Fly Fishing Bucket List?

[pikeman06]

There ya go. Jeepers didn't know the rainbows got that big in the upper north saskie. Gorgeous fish and a wicked scrap I bet. Hooked up with a nice bull right by Drayton one night about 8 years ago chucking hardware for wallies. He was well over 30 inch. Didn't wanna handle him too much but beautiful thick heavy healthy bull. Never seen one before or after in North saskie but he was ten pounds all day.

[Red Bullets]

Originally Posted by pikeman06

There ya go. Jeepers didn't know the rainbows got that big in the upper north saskie. Gorgeous fish and a wicked scrap I bet. Hooked up with a nice bull right by Drayton one night about 8 years ago chucking hardware for wallies. He was well over 30 inch. Didn't wanna handle him too much but beautiful thick heavy healthy bull. Never seen one before or after in North saskie but he was ten pounds all day.

Before they put in the Bighorn and Brazeau dams the north saskatchewan was a different river. It was still a cold water river all the way to the Edmonton area and lower. Now it transitions from cold water to warm water between Rocky and Drayton. The Clearwater river that enters the North Sask by Rocky is still a cold water river with bull trout so the bulls would be in the NSR too. There used to be bull trout in the Edmonton area. One made the paper back in the mid 1960's. It was 25 lb. bull trout caught at the mouth of Whitemud creek.

Back in David Thompson day (around 1800) he mentions the company men catching lots of mountain trout at the mouth of the Sturgeon river by Ft. Sask. They averaged 8 to 12 lbs.

[Red Bullets]

Originally Posted by pikeman06

There ya go. Jeepers didn't know the rainbows got that big in the upper north saskie.

I think technically that big fish was caught in the Mistaya river where it enters the North Sask. river.

[pikeman06]

They should of never dammed the brazeau in my opinion. You are right about it totally changing the north saskie. Nice clean cold water coming in fairly close to Edmonton. The fluctuations are what concern me. It's pretty radical for what I call a "shallow" river in my opinion. Can't be good for insect life or fish populations in general maybe I'm wrong tho. If it ran deep throughout its course it would be different but that area up from Drayton to rocky is a different river every day. Or what do you guys think?

[Felipe Cora]

Dean River, Columbia River, not very specific, maybe you can also Google

[Sundancefisher]

Originally Posted by Smason

The Mighty Mo ( Missouri river) is a must, some amazing dry fly fishing there.

All over Yellowstone is a must.

[goldscud]

Fortress lake brook trout are in BC, not Alberta

Fortress lake in Kan country has Cutts