Useful Links
Because this page has been doing a lot of growing lately, it has been decided to break it into 3 categories: Friends - individuals who have contributed to the club or flyfishing in general, Organizations - that contribute to the sport of flyfishing in an around Alberta, and Destinations - sites that help you plan a trip. These sites are not mutually exclusive as there is significant overlap between categories. If you have any suggestions don't hesitate to drop (or cast) us a line.
Friends
Don Andersen is more than a tier of Kevlar Flies. He also knows the whole Rocky Mountain House trout scene intimately and builds quality fly rods. Check out his page at: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dmanders/
Mike Montieth is one of those die-hard fly fishers that combines his 'habit' with his computer skills. He has created a web site that has information that is of interest to Fly fishers from the "Chosen" city. http://flyfish-edmonton.webs.com/
Dave Jensen came and gave us a talk about the South Ram River. He is doing some important work trying to get a count on the river system's fish. If you want to know more about the Ram system and Dave's on going exploits check out www.flyfishalberta.com
Clive Schaupmeyer gave us an excellent presentation on outdoor photography and has quite a track record on setting certain government organizations straight on the particulars of sports angling. http://members.shaw.ca/clives/main2002.htm
Barry White, one of the club's members, has been guiding on the Bow River since 1977. You can check out his page at: http://www.bowriver.com
Darren MacEachern, handles the hosting for our website and has been very helpful to the Edmonton Trout Fishing Club. He is a proffesional fly tier, and he also has a website called "Piscator Flies" with some fabulous bargains. Check out his website at http://www.piscatorflies.com. Have you seen a Rio Gold Flyline for $55.00 lately??
Mussio Ventures are the people who make those map books for BC and Alberta. These books point out some interesting fishing areas and provide maps to access them. Their BC lake books also hydrological maps to the lakes. They were nice enough to donate some books to our club. You can check out their site at: http://www.backroadmapbooks.com
If you are interested in the fish and game of Alberta as a whole, you should be aware of the Alberta Fish and Game Association. http://www.afga.org It is entering its tenth decade of serving Alberta sportsmen.
Canada's Recreational Fishing Awards, 20th Anniversary - If you know of anyone who has done outstanding work for fishery enhancement, nominate him or her for this prestigious, accross Canada award. The link can be found here:- http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/rfa-ppr/awards-prix_e.htm
Alberta 2010 Fishing Regulations - A must read!!...http://www.albertaregulations.ca/fishingregs/
Calgary's Hook and Hackle club has almost been around as long as our club. They have some excellent information about fishing the Bow. Visit their site at: http://hookandhackleclub.org/
The Northern Lights Flytiers and Fishers - Trout Unlimited Edmonton. ( These two organizations have now amalgamated to one) are another Edmonton fly-fishing group and one of our partners in Muir Lake. Visit them at: http://www.nlft.org/
Trout Unlimited Alberta Council is found at: http://www.tucanada.org/TUC_chapters_AB.shtml
The very useful site of Phil Rowley, Fly Craft Angling is a huge data base of knowledge for tips, knots and flytying. The site is located at http://www.flycraftangling.com, and if you want to really get to the information, sign up and become a member. It is free and well worth it.
To help educate the youngsters of today to be more aware of the outdoors, Robert Bateman has a website called "Get to know your Wildlife Neighbours". It is located at http://www.gettoknow.ca/, and it has a fabulous amount of wildlife information, pertinent to us all. There is a "Kids" button and an "Adults" one. Very cool...............
Another very useful site is the Alberta Fly Fishing Forum. A huge data base of knowledge provided by Trout Fly Fishers. This site is located at http://www.setbb.com/albertaflyfish/index.php?mforum=albertaflyfish
The Government. Sustainable Resource Development - Fishing in Alberta. Please follow the link at http://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/fishwildlife/fishingalberta/default.aspx. Full of useful information.
Alberta Fisheries Management Round Table for details related to stakeholder input to the Alberta Fisheries Management Branch programs and policies at the Sustainable Resources Management Department website (http://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/fishwildlife/fishingalberta/albertafisheriesroundtable.aspx).
Alberta Outdoorsmen message board for Fisheries at the Sports Scene Publications Inc. website (http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/).
Local Lakes For a list of local lakes and directions to get to them, this link is invaluable. It is the Flyfish Edmonton Website and can be found at http://flyfish-edmonton.webs.com/edmontonlakes.htm All listings are current and up to date, and will help you choose where to fish locally.
Alberta Environments' http://environment.alberta.ca/ web page has links to the Fish and Wildlife division and a wealth of information about enjoying this great province.
George Anderson, from Livingston Montana, is a noted writer, angler, guide and has a full-service flyshop. Headed to the the other promised land? Help plan your trip via a visit to his site http://www.yellowstoneangler.com/ .
Going stream fishing in Alberta and wondering what shape the water is in? Well then check out Alberta Environment's http://www.environment.alberta.ca/apps/basins/default.aspx for the latest in river flows. You can also get a chart, in pdf format, of Bow River flows for various times of the year for the Bow Carseland area. It is a handy chart because it shows high an low flows (upper and lower quartile values) for the river. Just click here.
If you want news about fishing in Western Canada, the Virtual Flyshop is an excellent source. Once you get to the main site just work your way down to the Western Canada regional news.
Jim Powlesland, from Calgary, has a site with a number of excellent links to other fishing related pages. Visit it at: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~powlesla/personal/fishing/index.html
Saskatchewan Tourism new Fishing Website (http://www.sasktourism.com/things-to-do/saskatchewan-fishing).
