Posts tagged 'Bow River'

While many fly fishers would prefer to fish dry flies when given the chance ...

One of the advantages of living near the Bow River is that when Mother Nature cooperates you can fly fish year round. The section of river from the W.H.D. weir downstream to the Caresland Weir is opened to angling all year. 

I cut my fly-fishing teeth on Alberta’s infamous Bow River, a river that earned its reputation on the basis of big fish and big water. Through my first few years of fly-fishing, in fact, that’s the only body of water I fished.

Many angler’s miss out on fishing opportunities because they are “fair weather fishermen”, if weather or water conditions aren’t quite right, they don’t bother to go. On the other hand many anglers will ...

Springtime for the fly fisher can be the “best of times and the worst of times”. Spring brings with it the anticipation of the season ahead, of hungry and eager trout along with ...