SilverDoctor

They look like they would certainly stir interest in some bruisers.

Mac

Have a Gloomis Roaring River 11 foot Switch in 7 wt. that is nice. Have used it for Cutties & Salmon in the Salt, and lakers in Miniwanka. But most of the time I'll use my Meiser 2 handed Spey rods. Much smoother presentation.

In the wild

I taught for about 4 years, really enjoyed it, but when I last interviewed for another position they told me my Masters was too old and that I now needed Teaching certification also.

Excellent!!!

I assume you are talking about the Stonfo Kaiman Vice. Newer on the market than some of the other brands. Looks interesting and solid but I would really tie on one before I made a decision. It looks like a take off of the Regal, which has been around for years and it's easy to get parts or accessories if needed. Tied on a Regal for many years till someone "borrowed" the base after a fly tying demo, found it a comfy vice to tie on. That is part of what you have to look at. Tying comfort for your size of hands and style of tying. Lots of good brands out there on the market, I think part of it is what kind of use you think you will get out of it and what budget you have. How often you want to tie, an occasional hobbyist, frequent tier or commercial volumes and what you want to tie. Tiny dries or big streamers. All are factors and important to things to think about. There is no law that says you can't buy several brands. I have owned and tie on quite a few since the eary 60's. We're at a time when there is a great variety of product out there. You can spend a lot of money on them so a bunch of research is always good. But something I have seen is that there is no one vice that is the best for everyone. A brand that one person loves will be another person's hell. So take some time looking at a variety of them. Talk to a bunch of tiers and see what they use and get out to your local tying club and chat with tiers. I know this isn't an answer to your question but just an opinion.

Whitefish are also an indicator of a healthy fishery.

Officers to step up enforcement over May long weekend Posted: May 20, 2016 9:04 AM MT Last Updated: May 20, 2016 10:02 AM MT Here The province says it will step up its enforcement of careless ATV users in high-use areas this summer on public lands and in provincial parks. The goal is to keep riders from going off marked trails and tearing up and down streams, says Alberta Parks spokesman Tim Chamberlin. Alberta fire and OHV ban lifted for areas south of Lac La Biche Kananaskis bear sightings have official urging caution "We'll have fish and wildlife officers, our conservation officers in concert with some other law enforcement groups that will be making a concentrated effort to not only promote awareness but to enforce the rules and regulations," he said. Gary Clark, president of the Quad Squad — a recreational club in the Crowsnest Pass — says while more officers are welcome, the way offences are prosecuted needs to change. The province should first set specified penalties and then allow conservation officers to issue them like traffic tickets, he said. "Once that happened a few times it wouldn't take long for everybody to realize they shouldn't be going through the water," he said.

A slough of Salmonflies (Doc's Salmonflies)

CO's are stretched pretty thin, reported a guy churning up the Burnt Timber, It took more than a few follow-up calls to find out there where charges pending.

I grew up in a small town in BC in the 60's. The fruit industry was the mainstay of the economy. When the fruit ripened there where hoards of Starlings that descended on the cherries, peaches etc. At that time (it has changed) there was a bounty on these birds. You could get 5 cents for the legs, most of us kids had BB and Pellet guns and earned a pretty penny thinning out flocks. Along with wandering around orchards looking for birds, shooting in one’s yard was a normal thing. It kept our Mum’s working in the Packing houses processing fruit. We also had massive amounts of songbirds as they weren’t threatened by those predators. The problem with damaged fruit to the massive fruit industry was much lessened by little kids with their Red Ryders. I saw very few Magpies back then, just the very odd one that you couldn’t get anywhere near. Last year when I visited home to work around the Grandparents home, the number of Starlings was huge and there where lots of news stories about severe damage to the industry from ever increasing flocks of Magpies plus the starlings. Researchers were pouring Millions of dollars into future solutions. How times have changed. In those days us kids bicycled around with our fly rods and air guns. Kid things. Nobody I ever knew or heard about got hurt. Mind you most of the parents hunted and fished so we grew up in an environment of gun safety from a young age. Got my first BB gun at 8 and my 30-30 at 10. Firearms where not considered the horrific evil things the press seems to have turned them into. They where just tools just like a hammer, used to fill the freezer in the fall & keep household costs down. Now we could most likely never go back to those times as most Canadians have moved away from the land and our fish and game heritage. But just some of my experiences about life for you guys.

Thanks nice of you to say. Yes I mix all of my own dubbing, mostly from, Rabbit, Muskrat, Opossum, Squirrel etc. skins, with a small bit of synthetic added for sparkle. I use an old coffee grinder to do the mixing and control the density and color batches. In my family hunting in the fall was not only for food in the fridge but to restore the tying larder. These days I have to look for Buddies that hunt to get hides.

Very effective, the dubbing mix has a translucent look in the water the photo pushes the color a bit.

We had a real bad Sapro a few years back. Its a very nasty mold that attacks stressed or damaged fish. Lots of big Browns were lost. You could see a lot of them in the shallows, Like it was said mortality is high. Brown Trout were infected at higher rates in older males and the infections were more common in larger fish. It happens when males fight among each other for females or territory, by decreasing the protective mucous on the skin. Poor fish handling can also play a factor. I saw quite a number of fish that show hand and finger areas of mold. Avoid using cloth-mesh nets to land fish and minimize all handling if you care about the Trout. This warm weather and low water I believe will add to the outbreak this year. You can read a report here.

Nice colors

Wonderful for a great guy.

2 kinds of Stimmies both standard and bushy.

Always with good customers

Magpie traps work, used them one year when the numbers got too much. Left some dead magpies on the fence up high. They avoided my yard like the plague and so did the Crows. By the way, a great bait for the rap is empty fast food wrappers. Pellets, especially in .22cal seem hard for them to digest.

A Doz Elk Hair, part of an order going out. Back in the 70's I took a summer off University and traveled some of the legendary Trout streams in the US. That I had only read about. One of the tier's that I was blessed to sit down with was Al Troth creator of the Elk Hair Caddis. Since then I tie these in his style.

Don't car for it, sinks my dry fly too deep

Dry fly only Ouch, that is a really tough one, Bought and sold quite a few rods over the years. Wrestled with this one as I have a few sticks; I think you would also have to break it down to the water you are fishing. Dry fly rods for the large rivers like the Bow or Colombia or for smaller intimate streams. Then again Lakes provide another challenge. Couldn’t possibly be a single rod for me, and I’m leaving out a bunch. But these end up in my hand the most and I would not sell, only because they suite my style of casting. Bamboo Lee Wuff Classic Midge 6’ 5 wt. Montague Red Wing Light Trout 8'6" 5 wt. Leonard Baby Catskill 5' 2/2 Fiberglass Fenwick 7.5′ 5wt Feralite Phillipson 8.5′ 5/6wt Mountain Brook 3 wt. Berkley Parametric Curt Gowdy Signature 4 wt. Phillipson Challanger 7.5 ft 4 wt. Graphite Loop Opti Stream Loop AEG 5 wt

When I did my old trailer years ago, used an lectritions fish tape to pull wiring, Used standard crimps but siliconed the connections then taped to keep the corrosion down.

It can also mean some of the biggest browns close to shore.