Tag: fishing

Itchin For Some Open Water Fishin

trout-fishing-the-bow-river-winter

  The cabin fever blues As the snow falls downward, blanketing the once brown grass of just a few months ago, to now pale white, I look out the window and dream! Dream of the fish in the river that lie waiting, slowly swimming near the bottom or slowly rising near the edge of the …

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Canadian Tire Update’s It’s Fishing Department

Canadian Tire Upgrades Fishing Department

  Recently the local Canadian Tire locations here in Calgary, Alberta have become much more competitive in several of it’s locations. Higher end brand name gear and a deeper selection of the lures those hungry local fish love to snack on. A recently revamped tackle department to compete with some of the more larger retail …

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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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