Villageidiot

Well considering the sheep (eventually) and highwood both flow into the bow and everyone pounds the piss out of those for bulls its no wonder theres some. Surprised that no one really tries to target them at the highwood confluence in early spring. Best chance to intercept fish over wintering before moving up for the late spring/summer. I would reckon there's more of them than most of you think.

Black vermiculations aren't the for sure tell tale sign of a brook trout. Night pictures aren't helping but fairly certain there are the faint vermiculations on the bottom of its dorsal. Vermiculations on its sides are clearly visible and very square tail give pretty good indication that its a brook trout.

Brook. Vermiculation's along its sides, square tail and overall shape. Bulls, dolly's and arctic char dont exhibit that shape or patterns.

Everyone on here better buck up and band together to get a ton of support for PCR. The AO forum is "vehemently" opposed to changing it. "Lets waste more of the stocking $ to continuously pump the lake full of walleye that do not reproduce, and continue to show poor growth rates" "theres too many trout lakes" Good luck.

Water tension is pretty critical in some spey casts. You can just roll cast a skagit head. Give it a go, sure it will go a fair distance, but nothing like sustained anchor casts. If you lose tension during the sweep, your cast falls apart. Pretty straight forward, but like bcube mentioned in some casts, you wont notice the difference. For most they may not truly notice the difference. I just know I can fish my intermediate heads 30grains lighter and notice no difference between my floating head which is nice, timing really doesn't need to be changed. The same head in the heavier grain window has more stick and definitely bogs down the rod during the sweep. Something I've noticed and also something "pros" in the industry have recommended, a quick google search can back this up Ed ward mentions lining down on line size, I'm sure you can find a few others.

For what its worth, I dont believe the intermediate heads are a marketing gimmick. These lines are great for winter steelheading and I'm sure would be great for winter trout swinging. Intermediate heads cut through surface currents and give you a much slower swing. These paired with Imow tips are deadly and they also help you out by not necessarily needing a very heavy tip to achieve depth. Where you used to use t-11 you can now use t-8 or poly leaders and achieve the same depth, all while swinging much slower, and much more pleasant to cast. I loved using an Ishort for bull trout this fall in BC. Slower swing definitely caught me more fish and I felt like it did a much better job imitating a slowly dying kokanee rolling/drifting across the bottom. Bulls, and big bulls especially like it right in their face for a long as possible. They don't tear across a pool like everyone thinks. Keep in mind, when lining up a skagit intermediate, its best to drop by about 30grains or the next size down from what you'd typically use for a skagit, or if you look at rio/airflo charts, choosing the head in the lower end of the grain window is a good bet. Because these lines sink, their water tension is increased and the result is a lighter head that will cast very well, and I'd argue further that a heavier floating head. Sometimes fish dont want a fly racing above their heads, and especially in cold water are more inclined to eat something not moving as quickly, you're in direct contact with that fly through the swing, there's no hinging/pivot from the floating head to tip.

Can I ask, who would make sure the idiots at the fire department dont come along and close every new access point over time? Why they wont allow access to 17th ave is silly, any actual reasoning behind it?

XL low profile here. Awesome on lakes, Anchor mount on front and back, 25lb pyramid off the front, 15lb pyramid off the back. 85lb thrust minn kota. Trolling sucks.

Sewage outflows are generally pretty warm.

Just another thing that could be placed into a simple angler training course that includes identification/handling/regulation/invasive species/risks course that could be mandatory for getting a fishing license. Similar to hunters education. Most people just wont know.

Excellent flies on the swing too for trout.

Did anyone happen to snag that postal code?

This is starting to sound like this guy has something sketchy going on outside of FF. 1. Starts a fraudulent guiding "business". 2. Gets himself to be a rep for company 3. actually puts forth the effort and half succeeds to establish a somewhat positive buzz in the FF community. Then massively dumps/sells all his gear from his rep gig, and takes guiding bookings without guiding days, followed by moving from AB to BC within a very short time span? Somethings up, based on the kijiji add, it seems like he's displayed his previous postal code, I would assume that should you contact the RCMP along with a similar story from vision backing up this guys validity, you may end up be standing on grounds to charge him for something. Theres no way he didn't have a falling out with vision if he's offloading gear like that.

Outbound short S6/I is a wicked streamer line. 30' type 6 head, int running line. Wicked from the boat.

I should also add, when he started his business, he was taking photography from myself, and others for use in his website. He quickly acted on removing said photography, but tried to justify his reasons for doing it with a "oh i just didn't have any pictures and i needed some for my business."