Thirteen More Sleeps

[Daceminnow]

Everybody geared up and ready to go play in our flowing water playgrounds? we sure are. :sHa_shakeshout:

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[nevercatchmuch]

:sHa_shakeshout:

[Alberta Bigbore]

Outstanding pics

[BobLoblaw]

Really, Dace???

You know that posting pics like that will just make me more excited & make those days drag by!!!

Yeah, I'm SO ready!

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Hopefully the creeks won't be blown out for opening day...

[kissarmygeneral]

Great stuff. Can't wait!

[Dust1n]

Heading down that way also! Cant wait for some scrappy cutts

[Guitarplayingfish]

Awesome pictures, I am so excited for opening day.. Just stocked up with 90 flies for the summer season =)

[Steven Noel]

Drove over the Ram and North Ram as well as some of their respective tributaries today after a weekend of fishing an (open) ES2 stream. Water conditions were better than I expected, perhaps the snow isn't coming off the mountains yet.

[npauls]

Awesome pictures, I am so excited for opening day.. Just stocked up with 90 flies for the summer season =)

I will make room for opening day to join you if you want. I need to get out with the bug sticks sometime in the near future.

[Daceminnow]

well had a look at the flowing playground in my back yard this afternoon. she's rocking and on a steady rise. level reports from the boys out of the oldman drainage from a couple days ago prior to yesterdays storms was not good either. with a record snow pack up top there's much more to come down. june 16th gonna be tough fish i'm thinking. but what else is new. hurry up and wait just like the past couple openers.

Dace

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[Steven Noel]

You're making me sad Dace.

[icefever]

With the snow pack and a couple more days of rain maybe we might see a repeat of 2005

[Steven Noel]

With the snow pack and a couple more days of rain maybe we might see a repeat of 2005

Would you mind enlightening me as per what occurred in 2005, I was ten at the time and my alpine stream fishing was lacking.

[icefever]

It was considered to be a one in 100 year flood, destroyed fishing for a while, a lot of damage to personal property and streams, happened on the Fathers Day Long Weekend. Was out camping in it, will never forget.

[tacklerunner]

[QUOTE=BobLoblaw;1464292]Really, Dace???

You know that posting pics like that will just make me more excited & make those days drag by!!!

Yeah, I'm SO ready!

[QUOTE]

You're both to blame! 13 sleeps? How's a guy to get any sleep with these pics running around in his brain???

[Guitarplayingfish]

I will make room for opening day to join you if you want. I need to get out with the bug sticks sometime in the near future.

Well, Im heading out Friday camping.. Gonna spend the night making lunch stuff for quick meals.. Staying out all of sat, starting fish at 6 AM and heading home sunday for Fathers Day. You in?!

[slivers86]

hmmm.... :fighting0030:

[Daceminnow]

it doesn't look promising. i'm heading into the high country to see what i can find other than snow.

Dace

[Daceminnow]

well had a look at the flowing playground in my back yard this afternoon. she's rocking and on a steady rise. level reports from the boys out of the oldman drainage from a couple days ago prior to yesterdays storms was not good either. with a record snow pack up top there's much more to come down. june 16th gonna be tough fish i'm thinking. but what else is new. hurry up and wait just like the past couple openers.

Dace

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same section of river as pictured above from 2 weeks ago. these pictures were taken this evening. up significantly over night. way more water coming down now. hurry, hurry, hurry up and wait.

Dace

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[30lbpike]

I think you jinxed us with your first post...lol

[tacklerunner]

Dace,

That section's flow rate peaked at 1091.214 m3/second at 6:00 AM on Sunday (June 24) and rose 2 metres in 24 hrs.

THEN IT BLEW OUT!!!

By 10:00 AM flow was down to 15.152 m3/second and water level dropped 3.5 metres.

When you took the photo is was down to 15.117 m3/s and and water levels remained the same.

Would have been a sight to see that morning.

p.s. Normal discharge this time of year is 15 - 40 m3/second for that section.

[slivers86]

used to like sitting on the bank above woodhaven in okotoks as a teen doing what teens do and listening to the roar of the swollen flooding sheep. Sounded like a freight train in 2006 :)