Bow River Blog

Then I decide to go and change my lure again as its almost dark by this time now. I put on a brown trout pattern Minnow Spinner and fish a little further down from where I pulled the two big browns from. Sure enough my trick works and I am hauling in my third big [...]

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Hello to all you fishermen and women out there. It’s now September 13, 2006 and the Brown trout fishing has kicked into high gear here in Alberta. I fished on Sunday of last weekend and was very successful out on the Bow River once again. I was using the Blue Fox Minnow Spinner in the [...]

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He wasn’t very happy and he was making all kinds of grunting noises without me even squeezing him. I am always extra careful when handling and releasing big fish. I always make sure the fish is completely revived before I let him/her go. The rule I use is, when I feel the fish give a [...]

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I set aside that rod and picked up my other rod which is all ready to go. Proceed to make a cast and the lure only went about three meters, the lure hits the water and all of a sudden a massive Brown completely destroys my Minnow Spinner. This fish was so aggressive it bent the [...]

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