Preacher's Daughter

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Preacher's Daughter

Patagonia Fly Fishing writes: "From down in the LC, we get some wintertime red fishing action. Close proximity casting and fly management wearing less-than-normal attire for that region… must be having a cold winter down there, huh guys?"

Catch Magazine - Issue #33

Catch Magazine - Issue #33

The Official Journal of Fly Fishing Photography & Film

This is a BIG issue. Really, really packed with great photography and video

Catch Magazine does require a subscription, but each issue is just two bucks.

Read here: http://bit.ly/NZuwYT

Dutch flood experts in Calgary to help improve emergency plans

Photo, courtesy Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press

Dutch flood experts in Calgary to help improve emergency plans
 
Low-lying Netherlands has a very advanced flood protection program

CBC News Posted: Feb 18, 2014

Experts from the Netherlands are in Calgary for a conference, helping officials here prevent a repeat of the disaster that struck southern Alberta in 2013.

Read article here: http://bit.ly/1fLZ5HD

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved

August 2012

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Check out this item in the Team Canada On-line Auction...

Bow River Shuttles writes: "Hey The City of Calgary! Here's an awesome opportunity to fish the #BowRiver with a very experienced guide! At the moment, a steal, with the top bid at only $200.00!"

Check out this item in the Team Canada On-line Auction...

Lot #31. A guided day on the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta for 2 persons - with fly fishing guide extraordinaire: Terry Johnson of Fish Tales Fly Shop
(Approximate Retail Value: $550.00)

This item includes one day of guided fishing down the Bow River in a Hyde drift boat for two people. Everything will be supplied; rods, waders, lunch, non-alcoholic drinks, flies, shuttle to and from Fish Tales Fly Shop and casting instruction if needed.

http://innovativeflyfisher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1504.0

Skeena Anglers Auction

Skeena Anglers Auction

Specially created for those who love to fish!

Bid on items and know your investment will spawn into keeping the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition initiatives working at preserving the recreational resource and the wild rivers, you so love to be a part of. You can help save fish by getting yourself into some new waders, outfit your wallet with news flies or make that cast across the glassy water vintage style with a bamboo fly-rod or Henshaw Reel. So get bidding, and get your buddies bidding so you can outbid them!

BID NOW AT THIS LINK: http://bit.ly/1f9PqKN

Via: Moldy Chum

GEOBASS Trailer

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

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August 2012

#bowriver #flyfishing

Taking a regional approach to fracking

An Encana Corp. fracking operation.
Photograph by: Chris Bolin Photography Inc

Ewart: Taking a regional approach to fracking

AER to launch pilot project of oversight

By Stephen Ewart, Calgary Herald February 22, 2014

...."If you're looking at water management you can't do it on a wellby-well basis, it has to be regional," said Cal Hill, Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) "the same with the surface infrastructure."

Fracks in Alberta will typically use less water than in northeast B.C. for example. A gas well in B.C.'s Horn River Basin could use 90,000 cubic metres of water but, according to the AER, a Duvernay well in Alberta would use closer to 30,000 cubic metres.

The oil and gas industry uses about 10 per cent of the water in Alberta but there are concerns over the quantity that could be used in fracking and the impact on water quality.

Haphazard well completions and poor operating practices by a few producers in Canada and the United States have prompted public concern over contamination of water supplies. Several jurisdictions new to oil and gas development have issued moratoriums on fracking.

In Alberta, landowner Jessica Ernst has had a long battle with gas producer Encana over problems with her water she blames on fracking....

Read more here: http://bit.ly/1kvZgPi

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved

August 2012

#bowriver #flyfishing

Online Auction / Fundraiser for Fly Fishing Team Canada

Team Canada at World Championships 2013 in Norway. Photo, courtesy Todd Oishi

Online Auction / Fundraiser for Fly Fishing Team Canada

Welcome to the online auction fundraiser for the 2 Canadian National Fly Fishing Teams that will be representing Canada at the 2014 America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament, and gathering information and intel for the Youth and Senior Canadian National Fly Fishing Teams that will be competing at the 2015 and 2016 World Fly Fishing Championships in Vail, Colorado...

This online auction will run end at midnight on March 8, 2014 (Pacific Standard Time).

Bid on items from Bare, Fly Mart.ca, Hook and Hackle Canada, Loon Outdoors, Hanak, Rio, Loop Canada, Redington, Echo, Moby Nets, Orvis, Airflo, Protac and many more.

