Dogpound Creek 2015

[rycoma]

Well made it out for the first time this year. It was a tough day for sure. Low clear water made it very tough. Saw a few fish had a couple strikes. Just a heads up there is next to no snow anywhere around the river. It may be a tough summer for this little creek as it usually relies on the snow melt to bring up the water level.

[upstream]

Thanks for the feed back, was thinking to hit dog pound yesterday but changed our mind in the morning... Went to elsewhere in the prairie, noticed same thing... Low clear water, had no luck

[rycoma]

Yeah a lot of the "deep" holes out there really aren't that deep. Not looking good unless we get a lot of run off from the foothills

[Renegade J]

I tried the Dogpound as well yesterday with similar results: saw some fish, but couldn't catch any. In case anyone else is wondering, the fallen timber and burnt timber still have a lot of ice. The RDR is also low and didn't produce for us yesterday.

[bigdirt]

I was out on opening day. Water is low and clear as mentioned. Was eye opening to see how far the under cut banks really go. Found fish behind structure. With the wind noodling might have been a more successful tactic.


Only this little cutie to hand

[270WINCHESTER]

Originally Posted by bigdirt

I was out on opening day. Water is low and clear as mentioned. Was eye opening to see how far the under cut banks really go. Found fish behind structure. With the wind noodling might have been a more successful tactic.


Only this little cutie to hand

Is that not brown trout?? Never heard of there being cutthroat trout in the dogpound??

I was out there for the afternoon 2 days ago. I couldn't believe how low and clear the water was. Like said above, the deep holes didn't seam that deep. I managed about 6 brook trout, all on a olive bugger. Sure hope the water levels increase with the run off, or it may get scary low.

[ÜberFly]

LoL Yup someone needs to brush up on his fish IDs!!

Originally Posted by 270WINCHESTER

Is that not brown trout??

[BBT]

I think he said cute not cutt

[rycoma]

I know two guys that need to brush up on their reading skills

[spinN'flyfish]

hey guys what's the best fly to use this time of year?any BMO's yet?

[270WINCHESTER]

New personal best on the dogpound today

[fishead]

Originally Posted by spinN'flyfish

hey guys what's the best fly to use this time of year?any BMO's yet?

For gods sake spinN can't you just enjoy the thread and stop asking?

[rycoma]

Beauty fish. After going through my fishing journals. Last weekend was the earliest I have ever been out on the dog pound. I'll give it a couple more weeks before I get back out there.

[goldscud]

That brown needs some groceries. Hopefully there is bunch of minnows to eat

[spinN'flyfish]

Originally Posted by fishead

For gods sake spinN can't you just enjoy the thread and stop asking?

was going to say great pictures to the folks out there. I'm guess a wooly bugger would work well, was just asking if there were any hatches, calm your jigs, I'll stop asking jeez, I'm just a fly beginner

[Chief16]

Originally Posted by fishead

For gods sake spinN can't you just enjoy the thread and stop asking?

He started the thread so it's his thread to ask whatever he wants on it

[spinN'flyfish]

Originally Posted by Chief16

He started the thread so it's his thread to ask whatever he wants on it

hey i can stop asking if you folks mind, and this thread was rycoma's report

[rycoma]

Ah I started the thread who the hell cares

[Chief16]

Originally Posted by rycoma

Ah I started the thread who the hell cares

Well, now I look like an idiot

[abff]

Reading this thread motivated me to get off my butt to go and fish this body of water. When I got to the access point of the the creek I wanted to fish I came upon a dreadful sigh. Another vehicle parked at the site I wanted to fish. The nerve of those people and here I thought I had made a reservation. (sarcasm) With 40 mins of driving time under my belt and little time to fish before sunset, I didn't particularly feel like finding a new spot. I ended up taking a gamble and going down stream. If I were first at the site, I probably would have preferred going upstream with the low clear water but obviously the other anglers had first dibs.

Anyways, I ended up catching my first brown of the year in a deep pool I stumbled upon downstream.



I guess I chose correctly to go downstream, as I didn't see the other anglers until sunset.

[fishead]

Originally Posted by spinN'flyfish

was going to say great pictures to the folks out there. I'm guess a wooly bugger would work well, was just asking if there were any hatches, calm your jigs, I'll stop asking jeez, I'm just a fly beginner

Really?
My apologies SpinN, your trolling just gets a little tiresome sometimes.

[greatbigdiddy]

Made a quick stop in at Bottrel last night on the way home from fishin another central AB brown trout stream. I was shocked to see what the beavers have done, dozens and dozens of huge old trees all fallen everywhere ..... has the stream running over land for a few hundred meters 3 feet above the original channel .... total mess saw a couple 14 inchers darting for cover at one of the main blockages no takers in the 45 minutes I spent hopping trees and branches and broken barbed wire.

[FlyTheory]

Originally Posted by bigdirt

Only this little cutie to hand

Definitely a cutie, there's nothing wrong with a little brown to keep the skunk off. Great job!

[spinN'flyfish]

Originally Posted by greatbigdiddy

Made a quick stop in at Bottrel last night on the way home from fishin another central AB brown trout stream. I was shocked to see what the beavers have done, dozens and dozens of huge old trees all fallen everywhere ..... has the stream running over land for a few hundred meters 3 feet above the original channel .... total mess saw a couple 14 inchers darting for cover at one of the main blockages no takers in the 45 minutes I spent hopping trees and branches and broken barbed wire.

wow that's a mess,,, beaver ponds are quite a disturbance to the fish habitat which can affect fishing sometimes. Where about did you you see this, campgound, bridge?

[bigdirt]

Must say, of the three browns I have caught in the dp, they have all been the most colorful browns I've seen yet.

[rycoma]

I have to agree. Come to think of it the browns in Alberta seem to have a real butter colour to them as opposed to Minnesota where I grew up

[spinN'flyfish]

from somewhere i learnt that red deer river drainage browns are of the german strain brought here many years back. quite interesting to know, browns aren't native to canada

[damienelliott]

The Browns in the red deer downstream of the dam actually came from the bow river a bunch of years ago. 1000 fished never sexed just dumped in. Then it turned into one of the best dry fly trout rivers in western Canada. But thanks to our top notch esrd there aren't a whole lot of browns left in the red deer. Sry to derail just replying to the above post.

[Renegade J]

I was thinking the same thing about the differences in Brown trout coloration when my buddy caught this brown on the bow last week. No Red at all...

[greatbigdiddy]

Originally Posted by spinN'flyfish

wow that's a mess,,, beaver ponds are quite a disturbance to the fish habitat which can affect fishing sometimes. Where about did you you see this, campgound, bridge?

Yeah right at the botrell campground first 300 meters upstream big mess