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Sunglasses are not optional!

Ice heaves on the banks of the bow river

  On a warm winters day as February is coming to an end, I decided to wander on over to a spot on the Bow River where three weeks ago was fully covered in ice. I was frantically looking for my sunglasses before I left the house for the river, I then remembered they were …

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Battling the Winter Blues

Patience is a virtue but it is sometimes not a virtue of mine! This statement I relate to the chilly winter months when I am cooped up and cannot reach the river to wet a line. When a human being has an itch the natural reaction is to scratch it, so what happens to that …

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Brown Trout Information

  BROWN TROUT INFORMATION             Brown trout are a territorial species that prefer staking out a protected homeland near the edges of fast currents and back pools off current edges. Any obstruction in the water that may provide cover for the light-sensitive fish is a good area to cast. Fish for browns in the same waters …

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Night Fishing The Bow River

Big Tom's Big Brown

In The Still Of The Night. I was slipping and sliding, bumbling and stumbling in the darkness last evening fishing for those massive Brown Trout that just will not feed in the daytime. Not those 18 to 22 inch fish that you can frequently hook into almost at will, I’m talking about those 25 to …

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