porto Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Hello, Planing on heading down to Calgary for a float with the boy tomorrow. Just wondering with the water level and flows averaging 65ms at this time of year. Can I get a rough time table from fish creek to mc kinnon? I've done a bit of research on old messages post on here and came up with 8-10hr time table. I would like to stop 5-6 times at about 20-30 mins session for a bit of fishing for my self and make it in before dark. My decision by morning is do I take in from fish creek or play it safe and head straight down to police and depart... I know we're losing daylight daily and I'm thinking no later then 9:00pm off the water! Maybe even 8:30... Thanks Porto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfry Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 We did a float from police to mckinnons last weekend. Water was really low. We launched at 6 am and pulled off the water around 4 pm. We stopped a few times to fish some pockets. Mind you I did the police to mckinnons float a few weeks ago and we did it in 3.5 hours. This was forward paddling the majority of the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scel Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Hello, Planing on heading down to Calgary for a float with the boy tomorrow. Just wondering with the water level and flows averaging 65ms at this time of year. Can I get a rough time table from fish creek to mc kinnon? I've done a bit of research on old messages post on here and came up with 8-10hr time table. I would like to stop 5-6 times at about 20-30 mins session for a bit of fishing for my self and make it in before dark. My decision by morning is do I take in from fish creek or play it safe and head straight down to police and depart... I know we're losing daylight daily and I'm thinking no later then 9:00pm off the water! Maybe even 8:30... Thanks Porto Sunset is 9:09. You will still have 30 or so minutes of twilight to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 We did a float from police to mckinnons last weekend. Water was really low. We launched at 6 am and pulled off the water around 4 pm. We stopped a few times to fish some pockets. Mind you I did the police to mckinnons float a few weeks ago and we did it in 3.5 hours. This was forward paddling the majority of the way Ditto.....did Police-McKinnons a few weeks ago @100m3/s and we were 11hrs(06:00-17:00) with a 1/2 dozen stops on banks and islands along the way.I would think 22x to McK is a pretty ambitious undertaking in this low flow water....figger on an additional 3hrs minimum for 1/2 doz stops and it's gonna be a longgggg day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porto Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 Thanks guys for the inbut... Had a nice float yesterday but fishing was a bit slow. Got to fish creek at 8:30am and started my float at 9:00, Got to police at 11:00 with one stop. Continue the float and stop for about 5 times I guess roughy for 20-30min session. Arrived at McKinnon 8:00pm! Wow that wasn't too bad. I was a bit worry about time but could of made it a longer evening. Did not get dark till after 9:30... Flows were 78m3/s all day which made it a joyable float for a newbie like my self... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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