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| Mid-morning Wednesday near Graves Landing All photos: Bow River Shuttles |
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| Pheasant near Legacy Island |
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Today along the Bow River
New habitat created for fish in Spray River
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| Charlie Pacas Parks Canada Helicopters were used to place trees in the Spray River to improve fish habitat. |
New habitat created for fish in Spray River
Oct 13, 2011 06:00 am | CATHY ELLIS
Rocky Mountain Outlook
A threatened fish population in Banff’s Spray River has been given a fighting chance in the wake of a massive restoration effort of habitat destroyed as a result of a faulty hydroelectric facility.
TransAlta has spent up to $500,000 to restore habitat in the mid-section of the Spray River, including dropping 450 to 500 trees by helicopter and rafts into the river to create new pools where fish can thrive.
Crews equipped with electro-fishers then saved about 2,000 fish that would have been stranded in remnant pools and side channels once water stopped breaching a dam and dirty and unnaturally high water levels subsided.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
MidCurrent and Angling Trade Publish Online Gear Guide
Angling Trade has partnered with MidCurrent to create a comprehensive online Gear Guide featuring reviews, videos, and photographs of fly fishing products available for 2012.
It is one of the most comprehensive consumer media resources focused on fly-related products, involving over 160 new products and 140 different brands.
It also promises to be one of the most widely-read, having generated more than 180,000 ad impressions on the day it was launched (October 12) alone.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Calgary Women Fly Fishers Club - Inaugural Meeting - A look back
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| All photos: Bow River Shuttles |
The Calgary Women Fly Fishing Club had a wonderful turnout for their inaugural meeting in September.
After a very informative guided tour of the Bow Habitat Station, it was standing room only for the meeting.
Director Leslie Peterson opened the meeting, and we heard from Vice President Gerry Thompson and President Mary Zolmer, who also cut the special cake.
To view more photos of this event, please click here.
Thanks to club member and photographer Sue Kostyniuk for sending us her two photos of the cake cutting (You can view these at the link just above). It’s always a challenge to make sure everyone in the group is visible and looking at the camera. In our photo (below), Vice Pres Gerry was hidden.
The next club get together will be this coming Thursday Oct 20 where the club meeting will be followed by a guest presentation from Caitlin Gifford of Country Pleasures Fly Shop on fly fishing techniques and gear.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Girls Just Wanna... Fish!
Girls Just Wanna... Fish! from Tightline Productions on Vimeo.
Four women from Colorado who simply love to fly fish.
Via: Midcurrent
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Alexander Beetle
After our family Thanksgiving dinner last night, we did something we hadn’t done in years.
The guitar came out, and we sang songs that we had enjoyed around the campfire during our wilderness trips when the kids were very young.
One of those songs was Alexander Beetle.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
46% of fly fishers…
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| Adam Legge, president of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, addresses the issue of depression in the workplace during a conference coinciding with National Depression Screening Day. Legge said businesses can't afford to ignore the costs of lost productivity due to mentally ill workers. Photograph by: Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald |
46 per cent of Albertans will be directly or indirectly affected by depression.
Mental Illness Awareness Week continues across the country, with many more stories related to the ongoing problem of the stigma associated with mental health issues appearing in the media.
The business community is also stepping forward, outlining not only the costs to business associated with mental illness , but also the problem of stigma keeping employees from seeking help.
Today is also National Depression Screening Day. You can go to www.test4depression.com and complete the depression screening tool. Sent it to friends, colleagues and your HR department. If it suggests you see a counsellor, please go. If it doesn’t, look around at three of your colleagues and support the two who you hope will go.
Here are a couple of related stories:
In Memoriam - Steve Jobs
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Trout Unlimited Canada Receives RBC Blue Water Leadership Grant for Qualicum Bay Enhancement Project
Trout Unlimited Canada Receives RBC Blue Water Leadership Grant for Qualicum Bay Enhancement Project
For Imediate Release-Trout Unlimited Canada is once again the proud recipient of a Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Blue Water Project Leadership Grant for $125,000 spread over two years in support of its ongoing Nile Creek-Qualicum Bay Enhancement project.
RBC's Blue Water Project is a 10-year, $50 million grant program to support projects dedicated to water conservation, watershed protection, access to clean drinking water, and other fresh water-related issues in Canada and around the world. Since 2007, RBC has pledged over $27 million to more than 350 not-for-profit organizations worldwide that protect watersheds or ensure access to clean drinking water.
The Nile Creek-Qualicum Bay Enhancement Program is a comprehensive habitat restoration and enhancement initiative being undertaken by the Nile Creek Enhancement Society (NCES), Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) and Vancouver Island University (VIU) to restore the water resources of the area and to rebuild anadromous cutthroat populations in the Qualicum Bay area. This ongoing project intends to rebuild sea-run cutthroat trout in creeks and streams flowing into Qualicum Bay on Vancouver Island by restoring degraded habitat and re-establishing and improving access to restored and productive anadromous cutthroat trout habitat from the intertidal region through to the headwaters of six streams.
RBC Blue Water Leadership Grant funds will be used over two years to build upon the work that has already been completed as a result of an initial $75,000 in October 2009.
Read more here
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Fly Life Magazine - Sept 2011
For a change of pace, check out the feature article ‘Ditchcraft’ which describes the intricacies of spillway fly fishing in Florida.
Fly Life Magazine – Sept 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Flymage Magazine - October 2011
Flymage takes you to ‘another’ Chile – chasing trout on streams that flow above 2,000 metres in the high country.
Flymage Magazine – October 2011
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