Flood Impact Update

Everyone is certainly wondering how the flood events of June 20 will affect things in the coming weeks.
As we are kind of getting sorted out after last week we wanted to give you some information that we have.

For our Flyfishing school clients: Bow Habitat Station did receive damage from the flooding. Only two of our schools are affected as Bow Habitat expects to be restored for use by July 13. In the next couple of days we will coordinate with Bow Habitat to reschedule new dates to allow students the ability to reschedule. As soon as wee add the new school dates we will e-mail all registered students and update our Blog and facebook.

For our guiding clients: We are contacting booked guiding clients based on chronological booking to advise and allow for reschedule or cancel. We have contacted all clients booked until, and including, July 8. Over the next few days we will be contacting all clients booked from July 9-13.

HOWEVER, TO CLARIFY, BASED ON CURRENT RATE OF FLOW LEVEL DROP WE EXPECT THAT WE MAY SEE FISHABLE CONDITIONS IN AS LITTLE AS 7-10 DAYS.

Three criteria need to be satisfied and we will resume guiding operations:
- Flow levels and turbidity improve to levels that will allow for quality fishing.
- Flow levels and turbidity improve to levels that are safe for clients and guides.
- Infrastructure (boat launches) repaired to a level suitable for use.

Our shop staff and guides have been monitoring what launches we can. We will be working in the coming days for solutions to access issues.

In closing, some of you might remember 2005, where people said we wouldn't fish the river that year, the quality of fishing on the Bow would never be the same, etc. None of these things came true!

Thanks again to all of you who have offered support for the shop and our families!