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sweet... within walking distance of my office! Looks like Ill have a place to walk to during my lunch breaks.

The pike handling was better than 99% of the guys I have seen growing up. I think you guys will be just fine with your cradle.

Poor management of anything that harms our wildlife, or captured wildlife is unacceptable. Have you called Bass Pro about this?

Hehe. I'm not hatin, just not sure how telling them that cronies were working (and maybe what size/color) would help them select a better spinner or spoon. I used to spin fish for trout too when I was a kid so I try to keep an open mind and be as helpful as possible as long as I don't see bait, and/or a fish bonker in their possession LOL. <-- this is my riding my high horse.

Hey guys, Thought it would be a great idea to get a May long weekend story post rolling to see how everyone's fly fishing expeditions worked out. For me, the weekend was about having fun with the family, fly fishing some local waters, and of course camping. I pulled my trailer out on Wednesday, and was lucky enough to get out and fish 3 bodies of water while I was there. The first mornings fishing was cold, wet and windy but I was able to land 4 or so decent bows before I packed up and left for camp shivering like a mad man. Hit a different lake the next morning and was alone on the water until 11 which was very peaceful. Had many great strikes and fish fights on leaches, cronies, and even a couple of dries. All caught were between 16 and 18 with just one hitting the 20 inch mark. The only downside to the morning was a pair of fearless loons that literally swim around you waiting to steal fish off your line. Shouting seemed to have little effect. On the third day I was out early on the water again (life is good!). And I knew exactly where I wanted to be on the lake that morning. On the way there I picked up an absolutely huge fat bow. Was just 22 inches in length but was fat as hell (like 6.5 inches from back to belly and 4 inches thick). Put up a long drawn out fight never breaking the surface for about 10 minutes at which time i landed him. Upon arriving at my desired location I noticed I wasn't alone after all! There were 2 Blue Herons, and 4 Loons. This was a good sign IMO. I picked up 8 bows in a 100 yard stretch that were between 17 - 20 inches and lost another 6 or so. I knew I had found the fish and was stoked! I cruised the area a couple of times stopping to cast close to structure and was very pleased to see the fish were happy to cooperate. So after another 8 or 10 more fish I noticed quite a bit of surface action starting to take place, and that the takes were starting to slow a bit. I quickly tied on a dry that looked like the midges that were coming off and started to cast to risers. To my surprise they were not that interested only getting a couple to take the fly dragging it sub-surface once it sank. The light went off! I thought, ya know, they may be more interested in the cronies than taking them off the top. This is when the fun began. I selected a pattern I put together using goose biots, yarn, ostrich hurl and pheasant tail and put it 18 inches below a small balsa indicator. Threw it out and boom, fish on within 30 seconds! This lasted for 4 hours straight! It was incredible, and the most fun I have ever had still water fishing. I have had really good days before, on cronies and other flies but never this good, and never this fast on this particular body of water. I felt like a rockstar when a half dozen or so other water craft rolled up and between the works caught 2 over several hours. I felt a little selfish but what could I do, and besides no one actually asked me what I was using (was surprised). I was expecting someone to ask but no one did. About half of the guys I saw were spincasters so it wouldn't have helped them out anyway. Anyway, it was a great weekend, and I wont soon forget it. Lets here your stories!

Glad to see those flies did you some good. That mini leach pattern has been working for me quite well this spring. Let me know if you need any more flies. I tie 10 times more than I could ever fish.

LOL... after watching this video I wanted to go find my old black motley crue shirts and shout at the devil!

Way to go! Lots more to come!

Some beauties there. Thanks for posting.

Happy B-day MTB! Hope you have had some time to wet a few lines this spring.

Welcome Ward. You cant go wrong with a walk & wade with Jim. Seriously, you will be a better fishermen before the day is through.

Welcome Roast! Those fish will come... stick in there.

Excellent work dude! Patiently awaiting my first one myself.

Bass pro is pretty cool to see but I have to admit their fly shop is pretty weak. If I need fly fishing equipment for tying or other, I will still frequent the other local shops.

Lake Louise Baby!

This is enough reason for me to hang up my felt boots. I never liked felt anyway.. they never seemed to help me from slipping around in the bow.

Good one Don! LOL 6 boxes of different sizes here. I feel naked without them.

My opinion is simple. Anyone who regularly watches Fox news, or takes anything they have to say as actual fact is not worth my time worrying about what they think about Canada. Oh, and I wouldn't doubt if Stephen Harper watches Fox new.

Many of us are capable of creating websites with that sort of functionality. It just takes big bucks and lots of time! Lol.

Thanks for the post Teck, I'm goona tie a few as well.

Happy b-day Rick!

Seriously, you should do a fly fishing show for WFN. In my opinion the ones they already show are poorly done, especially the new fly fisher. Your videos continue to improve and I would go as far as saying they are already better than the ones you see on the tube. Think about it, you have an amazing canvas to work with here in Alberta, you have natural talent in front of the camera and behind a fly rod. You also have a unique perspective and personality that would be hugely popular. The only thing I would like to see more of would be much more technique footage (casting, reading water, fly selection) with commentary. All of the shows out there besides Oliver Edwards are about 98% dragging fish to the shores which is about as boring as watching hicks, wearing what looks like NASCAR garb, drag bass to their boats every 30 seconds Common dude, it's about time you represent!

Send Kaveman a pm. He just finished working on a project like this.

I have been checked 3 times in 24 years and not in the last 11 years. It's unfortunate that most Canadians don't find conservation important enought to make it a priority in their lives . We are surounded by so much natural beauty here that I think we just take it all for granted.

Just goes to show you that he was destined for the big house no matter what. lets hope he doesn't get any special prison rights or protective custody. I would pay good money to see him roll into a federal penitentiary carrying his crap to his cell while he gets the toilet paper welcome and his first look at some of his new boyfriends.