headscan Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 What are your fly fishing resolutions for 2009? For me: - Fish a wider variety of water. I love the Bow, but I spent far too much time on it compared to some of the other great streams we have in Alberta and BC. - Catch anadromous fish. - Work on my Skagit casting to help with the previous point. - Work on my dry fly presentation. - Not buy any rods or reels. Quote
Gil Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 What are your fly fishing resolutions for 2009? For me: - Fish a wider variety of water. I love the Bow, but I spent far too much time on it compared to some of the other great streams we have in Alberta and BC. - Catch anadromous fish. - Work on my Skagit casting to help with the previous point. - Work on my dry fly presentation. - Not buy any rods or reels. I'm with you on fishing the Bow so much. I love it but it has kept me from trying new water. I want to start explore water in the mountains. I love hiking so I plan to combine the two ... Quote
flyfishfairwx Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 I'm with you on fishing the Bow so much. I love it but it has kept me from trying new water. I want to start explore water in the mountains. I love hiking so I plan to combine the two ... NO... NO ... My resolution and Goal is to convince all of you Calgary fly fishers that the Bow is the only place you can fish and it is the only place to catch fish unless you want to go to Grande Prairie ya that is it... GP has great fishing right in town just like you do ... Go there HA HA HA HA HA MY Resolution is to fish smaller streams or to just hike near the smaller streams for the hell of it.. Quote
Teck71 Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Golden trout, 4day trip to Barnaby ridge Fish more of the trunk road fish atleast once a week Get out fishing with more board members Tight lines and Happy New Year all Teck Quote
Castuserraticus Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Hike new water - worked great his year. I want to see water like Humblefisherman's. Find more fishing partners. Met some new people this year and enjoyed the outings. I've tended to avoid crowds before. Learn spey. I'm kind of a technique junkie. Build 4 season knowledge of the Bow. I still feel weak on spring runoff fishing. Experiment with equipment. While my rod/reel/line combo works I want to try tuning it a bit. In other words I want to continue learning and meet interesting people. Quote
Harps Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Saw this and thought it would be good for a New Years resolution (I know I'll never make it to the gym or fishing down to S. America...) 10 Ways to Fish Green GFF lists ten things we all can do to be more green By Steve Schweitzer From Global Flyfisher at: http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/10waysgreen/ You've heard it from so many sources...live green, do green, be green, green this and green that. The green message is as much marketing hype as it is reality. For the partners at GFF, this made us think how the "green" movement affects flyfishers. It's common sense really...and the if you sit down to think about it, fly fishers have been practicing "green" since the beginning of the sport. But just to be sure, we at GFF have developed a list of ten things we all can do to be more "green" as fly fishers. Call it by any name you want, but being "green" as a flyfisher makes just good conservation sense. We feel the list below contains the most important items, but there are many other ways to be a "green"-conscious fly fisher. After reading this article, consider adding your Fish Green idea at the bottom of the article using our comment form. Your comment, along with those from the thousands of other readers that visit this site daily, will make the most comprehensive list of fly fishing conservation tips for others to read, learn and enjoy. So, on with the list... #1 Pack Out Tippet NEVER discard tippet streamside, no matter what the length. Put excess tippet and old leaders in a spare pocket, then throw it away or recycle it properly when you are home. Some streams and lakes now have monofilament line recycling cans. Or, consider leading the charge in placing recycling bins in your area. #2 Pack Out Split Shot Read this article to get ideas for alternatives to using lead in flies http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/deep/ NEVER discard split shot into the water. Remove them and re-use them. Keep them tucked away in a plastic ziplock bag in your vest. When they’ve reached their useful life, discard or recycle them properly. #3 Minimize Synthetics Consider fishing flies with little or no synthetics at all. Use only materials that nature gave us. If you loose the fly, they’re designed to break down naturally. Isn’t this how fly tying began anyhow? #4 Walk Minimize the use of your personal vehicle; ride a bike to the stream, take public transportation, share a ride, walk the extra mile. Do whatever it takes to minimize the use of fossil fuels #5 Tread Lightly Respect the habitat in which trout food grows. Stream and lake bottoms all contain essential habitat and nutrients for nymphs and small bait fish. Don't walk through a cress-laiden stream to get to the other side. You just destroy the scud-laiden cress which took all season to grow. Don't trapse through a slough of a stream just to see what's going on. You destroy silt in which burrowing mayflys live. Don't walk on stream improvement structure. When you walk through a stream, if you splash, you trash...be gentle...you get the picture... #6 Reuse Bottles Re-use water bottles . Most of us carry a liquid refreshment while fly fishing. Instead of buying a bottle of water and discarding the bottle when you are finished, keep it, fill it up and use it for the next trip. Imagine if those same 10,000 people in #5 all re-used 1 water bottle for just one time; yep you guessed it…that’s 10,000 less plastic bottles sitting at the bottom of landfills. #7 Pack Out Ciggy Butts Pack out cigarette butts . Cigarette butts are the most littered item worldwide according to cigarettelitter.org. For those of you who smoke (and you shouldn’t to begin with for obvious reasons, but I digress…), carry a small baggie in your vest and put your cigarette butts in the baggie. Ciggy butts are not biodegradable. “Cigarette filters