Fishing Reports
Season Ender! The 2023 mountain season ends on an icy note as winter shows up unannounced. Construction crews in Cochrane leave their (skid) mark on the Bow River. Whats up with K-Country? Flows remain low across the board. Brown trout...
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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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