretty cool LOL!!! Enjoy the show and let me know what you think of some of the things I captured on the river this nice summer evening. Cheers!! It looks like the good Lord has blessed us all today ... It's just he's been particularly good to me. (The Reverend Mclean)

as long as your total is 3 or less you should be good ... I don't use more than just the streamer hook plus the single stinger but I think one more would still be within the rules ... but I am not 100% sure on that ... however I almost always tie a stinger on now when using big hairy streamers ... I do believe it has tripled or maybe even quadrupled the strike to hookup ratio when using the big hairy stuff ... just last season Deano and I were out hunting bulls and he had the same bull on 3 times in a row and lost him every time ... I told him about tying on a stinger to improve the hook up he tried it and the 4th time he stuck it and got a nice bull ... now just like that bull Deano's hooked on the stinger too!!! I use my old beat up mayfly patterns that are coming apart its a good way to use them up ... everybody has a couple mangled up dries in there box somewhere. here is Deano landing those bulls after I told him to use the stinger. it's about the 4:50 mark. CHEERS!!!!

My daughter River stuffed my stocking this past Christmas with a 20 piece stonefly life cycle kit from Bass Pro. I'm not sure about any of these patterns but I am hoping they will bring me a few nice trout this summer so I can tell her that her special flies worked for me. Any thoughts on some of these patterns and opinions on whether they will fish well for me would be much appreciated. Cheers!! Diddy.

One night a couple years back I was fishing and camping out in the mountains at a nice backwoods campsite that I have stayed at many times over the last 30 years it is situated on the banks of a river right at a nice big rock ledge hole, a big beautiful deep hole with a powerful swift run in the middle and nice eddy's back to the rock ledge on each side of the river the nicest being the one on the far side "of course". I have always done fairly well at this spot over the years fishing the eddy on the close side also along the close side of the swift run and in the tailout always catching my share of 10-14 inch white fish the odd cutthroat and some nice bull trout up to 18 inches, back in the early 80's I was camping here with family and friends and one of the men landed a beautiful 23 inch bull trout and ever since then I always give this spot on the river some serious attention hoping that one day I would get my own big bully outta this great spot but it just never happened until this night a couple years back. On this particular evening after a campfire supper I let my wife "finish up" the dishes as I snuck out behind the tent to try my luck for some twilight trout things were going kinda slow with my only action being a missed opportunity at a smallish trout that went for my adams after a while with the sun down and darkness setting in I heard and then saw some swishing and swirling going on in the eddy on the far side of the river as I watched I could see some big fins and a big grey back swirling and swishing amongst the clusters of small flies on and above the surface this got me really excited. For the next half hour I tried to get my adams across that river and land it in that eddy but not being the longest of casters (by a longshot) my best attempts only got to the far side of the swift run and then ripped down the current on the one or two occasions I made it across to the eddy there was no time to mend before the current ripped my fly line down stream and my adams went skittering very unnaturally over the slow water where the big shark was feeding. Even with all this disturbance on the surface it never fazed that big fish from swishing and swallowing those surface bugs and those big fins and that big back just kept torturing me. By now it was pretty much dark out but there was some moonlight poking through the trees and giving the black of night a little visible light on the river. I thought about crossing but it is swift and deep both up and downstream for quite a ways so I was about to give up even though he was still over there I could here him and still make out his swishes with my eyes then I got an idea although I could not reach the far side with my fly rod I new in the past when I was a spin caster I had cast across to that eddy with spoons and spinners but this guy was feeding on flies on the surface and that's how I wanted to catch him so I went back to the campfire and grabbed my wifes spinning rod and tackle then tied my adams to the end of the mono and attached a large red and white bobber about 3 feet above the fly, I used the biggest bobber she had for its weight so that I could get it all the way across the river when I was ready to go the swishing had slowed down but he was still at it. It took me a couple tries before I finally landed it in the right spot and although the swift run still caught the mono I was able to hold the rod high and get some time with the bobber floating in the eddy I could not see my dry but I just kept my eye on the bobbers vicinity for a strike what happened next surprised me but it shouldn't have.... that big aggressive mountain shark ignored my adams and went violently after my big red and white bobber like 3 times I quickly reeled in my rig cut off my little mayfly and tied on the biggest ugliest thing I had in my box which was a great big chernoble ant and I decided I would give it "one last cast". I got the big rig across on my first attempt and that big ole bull hit that ant the second it hit the water and the fight was on when he got into that deep swift run It felt like I had a 15 pound trout on (well at least that is what I imagine a 15 pound trout would feel like) but once I muscled him to my side of the river the rest of the fight was quite easy and within a couple minutes I had in my hands my own 2 foot trout, I had accomplished something I had been wanting for more than 25 years and I managed to do it the best way with a dry fly well kind of. It was a great feeling. Thanks for taking the time to read my story my question for you guys is: Do you think I can count this as a fly fishing experience? and I would like to hear any of your stories about a makeshift success story for a great catch and even any stories about some of your "one last cast" memorable experiences or even just your thoughts and comments on my story thanks again for your time. Cheers!! Diddy. Here are a couple photos of my 2 foot friend.