have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds, whales and other marine creatures who mistake them for food ... Composed of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, cigarette butts can persist in the environment as long as other forms of plastic", says the Clean Virginia Waterways organization. Better yet, get your own free personal ashtray by visiting http://www.cigaretteLitter.org. #8 Clean Equipment Thoroughly clean your waders and boots. Several issues that affect our waterways are now becoming pandemics: whirling disease and New Zealand mud snail (and other aquatic nuisance species) to name a few. They are easily transported in the felt of wading boots and on the surface of waders. #9 Collect Trash Make a habit of picking up at least one piece of trash on each flyfishing adventure. Let’s put some numbers behind this concept: let’s say that just 10,000 of the hundreds of thousands of visitors to this site each year, pick up one piece of trash on each flyfishing trip. Let’s assume they fly fish 10 times a year on average. That’s 100,000 pieces of trash picked up with hardly any effort at all! Just imagine the volume of garbage we are saving from contaminating the waters we all enjoy. Now, imagine if we made a point of picking up several pieces of trash on each trip….whoa!...now we really are making visible strides. Make a habit of carrying a kitchen-size trash bag in your vest, fill it up as you see trash streamside and discard it properly when you return from your trip. It’s as easy as that. #10 Educate And what’s the most important thing you can do? Educate those around you of the nine things above (& of the list of ideas below, shared by our loyal readers). Send them the link to this article. ***And stop feeding ocean fish to pets... Quote
reevesr1 Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Trunk Road-GP to Hinton Invermere/Fairmont/Canal Flats Area Get out of town more. I spent very little time below Policeman's this year. Fish with ex-Hollanders on some tiny creek where I could get eaten by bears Quote
bhurt Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 For me I say nothing that way if I don't accoplish something I am not disappoint, yet at the same time I am not saying I can do everything, always learning always growing, thats my motto Quote
Taco Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Fish with ex-Hollanders on some tiny creek where I could get eaten by bears Dutch descent, I was born in St Mike's in L'bridge and we'll bring Clive... dang near anybody can outrun him so he really keeps an eye out for bears. New Yrs fishin'res? spend some more time on X Y and Z, find out what really goin' on there. Quote
Simpson Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 My main fly fishiing goals are.... Get goining on tying dry flys, I have been focusing on Sub-surface flys up until now. Target bull trout Improve entomology knowledge Happy New year to all! Quote
SanJuanWorm Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 My goals are to fish and ride less and to change diapers more. I call it the Max Chan 08 plan. Quote
darrinhurst Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 My main goals are to learn more about everything! Learn more about the entomology and matching the hatch, look under rocks more, find out what the fish are eating. Plus, get out of town. I fished the Bow primarily, but I need to try some of the other fantastic waters we have around here. I had a great time out at the Oldman, I want to fish the Highwood, the Livingstone, Quirk Creek, and numerous other places where I can find trout. Learn and explore, that's what I want to do this year. Going with someone to teach me would be great too. Quote
maxwell Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 want too get fish steelehad this year.. explore more streams taht i only fished a bit this year, stay off teh cuttie streams and fish the bow a ton as usual! Quote
LynnF Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I have but 2 simple goals this year 1. Buy a fishing license 2. Fenagle another free salmon fishing trip in the summer I'm 100% confident about #1. #2 is a crapshoot, but I'm feeling kinda lucky Quote
SanJuanWorm Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Another goal is to egg lynns house when its uber cold out. Quote
LynnF Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Another goal is to egg lynns house when its uber cold out. If that's the best you can do while changing your way through the myriad of poopy diapers that you aspire to, then I applaud your goal and may actually participate, depending on the temperature of course. You should aspire to greater Dave.....I'm disappointed with the same lame threats since Halloween. Quote
bigbowtrout Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I wanna catch a nice New Zealand trout. Opps thats right its 09 already and I caught 2 today LOL Quote
Taco Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 pics meng? congrats u lucky BASTARD!!! i corrected that for you, no need to thank me Quote
bigalcal Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 1. Fish some new waters 2. Improve my nymphing 3. Stalk and catch bullies 4. Maybe fish the Bow for the first time!! HaHa Quote
alhuger Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I have a tonne, more than I will get to I know so here are a few which come to mind: 1. Stay solvent for the year so I can actually fish. This does not look like a good year. 2. Land a Chinook in tidal water or close to it on a swung fly. 3. Fish the 'upper stretch' on the two rivers I've been meaning to explore more, the Adams and the Seymour. 4. Spend some time just watching for risers and maybe getting my dry fly game started. 5. Learn to czech nymph. 6. Sell all my extra gear. al Quote
rusty Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 -break the 30" mark on a rainbow -catch a steelhead -fish for false albies in the fall -pike over 20 pounds on the fly Quote
Golfman09 Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 *Ty every fly I use through the year. *Learn more about Chironomids and how to fish them...(hoping Brian Chan can help in a few weeks!) *Find some areas way off the beaten path to slow life down a bit. *Finally catch a "keeper" at Bullshead.....and then let him go to be caught again! Quote
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