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    A fond Farwell!

    in Off The Water - Not Fishing Related

    Posted

    Greetings all,
    I hope everyone had a great season so far. As for myself, my life is now going through change. I will be moving to British Columbia shortly where our family is originally from. Have promised my wife to return and we feel we need to help the family out there and retire. I have enjoyed this beautiful province, chasing trout in our wonderful streams and rivers. It has been fun doing demo fly tying over the years and tying for local shops and Fly Fishers. A great many of you I have fished with and called friends, I treasure all these relationships.

    I will be stepping down as Administrator of this forum. Being in BC will no longer allow me a local perspective. I wish you all shining waters full of rising trout for all your days.

    Old Doc
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    Weird things I've noticed while fly fishing

    in On The Water - Fishing Related

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    11 hours ago, BowLurker said:

    I was fishing below the 'moon pool' at the SHP side channel and just started my wade. I noticed a gentleman in a kayak upstream, maybe 200m away. I kept swinging soft hackles and stepping down. A fish hit my hackle really hard, but came off and I was stuck with a really difficult tangle, so I moved out of the lane and proceeded to try and get untangled.

    All of a sudden, this gentleman in the kayak was coming down the outflow from the moon pool and proceeded to yell 'HEY!!' at the top of his lungs right behind me. I was quite startled and instinctively jumped and yelled back 'What the f*** is the matter with you!?' He answered back with 'You're what's the matter! You guys are all wrecking it! This river is mine, nobody should be on my river...' blah blah blah as he drifted away from me. He was yelling at the top of his lungs and shaking his fist all the way down and around the corner back towards the main. This was weird, almost like he swapped his shopping cart for a kayak! :blink:

    Maybe he did.

    Hoot Owl restrictions in ES1

    in On The Water - Fishing Related

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    12 hours ago, BowLurker said:

    Just read the email notice I received over again, and all the reservoirs on the Bow River are also affected, so Ghost - Bearspaw - Glenmore - Bassano and the St. Mary's bodies of water are also under the TOD restrictions. Sheesh...we need a lot more manpower to cover all of those as well! 

    I noticed someone casting in the Bow on the way home from work, I parked and took a quick walk down to the angler. He was an older gentleman, that didn't need to buy a licence anymore, and didn't sign up/wasn't aware there were emails or forums that would notify him of shutdowns. He mentioned he had enough fishing/tying materials to last his life and hardly ever went into a fly shop anymore...so how do anglers such as this ever find out about closures?

    At any rate, I saw him walking along the bike path with his rod broken down, probably heading back to the car  -  turned out for the best on this one.

    That was a good deed.

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    River Etiquette

    in On The Water - Fishing Related

    Posted

    We have lost much of this over the years, As a young man the older guys would never think of bing so boorish on streams as I have seen nowadays. My fishing partner and I are careful and chat with others to establish the direction they're fishing and how we all approach the water. 

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