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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."

Sorry, I should've warned you a long time ago. There was a bit of facebook dealing from the get go, about him bad mouthing mr Jensen on his blog, when he had been given a bit of a reality check and then there was a hilariously unprofessional FB he sent me after I called himself and another "guide" he had on board when they started. Yes its great he did the clean ups and no doubt a somewhat positive effect on the cochrane FF community for a short time. However, this is just another want to be guide, taking business away from those who have properly set themselves up in the industry, many of them sponsors of this forum and all of this because of non-existent guiding regulations. Watch out for forbiddenh2o, upstream drift co, Rise2thefly, drift fly fishing guide service and others... just 4 of the latest start ups. Some of which offer BC trips too... interesting. Not meant to be slander. Just a bunch among the list of start ups with minimal business experience and minimal, if any prior guiding experience, and likely less time on the water than many of us. They just want to be a guide because its the cool thing to do. A good way to get an idea of who's legit and who isn't is invest the time to check out their social media feeds, instagram and facebook especially, if you're consistently seeing pictures of the same guys fishing/holding fish, its a sure sign of pseudo-guides, with no actual clientele. Another which may not be accurate, is just simply the quality of fish on their own personal pages. If they're taking hero shots of baby trouts... I would be very cautious. Just make sure you ask if they have insurance and if they have any references from previous trips, or maybe how many rod days they might have in BC.... Best advice is to book a guide through a fly shop. These guys are not worth your headache, and if any start up offers to guide you on BC waters... REPORT.

Pulling a license for too many hero shots? Really? You might want to delete social media if they bother you that much.

just recently, i was charged 87$ to have the assault xxx and 2 SUPs shipped to canada. Followed by getting hit with duty fees. 240 CAD when all said and done for the big purchase.

As much as i can vouch for scaddens. This is good advice. Especially if the price is right.

I'd encourage all of you to add in the business opportunities at access points to be considered to add your thoughts about a City of Calgary Shuttle service. I know this might not be favourable to the one shuttle service left at the moment. But since BRS shut down, and this increased amount of river access, the city will need additional shuttle service providers.

Yeah, you can't use a gas motor on many AB lakes. Nor can you on lakes in the national parks except minnewanka. So that doesn't solve the problem. But my 4hp Yammy on the back does put me up the bow nicely when i want to re-fish some banks.

Ray, curious about the battery bank setup. Pls Pm me.

winston BIIMX 490-4, Sage one 390-4

Sure is. You'd never think that 30lb of thrust up from a 55lb would make that much of a difference but it sure does.

I run the 85lb, 24v thrust traxxis on my XL low profile. Pushes awesome. Besides the fact you need 2 batteries. Perfect setup for tearing around or if you need to get up the k lakes or maligne.