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Emergers

A fish feeding on the surface will have two distinct looks. The first is when it eats a bug sitting on top of the water surface. It will stick only its snout out of the water. You can often see a bug float into its range and anticipate the eat. 

Night Fishing for Trophy Trout
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Night Fishing for Trophy Trout

There is mystique about the night. The silence. I cannot help to wonder what monsters stir, not to be seen in the light of day. Brown trout being nocturnal, it only makes sense. But to the advantage of all trout, night is when aerial predators are held mostly at bay. 

woman sitting in boat holds a walleye close to her face with both hands
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Mono or Braid for Walleye

When it comes to fishing line and chasing walleye in our lakes, I choose both braid and mono.

Walleye held by hand halfway above water
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Summer Walleye

It's a perfect summer day.  There's a light breeze, its overcast with some sunny breaks, and the temperature is comfortable.  I have lots of choices available to me.  There is great river fishing, good trout fishing, good pike fishing, and good walleye fishing.  I decide I'm going walleye fishing.

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Rod Tip Positioning

In my capacity as a fly school instructor the one thing I find myself repeating the most to the students is rod tip positioning when fishing dry flies upstream.

man standing in water wearing shorts and no waders a holding fish and fishing rod
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Wet Wading

One of the nicest things for anglers is the arrival of warm summer days and the opportunity to wade wet. Being unencumbered by the waders that make life on the stream bearable for the other 3 seasons.

man standing in the water with dog in river stream
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Fishing the Seam

Successful flyfishing is all about delusion, confusion and deception.

Fooling the fish is the key element to success.

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White Knight of the Alberta Rockies (and Beyond)

When it comes to handing out the angling hardware hereabouts, it’s not a very crowded podium.

Cold-water trout, and rainbows in particular, perennially share the laurel wreath with their warmer-water cousins the walleye.

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Tip: Pre-scouting river conditions

Alberta is littered with quality, accessible trout streams, but a lot of travel is involved in exploration. Your buddies and an online search can’t always prepare you for current river conditions, how do you know what to expect? 

clear blue river with seagulls and ducks on river row boat and tree line in the distance
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Spring on the River

Spring weather lifts the burden of old man winter off southern Alberta and coaxes fly fishers from their vices onto open rivers. As some of the only open water around, early migrants bring the river to life. Franklin’s gulls break the silence of winter, ducks are flashing their breeding plumage, and soon swallows will fill the sky in a frenzy. Itching to just get back on the river, expectations are tempered with shaking the dust off your cast and soaking some rays in mind. Low water temperatures hold fish from being active early, but quality trout still show themselves.

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