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Saturday Seminar - March 29

Seminar for this Saturday. Should be a great one!

Bull Trout Flies

Lance Chalmers returns to show us a few of his spectacular flies for Bulls.
If you want to learn how to tie really big bugs for Bulls, this is your seminar!

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars.

All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon. There is no charge and no pre-registration required. Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

Saturday Seminar - February 16

This Saturday's seminar.....

Bull Trout Flies Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Lance Chalmers ties some of the coolest Bull Trout flies we have ever seen. He, and his fishin’ buddies spend a bunch of time chasing Bulls. Should be one of the year’s best seminars.

All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon.  There is no charge and no pre-registration required.  Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

Today's Seminar-Bull Trout Flies

Brent tied up some of his Bull Trout creations for the Saturday bunch today. Few photos of the "goings-on" as wel as some of the flies......

Saturday gang taking in the seminar

Brent tying away

Bull Trout Bugs

Next Saturday, Sock for Esox (Pike Flies) with Kevin Peterson. He'll tie a bunch of his go-to flies for the toothy critters.

2010 Year In Review Part 3

Some freshwater stuff of note from the past year......

Tim Swailes with a nice Babine Buck. Very deep fish for it's length.

Jim Embrey with guide, Joe Buck and a fat, foam bug Brown.

Wanna catch Brown trout close to 30" long, on #10 Fat Alberts, in a spring creek that's 15 feet wide? Southern Chile is the place for you! Maureen Gifford with a dry fly Brown.

Frank Somer, on his very first Steelhead trip. None of those two handed rods for this guy. He kicked their asses with the single hand stick all week.

Julia Hirst with her very first ever Brown Trout (actually first ever FISH!) caught on a fly rod. Took a day off hiking the rain forests and photographing Condors to outfish her husband this day in Chile.

Bert Kutos with a big Bull. Had to self photograph with the camera on a rock. Sorry about the photo quality but had to add to this post. It's a really nice Southern Alberta Bull.

Darren Wright with a pretty Babine Buck. Darren is one of the guides at Babine Norlakes Lodge. He qualifies for this post as he was on his day off and we were performing "research and development".

I might as well admit that "the bastard" stuck this one right behind me!

Flies From the Bull Trout Seminar

Some of the flies Brent tied in the Seminar on Bull Trout Flies....

Saturday Morning Seminars

February 20, 10 AM Country Pleasures

BULL TROUT FLIES

We decided to re-do this seminar. We had one back in December but a lot of people were stuck in a blizzard. Brent Piche will show his some of his beastly flies for Bull Trout. A popular seminar last year with some pretty cool tying techniques.

All attendees will be entered in a draw for the flies tied at the seminar.

SATURDAY SEMINAR-DECEMBER 5

BULL TROUT FLIES

Brent will be tying some of his "beastly" flies for Bull Trout.

A popular seminar last year, shows some really cool tying techniques.

All attendees will be entered in a draw for the flies tied at the seminar.

This is the last seminar until after New Years.

Bull Trout After School

Here's a few pictures sent in from a couple fishing buddies.
They headed out to a "secret location" looking for some bullies.

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-Nice pics guys, thanks for the email!

Some More Albertan Cutthroat

Went fishing in the afternoon yesterday. It rained like mad, but the fish couldn't be happier. We lucked out on a Green Drake hatch that lasted about an hour, and the fishing was just nutty. Here's some more photos. We'll add the last tomorrow.

A pocket water bully.

Caity's very pretty Cutthroat.

A few photos

A few photos from a rainy, rainy day.
More tomorrow!

Last Couple Days on the Bow River and in the High Country

Been a good couple days, including possibly the worst sunburn of my entire life.

I finally got to fish my Helios 3 weight, and it is great for small stream cutthroat.

Get out and get fishing, Bow River fish are turbo charged, Cutthroat are looking up and the Bullys are aggresive. Some of the best fishing of the year!

- Brent

Highwood River-July 20

Just back from a long day at the Highwood River, fished very well for both Bulls and Cutts.
Clarity is great, Stimulators and good old Humpy's worked well for Cutts while large, light streamers were very effective for Bulls.
More information and pictures will be posted on Wednesday.

We noticed a large amount of evidence of the use of bait (recent use) so remember if you see someone who is illegally using bait call it in, the number can be found on the back of your license.
The more information you can collect, the better this includes license plates, physical description, location and even the type of bait they are using.

-C.

400kms of driving, for fishing 45 minutes away!

Yesterday hurt. Rain and more rain. Drove down to the Oldman in hopes that the rain would have stopped and the river clear. It wasn't. The rain was still pouring (to the point that the road was in brutal shape).

Seems like the Oldman got the worst of it for weather, as it was pure and utter mud.

Drove upstream a bit and followed the mud, before finally giving up and heading back north.

Ended up on another stream, and headed to a favourite spot, to only have the rain start pouring again on us. Luckily we had a back up plan, and made our way there.

400 km's of driving to end up fishing an area 45 minutes from home.

I guess it didn't suck all that bad. (sorry bout the bad quality, the zoom on the camera aint great)

A pretty good bully on a brand new fly. Makes up for the long drive pretty quickly