Bow River Report –July 21, 2010
The river has certainly fished better in the last week. Cooler temps and some rain have left happier fish. Bright, hot days are still the toughest fishing with cloudy days being kind of silly.
Rising fish on Caddis and PMDs can be found here and there. Noticed a few Trico spinners the last couple of mornings so they are coming soon. Fishing with the foam bugs is generally best in the riffles and gravel bars.
Nymphing remains good and with water levels having dropped a light rig or Hopper-Dropper can be very effective.
Streamer fishing has been very good the last number of days. Sink tips more effective on the bright days, floating lines on the cloudy days. When we have cloud the streamer fishing has been nothing short of “goofy”.
Hatches: Caddis, PMD’s, Stoneflies, Tricos(just starting)
Streamers: Bush’ Witch Doctor, Silvey’s Sculpin Leech (Black w/ Olive, White Head), Marabou Clousers, Articulated Leech
Nymphs: Hogan’s Chubby Cousin, Bloom’s Tung Dart, Gob-O-Worms, Chamois Leech.
Dry Flies: PMD Sparkle Dun, Quill Body Parachute-PMD, Silvey’s Hatching Mayfly-PMD, Bloom’s Parachute Caddis, Bloom’s CDC Caddis, Berretts Barred Leg-Golden Stone, Neversink Stone Popper, Chubby Chernobyl.
Crowsnest River Report – July 21, 2010
Clear and now very wadeable, the Crow is fishing quite good. Dry fly fishing as good as it gets with lots of bugs. Mid-day on the bright, sunny days can be a little tougher. Clody days are generally very good for rising fish.
Hatches: Golden, Yellow and Lime Sally Stoneflies, Caddis, PMD’s, Quill Gordon Mayflies, Green Drakes, and Flav mayflies.
Streamers: Brunette Leech, Chamois Leech.
Nymphs: Pheasant-Tail, Hare's Ear, Copper John, Tung Stud, and San Juan Worm
Dries: Berrett’s Barred Leg Stone, Neversink Caddis, Fat Albert-Black, ParaTrooper-Green Drake, Spun Hair Dun-PMD, Berret’s Emerging Green Drake
High Country River Report – July 21, 2010
All is good with the high country streams. Lower, warmer water leads to happier fish. Lots of bugs…. Stones, Caddis, PMD’s, Green Drakes all mean for great dry fly fishing.
Hatches: Golden, Yellow and Lime Sally Stoneflies, Caddis, PMD’s, Quill Gordon Mayflies, Green Drakes, and Flav mayflies.
Streamers: Brunette Leech, Chamois Leech, Large, olive or white streamers for Bull Trout.
Nymphs: Pheasant-Tail, Hare's Ear, Copper John, Tung Stud, and San Juan Worm
Dries: Berrett’s Barred Leg Stone, Neversink Caddis, Fat Albert-Black, ParaTrooper-Green Drake, Spun Hair Dun-PMD, Berret’s Emerging Green Drake
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Alberta River Report Roundup and Sage Xi3's Available Online
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We haven't done a river report lately, so here's a quick roundup of what is going on with our rivers.
The Bow:
The Bow is fishing mediocre to good. Some days the hopper fishing is unbelievable, while others it definitly leaves you wanting more. Best bet to do 'ok' no matter what is a hopper-dropper rig. You'll find fish eating hoppers and the bead, and the bead fishing has gotten better in the last week or so. Streamer fishing has been so-so, with the deeper throughs holding more fish. This is the time of year to hit the pre-spawn browns, so be ready for fat fish!
The flows are hovering around 80, so you can run into some weed problems, and makes nymphing a lot fun. Hopefully we'll get a massive runoff next year to clean up our river again.
With the colder weather, we're seeing Psuedo's around, and the BWO's should be imminent. All we need is a nice drizzly day, and you should be able to find some fish sipping.
