Fishing Spots - Haida Gwai Edition

One of the beautiful rivers found in the haida Gwai.
Peaceful winter steelheading!

Thanks!

Bow River Shuttles Photo

Thanks to everyone who braved the weather on Saturday and dropped by the Customer Appreciation Day. Turned out to be busier than we thought it might be considering it snowed all day. Quite a lot of people were troopers and took the opportunity to cast rods. Hope everyone enjoyed the burgers!

Thanks to Doug and Allison Best, from Orvis, who came all the way from Bozeman to help out.

Also thanks to Ruben Breitkreutz, form Far Bank, for joining us to help out.

Thanks to Bow river Shuttles for joining us.

Thanks to Maureen, who cooked burgers for hours in the snow.

Congratulations to Lance Chalmers on winning the Helios 2 rod, and Graeme Dales an winning the Sage Motive rod.

Orvis Package Sale!




Until May 15, get a selected Orvis Fly Rod, Orvis Fly Reel, Orvis Fly Line, and backing, for 20% OFF!

 

Customer Appreciation Specials!

Fishing Reports - April 21, 2014

Bow River Report –April 21, 2014
With the warmer weather we have seen some flushes of dirtier water over the last couple of weeks. Currently, the river has some color but is certainly fishable.

Nymphs and Streamers continue to give the best success, but there have been more bugs around of late with a few rising fish here and there.

There have been a number of very nice, healthy Brown trout caught of late, which is great news. Kev was out the other day and saw a couple of two foot class fish while fishing a streamer.

Ice is still a factor lower down on the river. McKinnon`s road and launch area are in horrible shape and they say Carseland will not open in 2014. City launches and Policeman`s are OK.

Hatches: Midges, BWO`s

Streamers: Clouser-Brown/White, Geek Leech-Purple, ¼ Pound Bugger-Olive

Nymphs: G/B Werminator, Wire Worm, Atomic Worm, WMD Stone-Dark,
Jimmy Legs

Dry Flies: Film Critic-BWO, CDC Griffith`s Gnat.

Crowsnest River Report – April 21, 2014
The Crow got a good punch of dirty water a couple of weeks ago but is fishable now. This has always been a favorite time to head to the Crow. Can offer the first dry fly fishing of the season, some sight fishing, etc. to blow off the cobwebs.

Check your regs for sectional closures on the Crow right now.

The Oldman, downstream of Waldron Bridge is open and fishable.

Hatches: Midges, BWO`s

Streamers: Bead Crystal Bugger, Jawbreaker

Nymphs: Jimmy Legs, Rock`n`Roller Stone, G/B R/L Hares Ear, WMD Stone.

Dries: Film Critic-BWO, BWO Thorax, Griffith`s Gnat.

High Country River Report – April 21, 2014
High Country Streams are closed until June 16, 2014.

Fishing Spots - Pike Fishing Edition

Sunset at Gypsy Lake, one of the great Pike fisheries in Northern Alberta.

Logo Loggerheads

CP logo Howler Loggerheads have arrived.
Feel comfortable, and look good too!

Ulsifer Photos

Photo of CP staff member, Petar, taken by Dane Ulsifer. The sketches, artwork, and photgraphy that Dane has shared with us is brilliant. He's a very talented guy. Keeep an eye out for his stuff in the future, we're pretty sure he's going to have a great future in artistic design and photography.

Easter Hours

Shop hours for the Easter weekend:

Friday open 10 AM to 4 PM

Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM

Open regular hours on Monday

Happy Easter!

Black Fly Trip Report

We just returned from 2 weeks at Black Fly Lodge in Abaco, Bahamas this past weekend.This year we did two seperate, back to back, hosted weeks. Our first group arrived at BF on March 29, fishing the subsequent 6 days. Our arrival coincided with the tail end of some pretty awful weather that they had been experiencing for a few days. This resulted in our first two days being kind of a fight with light (or lack thereof).

After the first couple of days, Mother Nature started to look more kindly upon us with more sunlight and stable weather patterns. Fishing improved right along with the weather. A couple of double digit Bonefish were landed during the week with quite a number of fish 5 pounds and over landed. One of our group, who we`ll just refer to as "Lucky Les", continued his Black Fly tradition of losing a couple of truly huge Bonefish.

Everyone thinks of Bonefish when the Bahamas are mention but Abaco is a very viable Permit fishery with some huge specimens kicking around. Five Permit were landed in our first week with one fish lost. One of the Permit came in at around 40 pounds.

The meals were maybe better than last year, which we would have never thought possible. Oh, and they still hold the title for best fishing lodge beds and showers in the world!

Our second week saw a continuation of very nice weather to start. I had the privelege of fishing with an old friend who is enjoying his first year of retirement. We had some pretty decent Bonefishing with shots at some very big fish.

Mid-week brought us a present from the north in the form of cloud, high wind, and dropping temps. Wednesday we headed out with expectations of a very pleasnat boat ride and horrible fishing. All of us ended up getting a ton of shot at big Bonefish. Unfortunately, they were the most uninterested fish I think I have ver seen. Fly reactions ranged from complete disinterest to absolute panic. Obviously it was a head scratcher.

As an added bonus, there were a ton of shots at tailing Mutton Snapper in very skinny water. tailing Muttons pretty much put Permit to shame in the spooky/difficult department.

The last few days brought improvement and the last day saw unbelievable Bonefishing. And just to top things off, there was a 4:05 PM, just about ready to quit, last cast Permit landed...perfect!

Great big thanks to SD, DP, TS, LG, and TH (you all know who you are). And a big thanks to whole cast and crew at Black Fly!

Mark your calendar for April 18-25, 2015! We're going back!

Saturday Seminar - April 12

Tube Flies For Steelhead

Adam Rich shows us tube flies for chrome. Not just wet flies,some cool tube dry flies as well.

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars.

All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon. There is no charge and no pre-registration required. Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

Saturday Seminar - April 5

What’s Going On With The Bow

Everyone has a lot of questions as to how the Bow has changed since the flood events of 2013.

Kevin Peterson and Jeff Thomson will discuss how things have changed, ways to fish it, you name it.
Questions are a big part of this seminar so don’t be shy.

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars.
All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon. There is no charge and no pre-registration required. Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.