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Cutthroat Dreams: Fly Fishing the Elk River B.C.

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A fat Elk River westslope cutthroat

If you are looking for breathtaking scenery, relatively low angling pressure and great fishing, consider grabbing your passport and heading north to British Columbia. Learn about fishing the fabled Elk River near Fernie B.C. at the next Flathead TU chapter meeting on Nov. 18 at 7pm. Meetings are held at the MFWP conference room 490 N. Meridian in Kalispell.  Refreshments will be served and extravagant door prizes awarded. Our featured speaker will be Kelly Laatsch, full-time guide and manager of the St. Mary Fly Shop in Cranbrook, B.C. You won’t want to miss this one. For more information, call chapter president Larry Timchak at 406-250-7473

Elk River selenium pollution
The Elk River is undergoing changes due to selenium pollution from coal mining upstream (click for big)

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Kelly has been fly fishing and tying flies since he was a boy and has been guiding in southeastern British Columbia since 1992. Kelly will share his experience and knowledge of fishing for native westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout in the Elk River. The Elk has been called the premier native cutthroat fishery in the world and it is one of the few places left where it is legal to catch large native bull trout.

For information on pollution in the Elk River due to coal mining, read this recent article from the Globe and Mail.

Elk Valley watershed: Why has this unfolding disaster been ignored?