Tag: Night Fishing the bow river

Fishing friends and memories of the past

Remembering Big Tom. It was about fourteen years ago I met “Big Tom” as we called him. Tom was about six foot five with a deep toned voice. I had met Tom through some mutual friends of mine and quickly discovered that he also loved to fish as I did. After chatting with Tom on …

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Fall fishing the Bow River 2017

night fishing the Bow River

  And summer slithers away It only seemed like yesterday that I awoke to a forecast of raging heat and sweat dripping from every pore of my being. The summer here in Cow-town was a scorcher with temperatures reaching in the low thirties for what seemed like the whole summer. As we turned to corner …

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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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