Fishing Reports - June 23

Your friendly neighbourhood fishing report for this week. Prohibited from being the friendliest...but certainly second!


Bow River Report –June 23, 2014
Never again will we post a fishing report on or about the middle of June extolling the positive fishing and water conditions. A week ago the river was in almost perfect shape and was fishing really well. And then Environment Canada modified their forecast from the sort of wet week to an absolutely drenched week.

Anyways, moving on, the river IS dropping, and if the weather continues dry, start to clean up fairly soon. You should expect the excellent fishing to restart as we see clarity improve and levels drop in the next week.

Basically, it looks like an absolutely normal year!!! High and dirty water in June with conditions coming around late in the month and the nearest thing to perfection we get coming right around the first of July. Stay tuned.

McKinnon`s road and launch area are open. Having said that, we ask that people think twice about using McKinnon’s when we see heavy rainfall. The road will not support rain and vehicles in its present state. Carseland will not open in 2014. City launches, Jansen’s, and Policeman`s are OK.

Hatches: Caddis, Stoneflies

Streamers: Clouser-Brown/White, Geek Leech-Purple, ¼ Pound Bugger-Olive, Silvey’s Scuplin Leech-Olive/Black/White Head, Love Bunny
Nymphs: Heavy Metal Worm, Jimmy Legs-Dark Brown, Chubby Cousin,
Rock ‘n’ Roller Stone
Dry Flies: Elk Hair Caddis, Better Foam Caddis, March Brown Parachute, Chubby Chernobyl-Blk/Tan, Chubby Chernobyl-Orange

Crowsnest River Report – June 23, 2014
South streams like the Crow, Oldman, Waterton, etc. got hit much worse by last week’s rains. They saw, in many cases, twice the rainfall amounts that Calgary saw.
As a result the Crow, which was running at 13 cms early last week, is now running in the mid 20’s.
If things stay dry, it won’t take long before it comes back into shape. Likely in a week to ten days.


Hatches: Salmonflies. Caddis, PMD’s, etc. should be going about the time water clears and drops.

Streamers: Bead Crystal Bugger, Jawbreaker
Nymphs: Jimmy Legs, Rock`n`Roller Stone, WMD Stone.
Dries: Berrett’s Golden Stone-Barred Leg, Morrish Fluttering Stone,
R/L Stimulator-Orange

High Country River Report – June 23, 2014There are basically two zones of High Country streams right now. The Highwood and streams north of there as one, and the second being all streams south of the Highwood.

Highwood and north are big and dirty but should come around fairly quick.
The Highwood and Sheep already dropping like crazy. Streams south of the Highwood will take a little bit longer as they saw way more rain.

Never fear, they’ll come around fairly soon and like most years, should be pretty good around July 1 (sooner if you want to nymph and streamer fish).

Hatches: Stoneflies, Caddis, PMD’s

Streamers: Sleech-Olive, Silveys Sculpin Leech-Tan, Party Boy-Pink
Nymphs: Rock ‘n’ Roller Stone, W.M.D. Stone, Chubby Cousin
Dries: Berrett’s Barred Leg-Golden Stone, Chubby Chernobyl-Orange,
R/L Stimulator-Orange