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The 2016 Trout Fishing Season Kicks off With a Big Bang!

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A Shootout at the Bow River Saloon! The 2016 fishing season started for me today with a bang, a BIG bang. Chris and his father Dan were my first clients of the year. The weather here in Calgary was rainy and the forecast for today called for more of the same. Sometimes when it rains …

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A Young Girl’s First Fish

A child catches her first bow river trout

Kids, fun and floating the Lower Bow River I awoke on Sunday to the sweet sounds of spring robins chirping out my window. Nothing quite beats the sounds of robins in the spring time. With new young in the nest now, I see the mother gathering worms from the freshly watered lawn out the back …

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The Maiden Voyage of 2016

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Taking The Rapala’s To Brown Town With the weather unseasonably warm and the water gin clear, I decided it was time to shake the winter cob webs off the Saturn watercraft and take her for the first float trip of the year. I spent two previous days in Banff taking pictures and unwinding from the …

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Bow River Boat Launch Report

March 31, 2016 I was down exploring the boat launches this past weekend. I have been dying to get in the boat and float the river. With all this lovely weather we are having, I think it is way past due for me! The ideal float right now would be Policeman’s Flats to McKinnon Flats …

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