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October 21, 2007 --- Crowsnest River and Burmis Lake, Alberta

It's nine thirty a.m., and Glenn and I drop Frank off at the "Orange Bridge", while we drive up to the almost-frozen-over Burmis Lake. Glenn takes the stretch immediately upstream from the "Silver Bridge", and I cut across the TU Lease to again revist some old familiar water. I manage a couple of nice fish, before realizing that my camera's memory card was full, so I circle back to the truck to replenish the digital film, and then fish back up behind where Glenn had been (and, as it turns out, behind a local fly fisher whom I have a chat with). I somehow get mesmerized with trying to catch a whitefish from a perfect pool full of them; yeah, not so much. By three p.m., we're all back at the truck seeking shelter from the up-to seventy-km wind blasts; Frank got a handful of trout, and Glenn got several handfuls, with some kewl video footage to boot. Frank loves his dry-fly fishing, and he was in fact able to land a trout on a dry this morning. I saw a few rises here and there, as did Glenn, but neither of us attempted the art of angling with the dry in late October. Glenn and I had seen a rise in the tiny local lake in the morning, so before we go home, we amble over to the now-ice-free acre of water, where Glenn fires out a little beadhead backswimmer pattern, and with expert direction from Frank spotting up on the cliffs, he hooks and lands a trout that is WAY too big for this piece of water; probably 'cause she's a brood hen put out to pasture?? It gets up to a tropical six degrees again today. The wind blows us into the Subway at Nanton by late afternoon...
Ammo
Ammo
Rise?!
Rise?!
Signage
Signage
Representative Sample
Representative Sample
Decaying Leaf, Underwater
Decaying Leaf, Underwater
Burmis Bridge and Riffle
Burmis Bridge and Riffle
Burmis Lake
Burmis Lake
Grin!
Grin!
Angling
Angling
Burmis Lake Surprise
Burmis Lake Surprise
Footballish
Footballish
Nosey
Nosey
Signage
Signage
Wild Turkeys near Burmis Lake
Wild Turkeys near Burmis Lake