The High Country:
Most of the High Country streams are running clear, but a little cold for the time of the year. Some of the areas have had close to freezing temperatures at night, and the rivers are running a bit high for the time of year. The water temps are quite cold in the mornings, and the afternoons are fishing much better due to this. Ants, BWOS and smaller hoppers are all fishing well.
The Crowsnest:
The Crow is fishing quite typical for this time of year. Fish are easily to spook with the clear water, but you should be able to fool them with thin tippet and a small bug. BWO's are present, and will become more present with a bit of overcast. Hopper fishing can still be quite good, and is worth doing with a mayfly nymph as the dropper. Don't forget your ants!
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We haven't done a river report lately, so here's a quick roundup of what is going on with our rivers.
The Bow:
The Bow is fishing mediocre to good. Some days the hopper fishing is unbelievable, while others it definitly leaves you wanting more. Best bet to do 'ok' no matter what is a hopper-dropper rig. You'll find fish eating hoppers and the bead, and the bead fishing has gotten better in the last week or so. Streamer fishing has been so-so, with the deeper throughs holding more fish. This is the time of year to hit the pre-spawn browns, so be ready for fat fish!
The flows are hovering around 80, so you can run into some weed problems, and makes nymphing a lot fun. Hopefully we'll get a massive runoff next year to clean up our river again.
With the colder weather, we're seeing Psuedo's around, and the BWO's should be imminent. All we need is a nice drizzly day, and you should be able to find some fish sipping.
The High Country:
Most of the High Country streams are running clear, but a little cold for the time of the year. Some of the areas have had close to freezing temperatures at night, and the rivers are running a bit high for the time of year. The water temps are quite cold in the mornings, and the afternoons are fishing much better due to this. Ants, BWOS and smaller hoppers are all fishing well.
The Crowsnest:
The Crow is fishing quite typical for this time of year. Fish are easily to spook with the clear water, but you should be able to fool them with thin tippet and a small bug. BWO's are present, and will become more present with a bit of overcast. Hopper fishing can still be quite good, and is worth doing with a mayfly nymph as the dropper. Don't forget your ants!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Southern Alberta River Reports
Trico on the BowMe and Caity floated the Bow with George Beasley on Tuesday and had a ton of fun.
Caitlin with a very nice bright day Hopper Rainbow
Here's the reports from Southern Alberta as of late
The Bow River:
The river is fishing well again, especially on dark days. The Trico fishing in the morning has been pretty good, and a non-windy day goes a long way in finding rising fish.
The hopper fishing has been pretty good on overcast days, and the fish are definitely responding negatively to bright days. Find some cloud cover, and you'll find rising fish.
Even with the hot weather, there is no need to heavy nymph to find fish. Hoppers love the hot weather, and fishing a big hopper in choppy water off of high banks, or mid-river slots can definitly produce some amazing fish. A dropper can be added if you like, but we've been taking to cutting off the dropper lately to get closer to the banks and finding more fish on top.
Caddis fishing has been ok, but with the rain we've been getting in the afternoon's and evenings has made it a lot harder to find a substantial hatch.
The Oldman River:
The Oldman is high and has some color. It is very reminiscent of the last week of June, first week of July flows and color. The water is very cold for the time of year, and the fish aren't too happy about it. You'll find the odd rising fish, but the hopper/stonefly fishing has not been great like the previous years. Could take a while to drop, considering how high the flows are right now. Most spots are tough to cross, and I'd reccomend picking your crossings carefully.
The Highwood River:
The Highwood is much higher for this time of year then previous years, but the water is clear. However, the water is cold and can make finding happy rising fish a little harder. Keep walking and you'll be sure to find a few.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Alberta River Fishing Report Roundup
Heres a report from most of the rivers that we frequent for the last few days.
