Fishing Reports

Spring 2025

It's that special time of year again here in Southern Alberta, when the land finally breaks free of its dusty brown shackles and life returns to the prairies and foothills. Tender green spears begin to pierce the dead, desiccated leaf litter with increasing vigour as each warming day packed with that old Alberta sunshine jacks up the plant life just like Black Label Ice jacks up the Oilers fans. Even the glass and steel landscape of downtown Calgary sees spring stirrings as psychotic Canada Geese infiltrate city blocks looking for nesting sites in all the wrong places & battle hardened drug users for turf. You really don't want to turn down the wrong alley on your way to do a little urban angling and find yourself in the middle of a street brawl between cobra chickens and fentanyl dealers. 

 

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Fishing Report - Early Winter
Early Winter   Logan hooked up on a late season Bow float. It was a picture perfect fall season here in Southern Alberta, with mild temperatures and a few strong September precipitation drops keeping foliage green well into October. Late...
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Fishing Report - Late Spring
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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Fishing Report - Early Spring
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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