Dangus

Muha, I mean the fb page. I noticed he changed the date to sept 30 now ha

Did this degenerate post to Alberta flyfishing a few times?

It is conservation...its bad for the shoreline!

Any pics?

To daves credit, they wrote a nice piece about fish handling a few days ago.

Tgo bringing your dog for a walk there is banned and only certain trails are opened for walking. Any side channels within the sanctuary are closed for fishing. My argument is that if people are walking around a sanctuary "viewing" birds, how is my presence on the side of the river any more intrusive? Especially if accessing it from the trail that comes up from under the bridge at Ogden. Anyways, I was just curious about new water. Fishing isn't/can't be any worse than above the weir. Cheers B

So how would a few mature pike not solve this problem? Native..in the bow... ravenous That or they just rotenone them once a year. I see the pike situation working out like the first one in the video. "Parents releasing Fred once he got too big for the tank."

Aerators run over winter in those things?

I know it's been said, but I wonder if a few pike would be the way to go?

Are you saying it's the users of the bird sanctuary that are intolerant of anglers? I'm lost...

Does your philosophy apply to the birdwatchers and people that walk its pathways?

I know the regs say the main channel is exempt from the sanctuary no fishing, but does that mean you can't access the shore from that area?

Sorry, I use the word "ridicule" as a bit of hyperbole. I should have said "tease" or "roll my eyes at."

Well, while that is true on older style reels, I doubt it's really necessary with large arbors. Nor could you fit that much standard backing on them. I bet I have 30 yards on one of my LA reels while I probably have 75 on my hardys. I feel that it is more of an old school way of doing things as lines nowadays have little memory relatively. I remember my old Cortland type 6 full sink used to look like a slinky when I peeled it off the reel in the spring. After that got eaten by my motor, I bought a new rio and it's night and day. The thing is, The point of their argument is not that they need it for that reason, it's for running fish and will even go as far as using gel spun so they can fit more on.

I don't think they look at it as you as benefiting, they look at you as a means to control it. I'm not sure why they don't take a hardline on cases like that. If people knew they'd just nuke any lake with introduced species, maybe they'd stop. Then again, I don't think the asshats doing the illegal stocking are capable of thinking that far ahead.

Ha yeah other than steelhead and salmon there are only a few fish I can think of that I've legit had any decent distance into the backing. (Which is why I tend to ridicule those who are adamant they need 200 yards of backing or say their trout was making 100 yard runs.) Funny enough, there was One 17" bow river bow that was super hot. I called "big fish" as it peeled backing...and then ate my words. (At least it Wasn't a tail hook ha)

Only fish I've kept in the last 20 years was for a neighbor who requested one (from a lake in the east kootenays). I get far more satisfaction from watching watching a fish swim away; preferably as in pristine as when I caught it. Which means down go the barbs on anything smaller than 14 (I don't think microbarbs on those tiny hooks do much damage.)

I think having those fish that aren't gassed but stay still for photos are from calm, gentle Handling. Most fish I revive take less than a minute and I don't let go of the tail until they really buck me off. Nothing worse than seeing a fish swim off and then flip over.

Obviously not from today ha Looks like that's just below the peace bridge, eh?

There are two guys running two separate shows now as far as I know. I was approached by a guy at glenmore and handed a card. Can't recall his name...Len maybe? Then Mel is the other cat.

Ya maybe that's another reason that I thought it was sue Higgins-seems to have the right space for it. In carburn, I'm guessing they'd just cut down by the parking lot to the tiny side channel by the dog leg turn in the river above the dark park? Otherwise there's a road going through the park. Then again, a launch on an outside bend seems like it would get hammered in a flood.

Whoops I must've had a stroke when I saw carburn.

Anyone know if you will be able to bypass the weir?

One concern I have, that I'll mention in the feedback, is how busy sue Higgins is. Hard to find parking on a good day.

I don't know him personally. It's a public production. Would it be different if I was questioning the Calgary sun? It's obviously not unnoticed by others as people have made jabs about it on the Alberta flyfishing page. Don't get me wrong, I mean no disrespect to the Jensens. They say/do so many great things about/for our fisheries and then post meatheads gill gripping bulls. Maybe it's to not seem so elitist and to appeal to the masses. Maybe they don't feel that kinda stuff is the biggest threat to fisheries. Fair enough. Just sends a mixed message is all. As usual, I ruffled some feathers on this site. Hugs