Tag: fishing with kids

A Daddy Daughter Day on The Bow River

brown trout winter fishing the Bow River

  Finally our cold snap broke long enough for my daughter and I to spend a few hours out on the banks of the Bow River. A few weeks ago we both decided some fresh air was in order. We walked a while before stopping along the banks of the Bow near Southland Dog Park. …

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Blown Out Bow River

A washed out boat launch at Policeman's Flats

June 20 2013 Destruction and devastation of the likes I have never seen firsthand with my own eye balls. I witnessed the floods here in Calgary in 2005 and thought that was massive, which it was. Now this flood is at least three times worse than 2005 and I have heard worse than the flood …

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River report for the Bow River system. May 27, 2013

With three solid days of rain and run off already started, the clean water of the Bow River system now takes on a similar look of a chocolate milk carton. With water running out of the storm drains and into the river now, it looks like fishing should be done on a lake or reservoir. …

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Is It Summer Yet? I want To Float The Bow River!

If April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, why do I see snow and not flowers? Can we just get on with spring please and leave winter far back in the rear view mirror. But this type of weather is the norm here in Alberta where the Rocky Mountains seem to always add surprises …

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