More info at this link: http://innovativeflyfisher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1504.0

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved 2012

August 2012

#bowriver #flyfishing

March = Seatrout

Photo, courtesy Reelgirl Fly Fishing

March = Seatrout

"Well, maybe not quite yet for me ;)

There was no sea trout this time either. There was one piece cold and wet Lotte who only rejoice EVEN MORE to warmer air, hatching mayflies and jumping trout in rivers. Can not wait!!"

Read more at Reelgirl-flyfishing

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved

August 2012

#bowriver #flyfishing

How Wolves Change Rivers

How Wolves Change Rivers

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved

August 2012

#bowriver #flyfishing

Scientist says Alberta’s flood forecasting tools from ’Stone Age’

Photo, courtesy Calgary Herald

Scientist says Alberta’s flood forecasting tools from ’Stone Age’

By Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald February 16, 2014

... Kevin Shook, a research scientist with the University of Saskatchewan, suggested the country’s infrastructure is also problematic.

“The investment in infrastructure in Canada is woefully lacking — not simply meteorological stations or hydro-meteorological stations, but all of the infrastructure supporting this kind of effort,” he said. “The number of people we have in Canada doing the river forecasting is absolutely minute.”

Shook, who worked as a river forecaster for Alberta Environment from 1997 to 2007, said he has since visited regional forecast centres in Portland, Ore. and Sacramento, Calif.

“I felt like the poor hillbilly cousin. It was like going from the Stone Age to Star Wars,” he said, adding Alberta’s system is actually one of the better ones compared to some of the other provinces...

Read article here: http://bit.ly/1os2iUK

Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season

Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All right reserved

The fly fisher in the bow of the drift boat is making a cast. Can you spot the fly line?

August 2012

#bowriver #flyfishing

Minnow Mimics, Small Flies for Big Trout, Competition Nymphing Tactics, Green Rock Worm

Minnow Mimics, Small Flies for Big Trout, Competition Nymphing Tactics, Green Rock Worm

Sat Mar 01 (10 am) At Country Pleasures Fly Fishing - Minnow Mimics - Adam Rich ties some of the best baitfish patterns we know of. From Roosterfish to Trout, his patterns are very effective. Adam will ties his flatwing style streamer as well….very cool!

Sat Mar 01 (12 noon) At Iron Bow Fly Shop - Small Flies for Big Trout - Jim Butt is a permanent fixture on the banks of the lower Bow. Jim has always loved his small flies and recently taken up fishing Tenkara rods. Learn these productive patterns from one of the most knowledgeable anglers we know!!

Sun Mar 02 (1:00 pm): At Fish Tales Fly Shop - Competition Nymphing Tactics with John Nishi. Learn some tips and tricks for competition nymphing from one of Canada’s leading competition anglers – John Nishi. You can apply what he shares with you to your nymphing strategy in the coming months. John has been a representative on Canada’s fly fishing team for several years.

Tues Mar 04 (12:00 noon) At Bow River Troutfitters - Green Rock Worm (Caddis Larva). Per fly class: Patterns designed to be tied quickly as they are used by guides on local waters. Info including cost http://bit.ly/1ii57nP.

The Final Push

Photo, courtesy Yellowstone to Yukon 
Conservation Initiative/Stephen Legault

The Final Push

Kevin Van Tighem writes:

"Tomorrow is the deadline for public comments on the draft land use plan for the South Saskatchewan region. If you don't have time to wade through the draft plan but want to encourage the government to address the conservation shortcomings of the draft here are some points that you might want to cut and paste into an email to LUF@gov.ab.ca ------

1. Alberta's surviving native prairie should be protected from sale, cultivation and new surface disturbance. Ranching is compatible with conserving the many species at risk on the prairie, but further damage to grasslands isn't.

2. The Castle area has the highest biodiversity in the region and produces a third of our water. It needs protection as a Wildland Park.

3. Off-highway vehicle abuse of our foothills and Front Ranges is out of control and needs to be reined in. Use should be restricted to a few properly-designed trails that don't damage watersheds and wetlands or disturb grizzly and trout habitat. New regulations enabling citizens to initiate prosecutions of offenders would help improve enforcement which is currently very weak.

4. Clearcut logging should no longer be permitted in our river headwaters. New guidelines should require canopy retention methods that enable trees to continue intercepting rain and providing shade for the spring snowpack.

5. Financial incentives that encourage private property owners to restore and maintain wetlands and native grassland and to conserve habitat for species at risk should be put into place as soon as possible.

6. Dry dams and other river engineering should not be considered until the health of the headwater landscapes has been full restored. If there is a need for new dams, trapping of beavers should be prohibited so we can get dams where they are most useful, at no cost to the taxpayer."

More info at Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative and at CPAWS Southern Alberta