Fly Tying Mondays Start Monday November 25th-6:30 pm

Hi Everyone! 

Its time to get Fly Tying Mondays started. Please note the new starting time of 6:30 pm. That is a request from our host Adam. The Central Alberta Fly Tying Club is for all tying abilities and it is basically a drop in group every Monday starting November 25th. Just bring your tying tools and we will supply the tying materials. The cost is $5 which is used to cover the cost of the tying materials for that particular session!

As always, I am looking for presenters who would like to share a couple of flies with the group!

Here are the dates:

Monday November 25th-Bob Vanderwater-Cormorants

Monday December 2nd- Dr. Bill Young

Monday December 9th-Blobs-The Latest and the Greatest!

Monday December 16th-

Christmas

Monday January 6th-

Monday January 13th- Garnet Clews

Monday January 22st- Rick Miyauchi

Monday January 27th- 

Monday February 3rd- Dan Reaman

Monday February 10th- Larry Prowse

Monday February 17th- Family Day-No Tying!

Monday February 24th- Doug Pullan-Bombers

Monday March 3rd-Rick Miyauchi

Monday March 10th- Dan Reaman

Monday March 17th- Garnet Clews

Monday March 24th- Ralf Kuntzemann

 

The Dam Man Changes My Day Big Time ... for the Good!

I had a very interesting morning fly fishing for walleye on the Red Deer River just below the Dickson Dam. With the warm air still hanging around, I decided to head back to chase walleye. Why not, the fly fishing has been excellent.

After setting up, I made my first few casts and connected with walleye right away. It was quite overcast and very little wind. 

...AND THEN the horn sounds at the penstocks which usually means the dam man is increasing the flow. In a few minutes, the Red Deer River starts to rise and I have to move my gear bag away from the rapidly rising water along the shore. From past experiences, when this happens, the fish on the Red Deer River adjust where they are hanging out!

Well the eddy line I am working is now flowing quite fast. I wonder what the walleye will do? The walleye seemed to move alongside the fast water and several started to feed. I had to figure out how to keep my balanced silver minnow in the zone. I added some split shot and moved my strike indicator a bit deeper. It took a bit of trial and error to get the depth right. I also had to high stick so my line did not swing my fly out away from my intended path.  As always I am jigging my balanced silver minnow as it drifts along. I do not over jig it! The next 90 minutes was steady hook ups and I am sure I had a big smile on my face!

Eventually, the speed of the flow slowed and soon came to a stop. The fly fishing also slowed dramatically so I headed home for a late lunch.

Today the Dam Man was my friend. I have had other experiences where opening the spillway abruptly ended my day of fly fishing. Today I had a great day thanks to the Dam Man.

 

Dr. Bill Chases Salmon in the Yukon

Dr. Bill has family in the Yukon and they love the outdoors, just like Bill! Well on a very recent visit, Bill had the opportunity to swing flies with his spey rod for coho! As you can see, Bill connected with several coho! Those bear prints look incredibly fresh too. I would be keeping my head on a swivel! Dr. Bill just like our family loves nordic skiing and Whitehorse Ski Trails were up and running. Of course Bill enjoyed some early season skiing at the first nordic ski area to open in Canada! Way to go Bill. Carpe Diem!