Posts tagged 'Brown Trout'

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.

Most of us are creatures of habit, and our tendency to fall back on the tried and trusted extends to our fishing habits as much as it does the rest of our lives. Do you find yourself fishing the same streams and the same reaches of those streams year after year?...

The end of October signals the end of the season for much of the stream fishing here in Alberta. Like most places there are a few places ...

One sublime sunny afternoon a few years back I was fishing a classic northern Alberta grayling stream that tumbled over ...

It's November and with each day the ice gets thicker and now the smallest of ponds and lakes are locked up with enough new ice, it is strong enough to hold a person. This is a golden time. And while there are several possibilities, we have our hearts set on trying to catch one of the prettiest trout that swims, and that is the brook trout.

Even our most prolific and populous trout streams (and that applies to Northern Boreal grayling creeks too) can be cruel and...

A road trip destination is whatever you make it. Anywhere from an internationally renowned river like the...

When it comes to destination fly fishing, where New Zealand, the Bahamas, Argentina and Belize suck most of the oxygen from the room, Italy ...

When I was given the chance in February to escape the Polar Vortex ...

It was early morning, a misty fog clung to the surface of the lake ...