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Jonny 5

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fishing the west slope of the rockies
« on: May 29, 2008, 07:02:18 PM »
Howdy fishers,  I am about to head off for a 3 day trip around golden, radium, and castle mountain junction (on the alberta side)...  I imagine that there must be some phenomenal fishing out there, but have no clue where to start... anyone have a few suggestions?  I might just try my luck everywhere I can, and hope that run-off is not going to make the fishing too hard  :P

Anyhow, I am leaving friday (may 30) so I guess this is really a late time to be asking, but you never know  :D

Cheers,

Jon
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Re: fishing the west slope of the rockies
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 07:07:46 PM »
Some of streams will have the spring closure but some lakes like Whiteswan, Premier lakes for a variety of fish, Kocanusa can be good. Columbia River is open I think.
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another SLICE of dirty fish perhaps?

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Re: fishing the west slope of the rockies
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2008, 06:22:53 AM »
Good point, I just looked at the regs and most of the creeks open on the 14th of june  :'(  looks like I will be fishing lakes and ponds (some one has to do it I guess)

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Re: fishing the west slope of the rockies
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2008, 06:14:33 PM »
Well, just got back in... In brief, most of the nice creeks were closed to fishing, or in run off, or both, so I didn't have much luck for the first couple days.  Today I got into kootney national park and fished an open lake and got a tonne of brookies, nothing big but they sure were beautiful looking fish... looked like they were still in spawn colours from the fall?!

Anyhow thanks to those who emailed...  funny thing, was the fellow who sold me my park license did not know how many flies I could use, so I stuck with one, but I might have been allowed to use two... not sure.  Rule says not more than 2 gang hooks. Fho hucking knows?  ;D

Jon
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