Trout Fishing the Bow River! PHOTO GALLERY
With my fishing partner gone on a cross Canada tour to Newfoundland, it looks like I get the Bow River to myself for awhile. I sure am going to miss the great photos that he takes, inside joke there folks. We went out one last time before he left town for a month or so. I opted to use spinner bait exclusively yesterday but why only spinner bait and nothing else. Why not a plug of some sort? Why only spinners? The river has come alive with bugs of all sorts. Grasshoppers are flying into the water by the truck load now. Bugs, bugs and more bugs. So I choose to fish with bug imitations, I think you might see why I was using only the spinner yesterday.
There are so many styles and types of spinners available these days that a guy/girl could spend a ton of money on spinners alone. I personally pack lots of spinners with me wherever I fish. Not the junk you sometimes see on the Wall Mart shelves, but the high quality spinners you find in your local tackle store or by searching the internet perhaps. I use colors hardly anybody I talk to uses, and I guess that’s good for me because when I go shopping for tackle I find what I am looking for almost every time. Ok here is one color a guy should always keep in his box but don’t tell your friends this. Yeah right, like that’s going to happen. White, I know you have never even considered it but Rainbows can’t help themselves on this color.
Yesterday I chose to fish a spinner called Bangtail which has a long body and is dressed, has white hair around the hook. This spinner also has holographic tape on the spinner blade for that added flash and attraction trout of all kinds cannot resist.This spinner has no sonic capabilities added to it but seems to hammer trout none-the-less. Here is one other tip I have for you, cast this lure hard and far upstream and let the current of the river work to your advantage. Let this lure bounce on the bottom a couple of times and then gently pick it up reeling slowly as well. You will be yelling FISH ON more than once a day.
