Dangus
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1 hour ago, DonAndersen said:
I’ve seen the missing gill plates on Staffer for well over 20 years.
WD kills <10” fish.
Don
Is this an argument against wd causing the foreheady fish?
Missing gill plates can be due other things as well. High Selenium levels is one that comes to mind. Another might be rapalas.
Also, isn’t it thought it’s a possibility WD has been here for 20 years?
As far as I know, mortality rate of those infected, can be up to 90 percent. Thus, some fish could show some non-lethal skeletal abnormalities.
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Lots of you have probably caught or at least seen pictures of the weird foreheads some of the fish on the bow have.
whirling disease?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxkTuKJhrgF/?igshid=izg5z3ftmbwz
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Great Lakes steel?
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I think it means you need to put that Allen reel away and have this one lined up. Haha
only thing I find is that they’re pretty light which doesn’t balance things well. I put lead core under the backing and it improved things quite a bit on the rods I use them with. Just do it backwards first. Line->backing->leadcore until balanced adequately and spool filled to ideal height and then just reverse. Probably obvious for most, but this dumbass did it the hard way a few times.
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19 hours ago, fishpro said:
It's hard to say how much a guide certification helps. I once had a guide in BC, who was certified, tell me there were native west slope brook trout in a stream by Fernie. He was completely serious.
Partly right. It is a brook trout on the west slopes... ha
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Sounds/looks more like he’s making a protest regarding the hoops you need to jump through to guide in BC.
Maybe he’d fare better Here in 1834 Alberta where every numpty with a flashy glass boat is a guide.
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I’ve put three 200lb guys and two dogs with cooler and gear in my 10 foot spratley. Tight but still fishable. I’m sure the 12 is huge.
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48 minutes ago, DonAndersen said:
Tried at Phylis Lake and was a complete failure. In order for fish to grow large enough to be meat eaters, there has to be food. Perch ate it all.
The big browns in Phyllis get to 10”.
Don
Was going to say that. Guess they could just make these spots brood stock dumps and slowly build it up. Browns can live well over 10 years. Just need time and to avoid rock shampoo.
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Best just to call Mel. He’s in the know. I guess it was open Saturday. Was going to launch the boat until we saw 10 trailers in the lot and 4 boats being launched.
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Simms black fleece glove. I Put it on a very visible branch on the east side of the river almost halfway between the last island below 130 and the bottom end of the mallard point side channel. If you think it’s yours message me and I can be more specific.
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19 hours ago, FishnChips said:
I fished in BC last year for Rainbows in a lake that had been illegally stocked with Largemouth Bass. For 2018, on that waterbody, the catch and retain limit for Bass was 8 per person.
Those bloody Bass do not belong in that lake, and this year, 2019, for that same lake, there is no limit on Bass. The province is going to allow natural human predation clear that lake (in theory anyway). At least there is tacit recognition by the province of BC that those fish do not belong.
I am purely a catch and release type in fresh waters. However, I did kill a Bass and fed it to a beautiful bald eagle perched nearby.
With bass being a classified as a gamefish in BC, that act falls under the “it is unlawful to...waste the fish you catch” category. Just sayin take a look over your shoulder before doing that again.
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As Dan alludes, no way to enforce what your “target” species is unless you’ve retained something. Furthermore, in order for rule to be enforced, perpetrator needs to be caught red handed—making it even less likely to be busted.
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Access as in non-retention. I probably could have chosen better wording.
As for not getting caught, that’s what I’m saying. You’re never going to get caught illegally stocking something. So the only way to disincentivize the act is to make it pointless. “As soon as my illegally stocked perch are established and fishable, they will make it non-retention/close the lake/kill the lake, so what’s the point of bothering to do so?”
IMO non-retention does nothing because if these guys are willing to illegally stock perch, they are also pretty likely to “poach” perch. They are making rules for themselves.
closing a lake makes it much more observable someone is breaking the rules.
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52 minutes ago, Smitty said:
Right. Exactly my point. We've tried different policies, none seem to work. So you try something different. I'm all for the poison, except (a) that the government won't ante up the funds and (b) they don't have the political stomach.
I have more practical viewpoint on this (sorry, but it is more practical): since no one has cited any evidence that a zero perch retention has done anything, why not try the opposite? Forget the "philosphy" of it rewarding the idiots, isn't the bottom line that we want better trout fisheries? So, short of rotenone, isn't the best way to do that is to reduce perch numbers? Additionally, you could turn off aerators, hope for a complete and total winterkill? I'm saying we've stuck to the principle of "let's not reward the idiots". Great. Awesome. And it's got us a whole lotta nothing except perch infested lakes where (until the regs changed back this year), I wasn't allowed to kill the little buggers. So... do you draw your sword on a hill of principles and rant about it....or do something practical?