Well it won't be hard to figure out where we shot this episode if you are familiar with the local bow river access points you will recognize it immediately. check out this film where we spend a nice evening after work out hunting for some bow river Rainbows ... push play and let me know what you have to say ..... I have not been back to this stretch post flood ... if you have please let me know how much the River has changed here.

last year I was out hunting cutts and it got really windy the pmd action stopped so I tried these little bugs out and landed quite a few throats during the high winds ... I have not used a lot of terrestrials but I'm gonna start using them more .... especially when the wind picks up.

Just so everyone is clear I was talking about the Burnt timber creek and North Burnt timber creek at the start of the thread not the Fallen timber creek.

I had a thought maybe the reasoning has to do with bad timing, I think I read an article maybe in AFG or maybe it was in Trout Highway but wherever it was it talked about the fact that a lot of the streams in the upper redder system received a good stocking of cuts in the late 80's or early 90S I think but there were no C&R regs in place at that time so the population never took off ... and dwindled away. Now that there are C&R regs in place has there been substantial stocking of cutts in this system or have they just hoped it would gain success on what little amounts of cuttys were still there?? does anyone have any info about this??

yeah Smitty that is a great book one of my faves but in that book Barry actually has the same notion that the james should be far better than it is. also the growing season for sure would make a difference but why the success in some cut streams even further north maybe the answer is bugs but I don't think so Barry also talks about deep wintering holes being of utmost importance maybe that's it.

You got it Mike the James is what I'm talking about here that place looks amazing but it just seems like it should fish so much better than it does ... now the james in its upper reaches and some tribs have been pretty good to me for brookies back in the day but the middle and lower reaches just feel like they should be chalked full of big browns and bulls and whiteys but I just can't find a lot of them however one day almost 15 years ago during a snowstorm in late JUNE the james did however deliver me a nice little surprise I was hiking and fishing a 5km stretch and was landing to my surprise 12-15 inch rainbows in every nice run yeah rainbows I guess they worked their way up from Dickson/glennifer dam. I thought the james was finally gonna become the river it looks like it should be chalked full of trout and Rainbows no less ... but alas that snowy day in June was the first and last time I got bows from the "JIMMY RIVER" and I still go back every few years and "HOPE" that this beautiful stream has finally reached it's potential only to leave asking WHY???

Just wondering if anyone has come across this type of stream in your explorations of this fine province. You know you leave your usual streams for a day of exploration not necessarily to an unheard of secret place but just a place you don't normally go to and when you arrive everything just looks so perfect lots of awesome holes runs and riffles all set out in a perfect way you just know it is going to be an amazing day filled with 18 inch trout of whatever variety but as you hike along casting switching flies switching methods maybe with a little success or maybe none at all but the farther you walk the better and better the stream looks but the big payoff just never comes and you sit there and wonder why ... why isn't this place as good as such and such place it should be there is no reason for it not to be. eventually you head home left wondering WHY? then a couple years later you find yourself in the area again and you convince yourself that you will try it again because you know it has to be a big trout mecca its just to perfect not to ... so you go and start hiking and the story repeats it self once again WHY? For me one of the streams like this is the Burnt timber creek, over the years I have fished this creek a handful of times I have had some minor success but I am always left wondering why this stream is not so much better than it is, it just oozes with what should be prime bulltrout/cutthroat water and it just seems like it should be so much more than it is ... I find this to be true of a lot of streams in the upper reddeer system. so beautiful so perfect looking they should be legendary trout streams, now don't get me wrong I have had some really good fishing in my life in this area but there just seems to be some streams here that should be unreal and at least for me they have not been. when I research and try to find out why they are not as good as some of our best cutthroat waters I read about and consider issues like the growing season down south is longer so that's why the fish are bigger and more abundant but my answer to that is a couple streams up in the north Saskatchewan system that are just as good for big plentiful cutts as those streams down south so why has the northern latitude not hindered them ... next I consider C&R regulations this might explain why these streams never reached top notch status in the 80s and 90s but I believe they have been C&R for a good portion of the 2000s but still no amazing cutthroat streams have developed here and once again I am left asking WHY?? What streams do you guys feel fall in this category for you?? Do any of you have any opinions or answers to my conundrum ?? All related thoughts and opinions appreciated ... thanks ... DIDDY.

