The Fishin' Hole in support of Casting for Life

Special Guest Calgary Flames Center Brendan

Morrison (left) and The Fishin' Hole Manager Bill Robertson 

All photos: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Back in November, The Fishin' Hole sponsored a special screening of the Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T).  Proceeds from this event, some $2,000, were donated to Casting for Life in support of their programs for breast cancer survivors. 

Friends of The Fishin' Hole and Casting for Life who helped out in various ways included  Calgary Women Fly Fishing Club, Calgary Hook & Hackle Club and Bow River Shuttles.

The Fishin' Hole Manager Bill Robertson and Louise

Stinson, The Fishin' Hole & Calgary Hook & Hackle Club

Kathy Hamilton, Casting for Life, with CFL supporter.

Casting for Life volunteers behind the counter serving soft drinks

 and goodies prepared by the Calgary Women Fly Fishers Club

CFL supporter Michelle Magotiaux, Bow River

Shuttles, chatting with one of her shuttle clients

Calgary Women Fly Fishing Club Interim President Mary Zolmer (centre) at CWFFC display table

Calgary Hook & Hackle Club President Daniel Young (left)

F3T attendees

Special Guest speaker Phil Rowley

Cardel Theatre

Countdown to CONNECT Canadian Premiere - 31 days!

Alaska pike fishing during the filming of "Connect."

Photo courtesy: Jim Klug, Producer, Confluence Films

We are counting down the days to the Canadian Premiere of ‘CONNECT’ on January 13th, 2012!

Each day, we will post an exclusive Jim Klug photo from ‘The Making of CONNECT’.

Check back daily to enjoy behind-the-scenes action from the six corners of the ‘CONNECT’ world: Africa, Alaska, Cuba, Japan, Maine and Yellowstone.

More information and ticket purchase here

Stepping into the Stream @ Calgary Women Fly Fishers Club - Dec 15, 2011

"Women step into this film with their reflections on their connections to rivers, life's experiences, and nature through their favorite sport. An ode to fly fishing."

The next meeting of the Calgary Women Fly Fishers Club will be followed by a Christmas Social evening with refreshments, socializing, and a showing of Barbara Klutini’s award winning film “Stepping into the Stream”.

Members and guests are invited to attend.

Thursday, December 15. 7:00 pm-9:00 pm @ Bow Habitat Station (1440 17A Street SE, Calgary)

NOTE: Tickets to the Canadian Premiere of ‘CONNECT’ (Frid Jan 13, 2012) will be available at this meeting.

Fly Life Mag ‘South of the Border Issue’ – Dec 2011

Go directly to the interview with John Fowler. John specializes in sculpture of fresh and saltwater gamefish cast in stainless steel and bronze. You’ll be amazed at the images of his work.

This issue is titled “South of the Border”, as in south of the U.S.A./Mexican border. With that in mind, make your second stop “The Yucatan Slam”, subtitled ‘So many places to fish and so little time’. Somewhere in there, I'm sure that you’ll find a destination to add to your bucket list. :-) 

All told, more than 100 pages of salt water fun and photos!

Fly Life Mag ‘South of the Border Issue’ – Dec 2011

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Countdown to CONNECT Canadian Premiere - 32 days!

Tiger fishing in Tanzania during the filming of 'CONNECT'.

Photo courtesy: Jim Klug, Producer, Confluence Films

We are counting down the days to the Canadian Premiere of ‘CONNECT’ on January 13th, 2012!

Each day, we will post an exclusive Jim Klug photo from ‘The Making of CONNECT’.

Check back daily to enjoy behind-the-scenes action from the six corners of the ‘CONNECT’ world: Africa, Alaska, Cuba, Japan, Maine and Yellowstone.

More information and ticket purchase here

I Love Rock & Roll

Just what I needed on a snowy Sunday morning!

CONNECT - Canadian Premiere

Michelle Magotiaux of Bow River Shuttles is pleased to present the Canadian Premiere of CONNECT from Confluence Films!

This event will benefit Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Canada.

"100% over-the-top kick-a**."

- Michael Gracie, MidCurrent & michaelgracie.com

"Confluence Films has done it again! With winter just around the corner, this will have you longing for next season ... dreaming of that trip of a lifetime."

- Kevin McKay, Maine Fly Fish

"I think I've watched Connect 6 times already .... Love it!"

- Jason Duong, Bloodknot Magazine

"I thought the film was amazing ... breathtaking ... fantastic. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time."

- FlyFishilicious.com

"Connect delivers on every level!"

- Flycurious.com

From Chris Patterson and Jim Klug - the filmmakers who created the highly acclaimed movies DRIFT and RISE - comes CONNECT, the most ambitious, large-scale fly fishing film ever made.

Continuing in the tradition of the multi-segment, multi-story format that Confluence Films has become known for, CONNECT introduces a number of new locations, exotic species, and compelling characters that epitomize and exemplify the sport of fly fishing.

Shot on location in Japan, Yellowstone National Park, the Yukon Drainage of Alaska, the flats of Cuba, the coast of Maine, and in the wilds of Tanzania, Africa, this feature-length movie will once again transport viewers around the world in search of new waters and exhilarating travel experiences.

CONNECT features well-known anglers Greg Vincent, Jeff Currier, Jimmy Bartschi, Craig Mathews, Masa Katsumata, Brian Porter, and Captain Eric Wallace, and more than a dozen different fish species, both freshwater and saltwater.

