Not fished or flossed but got a few cool fish today. Every October the irrigation authorities open the weirs so that the canals draw down and don't freeze up and I assume it prevents the dams and levees from being destroyed by ice. Trout unlimited runs a volunteer fish removal from the canal system in southern Alberta and really we just targeted a section about 300 meters long and didn't bother with the remaining 40 km... So I can only guess that a lot of fish are going to get eaten by birds in the next few days. I would estimate in our first pass we got about 500 fish.
Anyways, most of the fish were minnows and suckers and very small, but a few bigger burbot and even a 19 inch brown was in a deeper pool.
Some of the volunteers doing the fun part...
The big fish of the day... This girl needs to go on weight watchers.
Me being a goof...
And a slippery little burbot...