A Taste of Summer In March
The weekend is finally arrived and I am a very happy camper as a result. The weather here is finally growing nice and I have my tackle box ready to go. I just came back from the Bow River and I am happy to report that the river is ready to fish again. As I arrived at the river I was greeted by two large hawks that were flying low over head. They then gracefully flew across the river and landed in a large birch tree.
I turned to look at the sky above and a massive bald eagle was cruising by my location. He climbed in altitude until he left my line of vision. It looks as though this is a sign of great things to come tomorrow. We will be on the river at 10:00 sharp as we do not want to be late for the inevitable, Large Bow River Trout. The water has a glimmering blue hue to it, which is backdrop by the gorgeous Rocky Mountains that look like you can reach out and touch them from where you stand by rivers edge.
It looks like summer is slowly around the corner here in Alberta which brings copious amounts of joy to my life. The anticipation of launching my inflatable watercraft is almost unbearable. This is the ultimate way to fish a larger river as you can reach spots not normally reachable to the average lazy fisherman who parks his car/truck beside the river’s edge.
We pulled in at around 11:00 A.M and launched the first lure into the cold clear blue water. I twitched the lure slowly and failed to pull a fish on my first cast but I moved up the water column and saw a promising hole. I launched my lure upstream and slowly reeled it close to the bottom, the next thing you know WHAM-O, a monster Brown is battling on the end of my line.I took my time with him and gradually worked him to the shoreline. I gently removed the barbless hook from the bruiser’s mouth and quickly snap a photo then released the big monster back to his home in the river.
This was only the start of the day and we had only been fishing 20 minutes. This was a sign to come as we pulled twelve a piece on Saturday. We fished all day until we were so tired our arms felt as though they were going to fall off. We decided to call our fishing trip a day, but we were determined to go back on Sunday for another date with some of the finest Trout fishing the world has to offer. Please view our video footage at the bottom of this page.
