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Old 08-02-2018, 04:41 PM
smitty9 smitty9 is offline
 
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I'd still try for the Blackstone. Or try Shunda creek, access anywhere off highway 11. One of the tribs you could try, if you don't mind small brook trout is Grey Owl creek (trib to the Nordegg). Access is just south of the bridge over the Nordegg using the Sunchild road. Get a good map.

The river flow website won't of course tell you how murky the waters are, but you can always make a good guess based on height and volume flow. What most experienced guys do is develop a sense of how easy the (bigger) rivers are to wade, and what the fishing will be like based on the weekly and yearly graphs. Just comes with time and experience. For example, good, experienced guides on the Bow river will pretty much know how long a float will take them based on the graph. Over time, experience and flow can sometimes give you a pretty good indication of what may hatch - coupled with knowledge of what time of year you are on.

Mostly, it's a gauge on how long a float may take and/or for the rest of us walk and waders, how safely a river may be waded. Yep, the comparisons are useful.

Don't necessarily want low flows, though it makes for easy wading. Normal flows is what you want. Normal is different for every river. Yes, while I do like lower flows, in the past few years, low flows often mean warmer stream temps, and stressed fish. Be careful of "too low" flows, and monitor the stream temps!

Have fun!
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