 When I’m floating I use a # 3 or a # 4 because this size of spinner has enough weight to make it spin properly when bottom bouncing. When I fish from shore I’ll use a little bigger spinner as I can cast further out into the river. Probably my favorite color pattern is …
April 2006 archive
Apr 25
Tackle – Blue Fox
Next I would like to talk about the Blue Fox Vibrax Minnow Spinners or what I like to call my all-time Brown Trout lure. These lures cannot be beaten when it comes to fishing for HUGE trout on the Bow River. Tom. B and I were out on the Bow one mid-summer evening in 2004. …
Apr 24
Tackle – Blue Fox
I cannot believe how many massive Browns I have caught over the years on this particular color combination. This lure looks like a sucker minnow which are an abundant food source in the Bow River and big Browns seem to annihilate these large minnow imitations. This lure is a body of a minnow with a …
Apr 23
Tackle – Panther Martin
Have you ever been into your local tackle shop and started looking around for the next best fishing lure on the market, I know I have and sometimes you leave frustrated and dejected. This is the main reason why I am writing this article, to try and eliminate some of these frustrations while shopping at …