Fishing Reports
How Low Can You Go? TOD restrictions stayed away for the remainder of peak season but it's not all sunshine & rainbows ahead for trout in ES1. It's a race to the bottom of the graph as water levels do the limbo....
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10 Year Anniversary, Strange Days The rain arrived just in time to pay tribute to the 2013 flood that changed the game. The fishing is hot & so is the water. Opener has cutty crazed anglers heading for the hills....
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The Season Emerges Now keep that rain coming! Alberta's Bow River on a beautiful & smoke free day. For better or worse, it's the spring that thought it was summer here in Southern Alberta. We've largely skipped the pleasantries and...
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If you consider yourself a four season fly angler, there's a satisfaction that you can achieve only by landing a fish while having absolutely no feeling in your hands. Now that the weather here in Southern Alberta is back to normal (cold) after a warm February, there's still a chance to get out there and lose all sensation in your fingers while enjoying a nice day on the water. There are many anglers new to the area these days, and they will all learn like the road-salt stained locals have that winter ends on its own terms here. March is always a wildcard in these parts and can be relatively mild by mid-month, or we get dragged back into the deep freeze and lit up with blizzards into April. Just be glad overnight temperatures are only -20C and not colder. Thankfully, fishing on the Bow is good when we're lucky enough to get it.
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We are closely approaching Peak Autumn here in Southern Alberta, with bright blue skies, balmy daytime temperatures and just the slightest dip of the mercury into frost territory a couple of nights this past month. Our leafy deciduous trees (and larch pines) clearly all got the group text and have colour-coordinated their Fall look. It's a special time to traverse the vibrant landscape as we get a few more kicks at the can before winter shows up, whether you are chasing the thirty-incher that broke you off back in July, or if your priorities have shifted to filling the freezer with game meat. All we need is a little more water.
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