Category: Gone Fishing

A Midsummer Days Get Away.

massive-rainbow-trout-bow-river- july 2016

  My Staycation Fishing Holiday It has been quite some time since I had summer holidays, so this year I decided it was time to take a vacation, or rather a “Staycation” as people like to call it. To me, a staycation is a place that is not so far from home, but when you …

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The Maiden Voyage of 2016

float-fishing-the-lower-bow-river

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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Trout Fishing The Waters Of The Bow River

A Look Back On the 2015 Fishing Season The 2015 fishing season started early for me this year. The mild winter we had in Calgary lead to anxious anglers wanting to wet a line before the rest of the crowd dashed towards the banks, eager to set the hook into a willing trout’s yapper. I …

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Time to Float The Bow River Once Again

March 10th 2015 at MacKinnon Flats

  Winter, what winter? It has been a long time since I witnessed a winter this mild after living in Calgary all my life. Usually it is still cold and fishing is entirely out of the question, float fishing is anyway. I would guess to say this has been our warmest winter on record, so …

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