Did anyone see the size of that there chicken!!!

Answer #1 - Why not? Answer #2 - Because I'm a FREAKEN ROCK STAR!!! I have an earring too. Answer #3 - That season it became a superstitious thing we painted my nails to represent the color of the fish we were after for luck. Answer #4 Answer #5 - All of the above. FlyTyer16 which one do you think is the right answer ? I'll give you a hint it is #5 ... thanks for noticing Cheers!!!

Check out one of our first flyfishing short films .... please excuse the sloppy release of a couple of these fish I assure you we here at The New Wave Angler are careful and gentle and we have the utmost respect for the fish and our fellow C&R fishermen ... but sometimes those buggers can be slippery and it is the goal of the NWA to make our films as realistic as possible we want to show what really happens out there on the water not just an edited down show of all the perfect releases and huge fish .... so that being said Enjoy the show ... click the link and let me know what you think. Cheers!! You get yourself 3 or 4 good pals ... why then you got yourself a tribe ... there ain't nothing stronger than that. (Billy The Kid)

I would agree taco ..... place seemed nuked when I was there in august but Gil said it seemed alot better by the end of the season when did you last go? .... if it takes 20 years to recover that would really suck ... I had finally just figured how..where and when to get some water to my self on this awesome stream.

Check out this short film from back in 2012 when Deano and I spent a few days on this beautiful cutt stream catching hundreds of beautiful slashers in some amazing little holes and runs and riffles and when we returned last summer after the floods it really was unrecognizable car sized boulders completely gone buried beneath feet of gravel I presume ... we caught a few fish but nowhere near the numbers or sizes we caught the previous summer ... I hope it recovers sooner rather than later ... what do you think?? anyway have a watch and enjoy the pre flood cutty extravaganza!!

Brookies!!! small but beautiful .... are there any good places to find some moving water brookies with some size in central or southern alberta??

last summer while deano and I were out searching for big browns in one of our favorite central Alberta brown trout streams we ran into an old toad a couple big browns and a hail storm accompanied by a tornado the following vid was the psychedelic result of these things all coming together at once.... one day in Kansas er I MEAN Alberta...theres no place like home...theres no place like home...theres no place like............. ****************************************************** "Many of us would probably be better fly fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

Check out this vid where we spend a couple days on one of southern Alberta's best Cutthroat streams and when Deano discovers that they are keyed into the PMD's they just couldn't get enough of our "little white flies" in the sun in the wind in the thunder and lightning they just kept feeding....Deano even managed to get 2 on the line at the same time....Enjoy this little adventure filled with surprises and some humorous moments.....let us know what you think... ************************************************ The sound of the river the splashing water and a hope that a fish will rise.

Check out this video where my daughter catches and releases her first Bow River Rainbow and provides her and her dad with a memory that will last a lifetime. Enjoy the video and let us know what you think. **************************************************************************************** Give someone a fish and they eat for a day....teach someone to catch and release a fish and you provide them with a lifetime of entertainment.

Have a look at this vid where Diddy, Deano and brother sparrow hook into some hungry Goldeye on a warm summer evening during the "witching hour" on a central Alberta stream. please comment below and let me know what you think of our little late night adventure in the moonlight.

Check out this vid where we spend an afternoon on a central Alberta stream catching some nice brookies and browns and then end the day with Deano getting into it with a nice big gorgeously colored brown that takes his white caddis off the surface of a deep corner pool...enjoy the vid and let us know what you think. ************************************************* Eventually all things merge into one.......

great clips Mr B thanks for posting I am sure you have both us fishermen and the trouts welfare in mind everytime you fish, you were caught up in the moment surprised at what was happening and when it was over "Jimmy" released the fish gently back to the water..all is good....when strange things happen on the stream we get excited and sometimes say and do some funny stuff I have even made my self look a fool on film in such moments as this video I will post below...I hope I don't get harshly judged or ridiculed for it but here we go.....oh and just before we start I think I saw Jimmy on that same stream about a half a km below the bridge in August we chatted he seemed like a nice trout respecting angler and told me how an hour before we met up that him or his pal just landed a 20 inch rainbow on a fat albert out of the whole I was fishing in....can you confirm if that was "Jimmy" or maybe it was another santa look a like LOL!!

Check out this vid we made over a few days this summer when we were out chasing trout on the Forestry Trunk Road....some great scenery and some beautiful trout.....enjoy and let me know what you think. ********************************************************************** Under the rocks there are the words.....some of the words are theirs....I am haunted by waters.