Bow River Blog

The Dark Side of Brown Trout Fishing
I love to fish for massive Brown Trout and this species of fish is what I usually target. They are the hardest species of trout to catch for various different reasons. One is they have the best eye sight of all species of trout. The second reason is they […]

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Brown Trout - Originally from Europe, brown trout were introduced to the Bow River in the early 20th century and have successfully colonized the river from below Bow Falls in Banff National Park out onto the prairies on the Blackfoot Reservation. Fall spawners, the brown trout have found optimum spawning habitat within the City of […]

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In this next post I would like to talk about the elusive Brown Trout. The Brown Trout (Salmo trutta morpha fario and S. trutta morpha lacustris) and the Sea Trout (S. trutta morpha trutta) are fish of the same species distinguished chiefly by the fact that the brown trout is largely a freshwater fish, while the […]

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