Where will YOUR paradise be this long weekend?
Paradise can be somewhere special in your heart, that special place you used to go with your family! It can be somewhere you return year after year. Paradise can be somewhere you have seen a picture of and it just begs you to go there. Paradise could be somewhere a friend has told you about that just call’s your name for some reason or another, a reason only to be discovered once you arrive. This Canada day where will your paradise be? Above is a picture of what my paradise looks like. I snapped this picture just after we launched the boat and drove north up the Lower Kananaskis Lake in search of our paradise.
With the Bow river in its current state of dirty fast water that is unfishable, my paradise will be the Lower Kananaskis Lake this Canada day long weekend. I have not graced the shoreline there since last year when a friend and I fished all day. Many large fat Bull Trout were landed and released for us to return this year. Well this year has arrived and I am gathering my fishing goodies tomorrow for a day at the lake come Monday. This winter was one where I was approached by many fishing tackle manufactures to endorse their products, some of which I gladly accepted and some I had to turn away. With the river all blown out I have not even got a chance to fish with these new weapons! That is all going to change come Monday morning where I will be at the lake when the sun rises over the mountain tops and shimmers onto the mountain fed aqua. If you get there early enough you can hear the birds chirping and watch the Richardson Ground Squirrels running about near the boat launch picnic tables looking for left overs that have dropped off the table. Once you look out into the lake at this time of the new day, you will see the fish rising out of the water to sip flies and grab minnows that they school into the shoreline to attack and feed on. Many of the larger fish will feed at this time, so the early bird will get a shot at some bigger specimens at dawn.
Many people love to camp and find their paradise in a park or remote campsite. I saw many trailers and boats hooked up to trucks yesterday making their way to their own little slice of paradise. There is nothing like a crackling fire after dark and camp coffee percolated fresh in the morning to remind you that no matter where you are, that little slice of heaven is not far away! In Alberta with the mountains so close, many folks camp there and breathe in the fresh pine air to leave the stresses of big city living behind even for a few days. There is just something about looking at the stars late at night in pitch blackness while the smoke from that
campfire rises up.
This weekend where will you find paradise? Will it be in the mountains camping with friends, will it be beside or on a lake somewhere alone casting for Trophy trout, Walleye, Pike or will it be somewhere else? Please leave a comment and let us know what your definition of paradise looks like for you!
