I find the further you get out of the city limits the less whitefish you catch and then it becomes all trout. I’m not quite sure why this happens and if anyone knows out there I’d be interested in the answer. Any how, as we are just past the man bridge at Deer Run I suggest my pal Tom throws his Panther Martin into a very good looking spot along the bank. He put his lure on the exact spot I recommended and started to reel away from the bank slowly and then BOOM, a huge Rainbow hammers his gear and takes a flying leap 2 feet out of the water. Unbelievable that he was able to put his lure on the precise spot I was looking at. As a result he pulled out a massive 22 inch Rainbow trout. And things never really slowed down from that point on.

We hauled in a whole bunch of smaller to medium sized trout along the way down the river as well but all along I could not seem to manage to catch anything sizeable. Then we reached a spot on the Bow where it comes from a shallow area into a long deep channel. As we pass over the shallow area I always pull in my lure and wait until we get into deeper water, then I cast my lure into the shallow drop and slowly reel towards the dingy. On Thursday I did the same thing and low and behold a 22 inch Brown trout hammers my Panther Martin and came flying out of the water which is unlike Browns to do here. Usually the Browns here bulldog and roll to try and shake the hook free, but not this guy he flew around. We ended up catching about 20 fish each and my arm felt like it was going to fall off. These fish here are not your every day fish, they are some of the hardest fighting fish anywhere in the world.

Well it was an excellent weekend of fishing for me and my friends. My buddy Kevin and I went out to the Lower Kananaskis Lake to fish for the big Bull Trout that live here. We could have picked a better day for it as the weather was hot and sunny all day long. It only takes an hour and a half to get to the Lower Lake and the drive is absolutely worth it. The Lower Kananaskis Lake is located rite in the Rocky Mountains and is one of the most beautiful lakes around the Calgary area. My Co-worker Russ has a cabin rite on the lake and kindly offered to take me out on his boat for some Rainbow on the Upper Lake. We got to the visitor information centre and I called Russ on the phone and there was no answer so we proceeded to go to the lake and start fishing.

At this point Kevin caught his first Bull Trout of the day on a green jig. I wasn’t having much luck but Kevin seemed to have the rite gear on. Not long after Kevin caught his first fish he had his second one on but this time the trout took him to the bottom into some dead wood and snapped him off which was to bad as it looked like a large fish. Oh well at least you had something on the end of your line Kevin. We then decided to take a drive to see if we could find Rusty’s cabin but to no avail. Kevin suggested we go to one of his honey hole’s to see if we could catch a big fat Bull Trout there. We got to his spot and it looked very promising so I threw on a Williams wobbler and gave it a try. Three casts later and I hear my name being called and it’s Russ, so we ended up packing up and going to Rusty’s cabin to pick up the boat.

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