Posts tagged 'Brown Trout'

I cut my fly-fishing teeth more than 30 years ago on the Bow River, downstream of Calgary. Under the tutelage of my friend and mentor, Perry McCormick. I learned the rudiments of  ...

Anyone who knows me knows that fly fishing for Brown Trout in small streams is my favourite thing to do. The challenges presented, the constant change in ...

When you get right down to it - for those of us in the angling community who consider ourselves "committed" - there is no bad time to go fishing. That’s why you can go out to any ...

One of the best aspects of the sport of Fly Fishing, in my opinion, is experiencing new waters and the areas in which they are located. Some of my best flyfishing memories are ...

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year to be out fly fishing. The streams are low and clear, the leaves are turning color and the crowds of summer have diminished.

It’s been another long, hard icy winter, as the old timers used to say. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty partial to the pleasures of hard water angling, and western anglers can still find places to actually cast a horizontal line - even in the deepest, darkest winter months.

Imagine a place with palmetto palms, swamps full of alligators, downhome Southern cooking and trout streams - one whose cosmic blue waters flows through the state’s largest city.

The recent hot and dry weather in Alberta that closed many of southern Alberta streams due to high water temperatures got me thinking of alternate locations for trout stream addicts such as myself

Sometimes the planning of a trip can be the best part, this year the planning of the whole season is what is helping me get through this long, cold winter.

October is not the month typically thought of as a brown trout month, but October has been my best month for catching big browns.