I am Happy to report that the fishing on the Bow River has not slowed down much in the past couple of weeks. I was out fishing all weekend and am proud to report that there are still many huge fish being caught. My best this weekend was a 25 inch rainbow on Saturday. I offered to take my brother and law Dean out fishing as he has never floated the Bow River with me yet.

What a trip we had let me tell you, Dean did very well with the Rapalas as well as the Panther Martin’s. His biggest fish of the day came on the Rapala rainbow trout pattern. It was 21 inches long and probably weighed in at around 4-5 pounds. His comment to me as we were fishing the Bow was “this is definitely the way to fish”. I would agree with you Dean, You just cover so much water that you are bound to catch fish that are massive.

I believe that you need to know a lot about fishing to be highly successful. I was looking for that massive Brown trout on Saturday but it was not in the cards I guess, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. All in all it was an awesome day on the river. I only caught 4 or 5 fish that were under 20 inches, and all the rest were Rainbow Trout that were 20 plus inches. I’m not sure but I think I might have made Dean a little envious.

Have no worries Dean, you might be the one banging all those big fatty’s the next time. I would like to tip my hat to all the people at Berkley for designing some of the best fishing lures on the market today. I was using the Berkley Frenzy on Saturday and hammered into some massive Rainbow Trout.

I went out again on Sunday and floated from Policeman’s Flats down to Mackinnon Flats with just as good success as Saturday. I was still on the hunt for that 30 inch Brown Trout I’d been praying for on Saturday. I put the Berkley Frenzy back on the end of my line and casted away. My first fish was a 22 inch Rainbow I banged out on a slow corner. We slowed down just a little and I made a cast into the bank were the moving water was meeting with a calm deep pool. As we floated by I casted into the calm water and sure enough I had a large fish on but could not manage to land him. We were moving slowly enough that I re-casted into the same pool but this time he exploded into the Berkley and I reeled him into the boat. A 23 inch Rainbow Trout was a nice reward for a little intuition.

As we moved a little further down the river I noticed a really nice drop in the water from shallow to deeper water, so I fired my Berkley into the shallower area and slowly reeled it toward the boat. At first I thought it might be holding something but I did not expect it to hold a Monster 26 inch Brown Trout. As I reeled slowly in towards the boat this monster just piled into the minnow bait I had offered him. As a reward for knowing much about where trout like to sit and feed, I was privileged to haul in my biggest Brown Trout of the summer. It’s like the old saying goes, if at first you don’t succeed, try again the next day. Something along those lines. So I encourage all you fisherman out there to get to your nearest tackle store and pick up some big bad Berkley’s, I some how don’t think you will be disappointed. I know I sure won’t be the next time I fish the Bow River with them.