We're all frustrated. Again, if anyone has some actual evidence to support the policy of zero retention perch, great. I suspect it is non-existent. So...back to chasing our tails.
Maybe a new gov't will do something... (yeah right). So sure, let's go for the poison. That is the practical solution actually: if Alberta could even come close to replicating the Manitoba parkland experience, like Don says, anglers will vote with their feet. The increased angler related tourism revenue could help offset the costs of poison.
Seriously, what else is there to do? You gotta kill the perch or kill the lake. Having a zero limit makes no sense in lakes already infested.Of course it makes sense to limit access To someone’s illegal stocking fishery. That’s the ONLY way to shift cost/benefit of them taking the risk to transplant perch in the first place. They’re never going to get caught in the act.
Angling is never going to knock down perch populations, especially with a limit. Who’s the guy here always on perch patrol on sundance lake? How’s that worked for them? As far as I last read, there’s still a *hit ton of them.
Fisheries needs to take a hardline approach on this. That’s the only way to get through to people. As soon as foreign species identified, body is closed until it can be rectified. Due to cost constraints, pick a handful of “protected” lakes and put the resources there.
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any Chance of gill netting the perch? Generally smaller than most stockers aren’t they?
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26 minutes ago, burton420 said:
Rushton brown , has a gold magnet on it,lost at Deerfoot south last fall probably floated downstream over the winter
No sorry but I’ll keep my eyes open.
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On 3/8/2019 at 8:54 AM, stegor said:
Have to check the make when i go home, but i lost a hardwood landing net with a white/translucent rubber net bag. Lost near Mallard Point so would be somewhere downstream of there.
No but I talked with a couple guys on Monday who said they found a net in that vicinity and asked if it was mine. Not sure what they did with it.good luck
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4 hours ago, northfork said:
Yup - in my experience best bang for your buck for sure, and if someone has a method to re-sole themselves then that's serious life out of a pair of boots. I can totally see a set of these lasting 4 or 5 soles or more if you look after them. I remember getting quotes to get some resoled and it was crazy. Really interested to see.
I want to say I've seen them at the fishin hole too but don't quote me. I have yet to be convinced on switching to vibram with the cleats, I totally understand it's supposed to be better for the rivers but I can't see vibram and cleats being at best comparable to felt. I still use felt and go through a thorough "decontamination" when switching rivers.
And as for korkers, they're junk. I bought a pair of them a while back that had the interchangeable felt and vibram soles. Genius idea and easy to "re-sole" but the stitching and seams sure didn't hold up. Not comfortable at all either.
Glad to hear mostly good reviews on the G3s, I was a little worried they wouldn't be as good as the freestones.
X2 on the korkers. Had some metalheads a few years back and they didn’t even last a single summer. They felt flimsy and didn’t offer much support.
With the old G3’s the problem was shrinkage of the nubuck material. I still ended up wearing a hole through it at the hinge point by the toes within 3ish seasons on both pairs I’ve owned. Felt was almost done by then anyways. I like the look of the all synthetic version they have now and I’ll probably give those a go next year.
Last summer I got a pair of Simms headwaters with vibram For super cheap and put some Simms studs in them. Vibram is Definitely better for hiking but can be greasy on bow river snot—but better than I thought it would be. Only issue I’m having with them after 3/4 season is the soft cloth-like material on the sides is fraying and some of the triple stitching looks like it’s coming out. That being said, they weren’t full time use as I still cram into my old g3 felts for the boat.
I don’t have an issue getting 3 seasons out of boots, as I like the feel of new ones and I do beat the piss out of them... don’t get me started on waders.
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Ya not too excited about another predator on the bow
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Chrome/gunmetal red or black rib with black or white bead is pretty much the only chironomid you *really* need #10-16 covers most scenarios.
Im sure mr Anderson will have something to say/about the bead. Ha
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5 hours ago, DonAndersen said:
Otters are an invasive species much like Asian Carp.
However, they are “cute”.
Disney strikes again.
Don
It would Seem like the interwebs disagrees. Even an article here from your neck of the woods.
https://www.producer.com/2013/09/experts-tally-river-otter-population/
seems like this debate happened before? Maybe I’m missing something
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Them aerators stay running this winter?
Anchor System for 14' Aluminum Boat
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Do you think Spinning around and losing the depth at where your fly is fishing (esp bobber fishing) is going to cost you more fish than how many you get hung up on a second anchor rope?