Oct 30

General Info- Bow River

The river is usually occupied with Rainbow trout until late November to early December, and then the bigger Brown’s start to make their way back down from their spawning trip upstream. Then in January onward, one can catch both the large Rainbow and big Brown’s that occupy this wonderful trout stream. Some of my friends call me “the extreme fisherman” because I fish in all kinds of weather and at all times of the year.

I would call my good friend Tom and ask him to go fishing and he would laugh his head off and say, “Are you crazy, it’s zero degrees outside”. I’m not crazy, I just love fishing very much and I’m very passionate about this wonderful sport. I will not go out when the weather is too cold, but if there is a warm day in the winter months, it’s the first thing I want to go and do. I’ll keep you posted as to what’s going on in the winter months here on the Bow River.

Oct 25

Gone Fishing- Crawling Valley

This weekend I decided to switch gears and try some Walleye fishing. I went back to my favorite Walleye fishing spot, which is Crawling Valley, to try my luck. We arrived at around 3:30 in the afternoon and set up shop in the honey hole. It’s funny how my heart always starts to beat a little faster as I’m pulling in to the reservoir. I’ve came here some days when 50- 60 fish is normal, however on this particular day I was only able to land 5 Walleye in 3 hours of fishing.

The weather was a little cooler so I think the fish were kind of lying low for the most part. There was also other fisherman there so that never seems to help matters much. However, it’s still nice to go out fishing and relax while catching some fish to boot. I invited my friend Ross to come along and I told him he was almost guaranteed to catch some fish. The whole time we were there Ross never even got a bite. I don’t think he was too happy about that. He bet me he was going to catch the first fish and I took him up on his wager.

Oct 24

Gone Fishing- Crawling Valley

We decided that a Tim Horton’s coffee was going to be the prize. So we both launched our frozen minnows out to the bottom and sat back and waited for the bite. About a half an hour goes by and I see my rod tip moving and someones knocking at the door. So I wait a couple of seconds and set the hook and proceed to reel my first welcomed visitor. As the bet was for the first fish, I had to rub it in a little so I yell “fish on” and reel in about a 4-5 pound Walleye. The Walleye here have gotten quite large in the past few years which are nice to see.

Then the clouds broke off and we got around an hour and a half of sunlight. As soon as the water warmed up a little that’s when the action started. I hit my other 4 fish one after another and my new friend Ross was not too happy. I told him not to be discouraged and to try casting into different spots along the shore. I was just not his day though and we decided we were going to call it a day at 6:45. I may go back out to the Valley and if I do I will keep you all posted as to how the fishing is. Goodbye for now.

Oct 11

Fishing Trips- Lower Bow River

Happy thanks giving everyone. It is now October 10, 2006 here and the long weekend is now over. What a fantastic weekend of fishing again here on the Bow River. I was finally able to take my good friend Isabelle out fishing for her first time this year. We have been talking about going fishing for quite some time now and our schedules finally worked out. We started out at 9:00 AM and the top end of the float was a little slow. I finally landed my first fish after about twenty five minutes of fishing.

Isabelle took a little while longer but her first fish was worth the wait, an 18 inch brown trout. Then shortly after her first fish she makes a perfect cast about one foot short of the shore, starts to reel the minnow spinner out from the shore than wham-o; a 25 inch Rainbow hammers the hook. She does an excellent job battling the fish and gets it to the boat with no problems. I should have used the net on this fish but I opted not to, and the big one got away. So no photographic evidence this time but that’s o.k. our fishing day was only half over.