Posts tagged 'Calgary'

Event 3 was nothing short of a mentally exhausting day. The fishing was extraordinary in numbers and tested everyone’s ability to be efficient with everything.

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

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  ...

It all started with Air Miles of all things. I traded in Air Miles to score us a couple tickets to the Calgary Zoo. We heard that they had a baby giraffe, a baby gorilla, and added more exhibits since my last visit 10 or more years ago. 

About a dozen or so years ago things changed. I moved to Calgary and Stauffer Creek, the little jewel of a spring creek that I considered my "home water" when I lived in Edmonton, stopped being the focus of my fly fishing addiction. 

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.

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 ...