Fly Tying Mondays Start November 27th at Reliance Learning Centre

Hi Everyone!

I can hardly believe that winter set in so fast. Karen and I were lucky enough to get our boats serviced and put away just in the nick of time. It is time to start thinking of getting our fly tying gang together for the winter. I have posted dates below. I hope to fill in presenters in the coming days. If you are willing to do a tying session, please get in contact with me (403-598-3802) so I can get you on the schedule. You do not need to be an expert to led a tying session. New fly tyers are always welcome to join us!

Fly Tying Monday Dates for 2023-2024

November 27th-Bob Vanderwater

December 4-Rick Miyauchi

December 11-Bob Vanderwater

December 18th-Steve Luethi

January 8th-Bob Vanderwater

January 15th-Steve Luethi

January 22-Dan Reaman

January 29th-Dr. Bill Young

February 5th-Rick Miyauchi

February 10th- Phil Rowley All Day Workshop

February 12

February 19- Family Day-No Tying

February 26th-Doug Pullan

March 6th-Larry Prowse

March 11th-Ralf Kuntzemann

March 18th-Garnet Clews

March 25th

 

Winter is Just Around the Corner!

Finally Karen and I were able to get out and fly fish yesterday. I have been under the weather lately as well and it felt great to get outside. After taking a look at the long range weather forecast, I am glad we were able to get out! It looks like we are in for a big weather change. Sigh!

Well yesterday was beautiful. It was a bit windy but I was still fly fishing in my shorts and light sweater. The rainbows yesterday were eating shrimp and daphnia. Karen and I tied on a Bubba Gump Shrimp, Tokaryk Specials and blobs. The action was not fast and furious but it was steady! Later in the day I started stripping backswimmers and I was able to connect on a few rainbows as well. I was hoping their memory made them interested in boatmen. The hits were vicious. 

Time to find your cold weather clothes. It looks like winter is just around the corner! Bundle up and get out this weekend, it maybe your last chance.

 

Kerbes Pond Near Erskine

Kerbes Pond just 25 km south of Erskine is a designated trophy fishery.  Karen and I managed to get out there yesterday afternoon. It was another beautiful afternoon! Warm fall days are to be cherished. We even fished until dark because it was so pleasant! We had Kerbes to ourselves. How were the rainbows, tigers and browns doing at Kerbes?

I thought we were going for a drive because I figured the water levels were going to be extremely low. Once we arrived, we realized that fly fishing from shore was going to be extremely limiting because of the tules (reeds) that have grown all around the pond! We launched our pram at the tiny but quite useable boat launch! We motored over to the area near the 5 working aerators and we found the water was still close to 18 feet deep in places. The water temperature was only 50F and the visibility was about 2-3 feet, which is typical of Kerbes Pond.

As usual we set up along the edges to fly fish and we were into fish all afternoon. We started with Tokaryk Specials and Ice Minnows. We caught mostly stockers. After a while, we fished with floating backswimmer patterns and had a blast catching rainbows. I did hook a very large tiger trout that became unbuttoned near the boat. We saw several very large wakes of sizeable trout! We did not connect with any of them after I lost the big tiger trout! Darn!

I was quite encouraged with the fishery. So many sloughs were bone dry in the area. I hope we get lots of snow this winter. Out water table is low. It was certainly worth going. If you do go, take your pontoon boat or pram. Yes there are places to fish from shore but they are few.