Then Kevin and Russ showed up and made their first casts and boom, boom, a double header. I saw the way Kevin’s rod was bent over and I knew he had a monster on the go. He finally managed to play this bad boy out and we pulled it out of the water, it was a whopper Bull measuring approximately 30inches and weighing in at about 10-12 pounds. Kevin looked like a little kid in a candy store.

I gently pulled the hook out of this monsters mouth , snapped a quick picture and Kevin then calmly let him go to fight some other angler another day. What an awesome trip out to the Lower Kananaskis Lake once again folks, this for me is what life is all about. Good solid friends and some BIG old trout. Is does not get any better than that. I will keep you all posted on my next fishing excursion. I think the next stop just might be the Crow’s Nest River.

Hello to all my fishing friends out there, it’s been a really wet week here in Calgary and the mighty Bow River is very high and fast right now so it’s not fishable right now. But that’s not to say we can not go to other places to fish. That’s the cool thing about fishing, if one lake or river is not producing very many fish or it’s just not fishable at all for whatever reason, you can always go some where that is. Crawling Valley happens to be just that place for me and this Friday and Saturday were no exceptions. Friday I went out alone to see what was happening on the reservoir as I was planning to take my friend Tom out on Saturday. I was able to catch a couple of nice Walleye that were around the 20 inch mark. So with that said I figured I would call Tom and let him know that we were going to fish crawling instead of the Bow.

Tom’s from Winnipeg and when I spoke to him he was gung-ho on the idea of fishing for walleye as he has not caught walleye here in Alberta yet. We met up at 11:00am and we were on our way to one of the best walleye fisheries around. When we got out to the reservoir their were some people fishing near my honey hole but they were not actually right in it, so I was happy and we proceeded to set up and get down to business. Not long after I get my pickerel rig set up and on the bottom, I see my rod tip moving up and down with a welcomed visitor biting on my minnows. Low and behold it’s my long toothed friend Mister Walleye.

The walleye here at Crawling Valley are very hard fighters and the first fish today fell into this category. I took my time with the fish and got him to shore, gently removed the barbless hook from his mouth and quickly snapped a photo. Back into the reservoir he goes to fight another day as this fishery is catch and release only. Some other bait’s that work well here is leaches, worms, nitro worms and smelts. So whatever you prefer to use for bait here it’s going to work. Tom caught his first walleye and was tickled pink. All in all a great day out at Crawling Valley.