Riverkeeper

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Flyfisher.
Fly Tyer.
Trout Unlimited Canada.

I have kept the rivers inside me.

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Black and Peacock Spider. #flytying #flyfishing Tied on a nymph hook (size 16)

Warm morning on the river. A beaver for company. Lost a brown which I would have landed if I used a net. That fish and a smaller one took a size 14 streamer hook pattern with the working name of 'Bill'. As in hackle that resembles the hairdo of Bill the Cat. #rivers #flytying #flyfishing

canadianraptorconservancy.com

Canadian Raptor Conservancycanadianraptorconservancy.com

Calm morning and water is a bit higher. Blue Heron keeping a level eye on me. Two experimental flies on offering today - which I realized I didn't photograph last night. On my way here I was thinking about silk lines and HL Leonard cane rods.. #rivers #flyfishing

www.riverflies.org

The Riverfly Partnershipwww.riverflies.org The Riverfly Partnership is a network of organisations empowering citizen scientists to monitor invertebrate life in their rivers, producing long-term data sets that indicate water quality.

www.graylingsociety.net

The Grayling Societywww.graylingsociety.net The Grayling Society, promoting conservation, awareness and angling for grayling, also known as 'the lady of the stream' a true game fish.

Watching an older gent wave magic from his cane rod. #flyfishing #traditional I think it was a case of watching someone who has forgotten more than I'll ever know.

www.ontarioriversalliance.ca

Ontario Rivers Alliancewww.ontarioriversalliance.ca We protect, conserve, and restore healthy river ecosystems.

www.ontariostreams.on.ca

Home www.ontariostreams.on.ca

cwcr.ca/our-issues/

Our Issues - Coalition for the West Credit Rivercwcr.ca OUR ISSUES The Environmental Study Report (ESR) approved by the Honourable Jeff Yurek, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP), was deficient in the following ways Brook Trout and t...

smallchangefund.ca/project/save...

Save the West Credit River - Small Change Fundsmallchangefund.ca The West Credit River is home to one of the few remaining self-sustaining native Brook Trout populations in Southern Ontario. This thriving population is at risk from imminent discharge of sewage-eff...

Osprey flew over me as I was fishing. Clutched in talons was a very decent brown trout. Well done, bird! Incidently they do drop their food sometimes. I spoke with someone who had a brown land in her backyard as she stood there. The osprey did not try to retrieve her meal. #rivers #wildbirds

Partridge and Purple Spider with a pearl tag. One cast - one fish. Second cast - snagged and lost on backcast in tall grasses behind me. #flyfishing #northcountryspiders

Long weekend for us in Canada - we'll, really it's always a weekend when you're retired - and my fly rod stands in the corner 'ahem-ing' me to go up to the river. Alas, it's a kitchen reno weekend. The trout can rest easy. #flyfishing #housework

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Today is National Women’s Fly Fishing Day, a celebration dedicated to honoring and promoting female fly fishers! Which means I need to finish my work asap so I can get out on the river!

Cooler morning on the river with a Whitetail Doe and twin fawns cavorting in the shallows below me. For 20 minutes they were the complete centre of my attention! One take on a very long-legged soft hackle Mallard and light Cahill (hackle 4x the hook gape). #rivers #flyfishing Wonderful morning.

www.wildtrout.org

Home | Wild Trout Trustwww.wildtrout.org The Wild Trout Trust is a conservation charity that stimulates hands-on, in-the-water projects, helping others to help themselves with habitat improvement in and around rivers and lakes. Anyone caring...

The fish brought to net isn't the measure of success but it does preceed it. What has changed with the taking of the fish - that is, or is not, the measure of success. A few mayflies and a blue heron for company this morning. #rivers #flyfishing

Reading for tonight.. #books #wilderness

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Far too much is written in stone without any input from the rocks.

Tonight's reading. #books #conservation #wilderness #preservation

Lovely overcast morning on the river. No takes, no activity to be seen at all but I was in the groove casting with only an osprey watching me from his perch. #flyfishing #rivers

tucanada.org/2016/12/13/a... An article from a few years back on an Itchen riverkeeper.

A Riverkeepers River Keeper-Ron Holloway - Trout Unlimited Canadatucanada.org A riverkeepers river keeper. It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Ron Holloway, a man whose passion for his river, his fish knew no bounds.

flytyingarchive.com/traditional-...

Traditional Finnish Salmon Fliesflytyingarchive.com Classic Finnish Salmon Flies From left to right Malli 64, Iso Sorsa and Teno 10. These are some of favorite patterns from the old Finnish masters. Finnish salmon flies were usually tied...

Someone DM'ed me about exactly how many flies are in my vest when I'm on the river. A lot less than you might think. While still bearing in mind the water, conditions, insect activity, I carry a small box with a handful of flies. It comes down as often as not, which flies I am confident in that day.

I've been studying traditional salmon flies the last few nights with the thought of taking a pattern and morphing it to something one could present to resident browns. I mean present and conceivably have a take. Many of those flies could be mounted on display on a wall. #flytying #traditionalflies

"Best laid plans...." et cet. Unfortunately never got to cast to the brook trout at the beaver pond yesterday. The closest I got to fishing was to collect a bagful of wild turkey primary feathers and a couple turkey vulture primaries as well. New supplies for fly tying. #flytying

Came across a photograph I took a few years back. Still wondering what the hell the wheat did to be treated this way. #ruralsigns

music.apple.com/ca/album/fan... I'd call this fly tying music!

Fantasie on River Grasses Op. 3 No. 1~7 B Flat Minor by solemnland on Apple Musicmusic.apple.com Album · 2021 · 7 Songs

Sad to say, we missed the Midland Butter Tart Festival. We have to wait 50 weeks till the next edition :[ #buttertarts