As with DRIFT and RISE before, the cinematography, sound, and feel of CONNECT come together in a visual masterpiece that promises to re-set the bar for fly fishing films.

Date: Friday January 13, 2012

Showtime: 7:00 pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Location: Cardel Theatre

180 Quarry Park Blvd SE, Calgary, Alberta

Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

TICKET INFORMATION HERE

Purchase tickets online here

Purchase tickets at the following locations:

• Fish Tales Fly Shop

• Country Pleasures Fly Fishing

• West Winds Fly Shop

• Southbow Fly & Tackle

• Bow River Troutfitters

• The Fishin' Hole

• Calgary Women Fly Fishers Club meetings

• Calgary Hook & Hackle Club meetings

Give CONNECT for Christmas!

Great stocking stuffer!

Confluence Films producer Jim Klug is interviewed in Bloodknot Magazine by Jason Duong: Jim Klug Interviewed: Fishing, Booze and Bank Robberies

For information about 'Drift', 'Rise' and 'Connect', go to Confluence Films

Fracking concerns scuttle Encana asset sale

Fracking concerns scuttle Encana asset sale

Bid recalled due to water issues

By Dina O'Meara,

Calgary Herald

December 7, 2011

CALGARY — Concerns over the effect of hydraulic fracturing on the drinking water of a Native American reservation have prompted a Texas company to drop its bid for an Encana Corp. asset, the companies said.

Legacy Reserves withdrew its $45 million US offer for the field near Pavillion, Wyo., after the Environmental Protection Agency said water in the region contained high levels of cancer-causing pollutants and at least one chemical used in hydraulic fracturing.

Read more here

Moldy Chum also posted on this subject today.

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

The Dunk Tank

Good times with good friends from Calgary-based The Humble Fisherman

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles

Dobie Gray RIP

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Gray Ghost Productions: Rolling on Salmon

Take 2 - The Penobscot

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

This hawk had lunch in its talons.

                 Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011           

Fracking safety concerns a festering issue

Fracking safety concerns a festering issue

By Stephen Ewart,

Calgary Herald

December 3, 2011

The fracking debate moved to the floor of the provincial legislature this week, where the government promised to get in front of the issue while con-tending it's nothing new.

In contrast to the heated policy debates among politicians elsewhere in the world, discussions in the Alberta legislature have been limited to a handful of questions - generally more speculative than penetrating - appearing in Hansard over the past three years.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the technological revolution that, when applied with advanced horizontal drilling techniques, has literally re-drawn the global map for oil and, especially, natural gas.

Nobody was predicting Pennsylvania or Poland were going to become major producing regions before the ubiquitous application of shooting jets of water laced with small amounts of chemicals and sand into rock deep under-ground.

It's opened oil and gas deposits once considered uneconomic so much that it caused gas prices to plummet to largely uneconomic levels. Some estimates say 90 per cent of North American wells now use fracking to increase production.

The great fear - among myriad fears - is groundwater contamination.

Read more here

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles

This is Fly - #32 Dec 2011

I’d start with ‘Holga Master’, a very cool photo essay by Brian Schiele. 

Then I’d go to Mongolia, chasing huge Taimen in ‘Last Moment of Silence’.

After that, you’re on your own… all the while listening to this issue’s ‘Mixtape’.

This is Fly – December 2011

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles

Should Enbridge's proposed Alberta-B.C. oil pipeline go ahead?

Click directly on map for larger image. It shows the territories of the various First Nations along the pipeline route.

Should Enbridge's proposed Alberta-B.C. oil pipeline go ahead?

December 1, 2011

First Nations leaders from British Columbia are scheduled to make an announcement Thursday about a proposed pipeline that would take Alberta oil to the northern coast of B.C.

Enbridge has proposed building the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Bruderheim, Alta., near Edmonton, to Kitimat, B.C., a coastal city with a deep-water port that could accommodate oil tankers transporting oilsands bitumen to Asian markets.

"Northern Gateway will link two of Canada's most important competitive strengths: our tremendous petroleum reserves and our Pacific advantage -- safe deepwater ports that are close to the growing markets of the Pacific Rim," said Janet Holder, Enbridge's executive vice-president of Western access, in August.

Environmentalists say the proposed route would take the pipeline through northern B.C. rivers and sensitive habitat.

Read more here
 

Via: Riley Swendseid on Facebook

NOTE: At the time of this posting, more than 66 comments had been submitted in response to this article.

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Looking for poachers near 22X boat launch? City cops. Probably not. :-)

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Angling Trade - #18 Nov 2011

Angling Trade - The 2011 Year End Issue

Looking back along the Bow River - July 2011

Three generations enjoying the day.

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

“Am I Doing This Right?”

Jeff Thomson demonstrating production tying.

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Jeff Thomson answers questions and demonstrates proper techniques and common mistakes in fly tying.

Tie several of his cool patterns: Beetle, CDC Ant, Slickwater Caddis, Squirrel Prince, Girdle Bug, Soft Hackle, Foxy Clouser, Slump Buster, Strip Leech, Double Bunny

Saturday Dec 03 2011 @ 10:00 am @ Country Pleasures.

Country Pleasures Fly Shop

Flymage está aquí – No 10, Dec 2011

'Christmas Alone', a solo trip chasing bonefish on Christmas Island, is a fun read, accompanied by very good photography.

Check out 'Caddis Puppa', the first in a new series of fly tying videos from Flymage.

Your choice of Spanish or English.

Flymage Magazine – Dec 2011

Looking back along the Bow River - July 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011