Fishing Reports
After a slow and snowy start, spring rolled up on us without warning like a lifted RAM with a F*ck Trudeau sticker doing a buck-forty-five down the middle lane on Deerfoot. A couple warm days in early May brought the...
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Back To Brown Heavy March snowfall put some much needed water into the system as we move into shoulder season. ES2 season opener is underway. Swingin' flies under sunny skies is producing healthy, chromed-up spring trout. It may look like...
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Hot or Not So Much Despite a wild temperature variance of nearly 60C in just three weeks, winter fishing has been steady as she goes! Some rare good news on the K-Country logging controversy. Now how about some dang snow?...
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So far, it's been the winter that wasn't, here in Southern Alberta. By now we've all noticed the snow MIA, dudes wearing beach slides with basketball shorts to the grocery store, and the general lack of any cold. All at a time when we should be going Hunger Games over the last bag of sidewalk salt at Canadian Tire while shivering under layers of fleece & down. Foggy glasses, dripping noses, yellow snow; all those traditional Calgary winter side effects that are starting to feel a bit nostalgic are missing. At least you can still disappear a half-litre of hand cream into your desiccated jerky skin like the good old days. Winter weather in Canada is supposed to miserably bad, not miserably nice.
Most drift boats in the Calgary area have completed their annual migration to overwintering holes in garages and storage yards, and fair-weather anglers have stashed the waders in favor of the tying bench or the quaint comforting glow of Hockey Night in Canada on the 72" Sony. Other guys are stalking large four-legged critters across frozen foothills, or planning trips to find fins in warmer places around the globe. Hole-watchers across the land are weeping tears of joy and gassing up the two strokes as the ice tightens its grip on lakes. However, the all-season angler on the Bow knows that some of the most rewarding (and least crowded) fishing happens during the dark days of winter.
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