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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... dammit! I have been trying to perfect my 9 foot casting abilities but I think there may be room to learn spey as well. My wife is goona hate you all!

Thx DryFly I will tie a few of those up as well. Do they work pretty good for you?

#14 and #16

Been having some incredible luck lately on the Bow using the following patterns . Anyone else using something similar?

I totally agree with Toolman. I find that these not-so-polite anglers are also fairly lazy and the further I walk the less I see them.

A few I like.

Anyone offended by your pictures of awesome trout needs a b-slap.

Great looking fly, and good video tutorial. Thanks for posting this.

The bumps where probably 4 or 5 millimeters high and around 1 centimeter in diameter. I saw several fish in there last year with the odd bump but this year it seem many of the smaller ones have them.

Hey, have a question for you pros out there. I was camping near the Dickson trout pond this weekend and managed to float the pond for a few hours. I noticed some strange bumps on quite a few small trout. They were simply bumps with no strange color or anything. Any idea what this could be? Some sort of parasite perhaps? The bumps usually only appeared on the smaller fish (under 10 inches) while the bigger ones seemed to be clean.

Wow I totally agree with this too.

I have never pumped a fish... lol pumped a fish... but totally agree with you on this one MTB.

Lol :lol:

If a bunch of responsible adults want to drink a few cold beer during the heatwave were having, be it at the river, thier back yard, or church, I say all the power to them!!

Tough lesson learned buddy. I'm glad to hear your son is ok. Don't beat yourself up about this too badly. I'm sure your a great father and accidents happen to the best of us. I also want to thank you for making this post. By coming here and admitting to something that I'm sure most would be too embarrassed to do just to warn the rest of us shows a lot of character. I have been considering taking my older son who is 9 to the bow this year. Who knows, your post may have saved his life too since just reading yours shook me up.

I know a guy from Olds who has family living in BC and visits them yearly while he fishes for salmon. He told me that the banks get extremely packed when hes there with guys almost rubbing shoulders at some of the best runs. Now heres the funny, yet terrible part. He brings his nephews along which are now 6 and 9 and gets them to continuously throw large lures with treble hooks straight up, and downstream intentionally snagging as many anglers lines as possible. He said 20 minutes of this and he has the bank to himself.

I thought this was funny: Frog Jumping

Theres always room for a colorful character such as yourself Rickr. This town is lucky to have you.

The GRIFFON is a helicopter similar to the Huey helicopter if I am not mistaken.

Them are some purty pictures. Great post!

Birchy you should be able to cast a light fly (like a dry) easier and farther than a nymph rig or a large streamer. I may be making an assumption here but If you started fly fishing with nymphs and streamers you are probably used to the weight of these heavier flies helping load your rod. Also the timing for heavier flies is different than with very light ones which also may take time to adjust to. Like others have said, make double sure you are using the right line weight and that you apply sufficient power forward after your line has straightening out behind you on your backward cast. Be careful not to apply too much power too fast on the forward cast. This will cause tailing loops which you don't want. The perfect forward cast starts out gradually but accelerates. Once all the line is moving forward, plenty of power can be applied. This post of yours seemed quite strange to me as I learned the opposite way casting only dries then moved to streamers and then nymphs. Maybe that's why I have the opposite problem. I have trouble making very short casts with a 6 weight. I can do it, I just have to make a few to start getting them right.

Stumbled across these awesome pictures of the bow river and other great Alberta and non-Alberta fishing destinations today. Is this gentleman a member of this forum? This guy has some serious photography skills in my humble opinion. Kevin Sproule's photo galleries

Just picked this Chevy Suburban and 28ft trailer up in Fort Mcmurray on Tuesday for my fishing excursions. Both are used but in amazing shape and I got a good deal on both. I just can't afford $100,000 for a new set atm .

Hey SJW... how about a PHP chat module for this site? It may be a great addition to an already great site.

Thats pretty funny. Saw it some time ago myself. He should have grabbed it by its horns and deer wrestled it!