Rocky Mtn. House area

[DonAndersen]

Folks,

The field runoff really got going Friday. Clearwater River @ highway # 752 is ice jamed, Prairie Creek @Everdale Hall is ice covered. Lots of snow in the fields. 

Lakes are weeks from opening.

 

Don

[AquaBoy]

South Central streams are very high and dirty too, took a drive north of Calgary on Sunday and there is a lot of water moving down ditches and into those streams. Vis was sub 3".

[AquaBoy]

On a positive note I saw a ton of BWO hatching and a variety of a other insect activity on the banks.

[SilverDoctor]

Wonder if the hatches will be a bit later this year.

[AquaBoy]

I was out on the same stream on April 17th- April 30th constantly last year (digitally tagged photos) and I have a feeling that everything seems to be delayed by ~2 weeks hatch wise. 

A buddy and I think day one of last years Bow River stone-fly hatch was July 4th- we were nymphing black/golden stones all day and there was no stones on the surface until 10pm that night when we were leaving. The following week the new blew up on social media and on here about the good surface action. It will be interesting to see when the stones come out this year like they did last.. I think it would be no surprise to anyone if it is later.

Ill set the over/under bets on July 18th

[Dangus]

I’m my experience, Hatches tend to play catch up and overlap rather than slow up over the whole season. 

If we’re talking about the bow now, I’d bet stones begin to emerge around the end of June as runoff tapers, just as they always have...

[Goggin]

Does this mean the likes of prairie creek will be brown till june, went there this morning, about 3” visibility