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Bow River Report:
The Bow is fishing better again, especially on overcast days. The elbow is finally starting to clear up, so we're seeing better visibility each day. All stretches of the river are fishing quite well, and you can still be fishing big foam bugs to great success. Caddis fishing continues to be great, especially with the diminishing PMDs. Look for fish sipping caddis on grassy banks and in foam lines. We should continue to have good caddis fishing and the tricos are starting to show down on the lower end. Should be good fishing for a long time (we hope anyway)
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High Country Report:
The cutty's are finally looking up consistently. The water temps have increased dramatically since the big rain, so the fish are finally happy to be eating on top.Green drakes, Stimulators, Humpies and anything with rubber legs seems to be working extremely well. A caddis tossed over a tough fish usually gets an eat when presented with a solid drift.Be on the look out for bullys, they'll be on the move and killing whitefish like it's their jobs (oh wait, it is!).
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Crowsnest Report:
From the reports we've been getting from the Pass, the crow is fishing extremely well right now. The water has receded and cleaned up at last.Caddis, stoneflies, hoppers and green drakes continue making the fish rise. Using a hopper dropper setup will certaintly have some success on both top and bottom. Don't forget PMDs as they have been fishing well in the evenings as well.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
400kms of driving, for fishing 45 minutes away!
Yesterday hurt. Rain and more rain. Drove down to the Oldman in hopes that the rain would have stopped and the river clear. It wasn't. The rain was still pouring (to the point that the road was in brutal shape).
Seems like the Oldman got the worst of it for weather, as it was pure and utter mud.
Drove upstream a bit and followed the mud, before finally giving up and heading back north.
Ended up on another stream, and headed to a favourite spot, to only have the rain start pouring again on us. Luckily we had a back up plan, and made our way there.
400 km's of driving to end up fishing an area 45 minutes from home.
I guess it didn't suck all that bad. (sorry bout the bad quality, the zoom on the camera aint great)
A pretty good bully on a brand new fly. Makes up for the long drive pretty quickly
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Conditions Update
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain. Let it STOP raining.
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While the rain is much needed it would be better received if it didn't come down in torrents. Many anglers got stuck in the extreme weather yesterday, a few trying to stick it out while most gave up and went home.
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It was early afternoon when the color change occurred, the pounding rain caused the river to rise and mud up. The Bow River spike at 153cms at 2:00 pm yesterday and has dropped to 123cms (at 5:30 am.) Its no surprise it did this since the Elbow Ranger Station received 50.8 mm of rain in six hours yesterday which explains why the Elbow would jump up to 63 cms (from 8 cms.) The Sheep River is also pumping in dirty causing the Bow below the Highwood confluence to dirty slightly as well. Above Fish Creek we've had reports of good visibility.
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This clarity level and light is perfect for a Flesh Colored Medusa or Silvey's Sculpin Leech.
Also working consistently is the Chamois Leech and of course, the Golden Stone.
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If your planning on heading further south, the conditions may be a bit better but they still received a large amount of rain in the Oldman River Sub Basin.
A Oldman River report will up ASAP, probably tomorrow morning.
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Hooked on National Geographic is apparently not airing in Canada at this time, but still be on the lookout for it.
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While the rain is much needed it would be better received if it didn't come down in torrents. Many anglers got stuck in the extreme weather yesterday, a few trying to stick it out while most gave up and went home.
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It was early afternoon when the color change occurred, the pounding rain caused the river to rise and mud up. The Bow River spike at 153cms at 2:00 pm yesterday and has dropped to 123cms (at 5:30 am.) Its no surprise it did this since the Elbow Ranger Station received 50.8 mm of rain in six hours yesterday which explains why the Elbow would jump up to 63 cms (from 8 cms.) The Sheep River is also pumping in dirty causing the Bow below the Highwood confluence to dirty slightly as well. Above Fish Creek we've had reports of good visibility.
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This clarity level and light is perfect for a Flesh Colored Medusa or Silvey's Sculpin Leech.
Also working consistently is the Chamois Leech and of course, the Golden Stone.
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If your planning on heading further south, the conditions may be a bit better but they still received a large amount of rain in the Oldman River Sub Basin.
A Oldman River report will up ASAP, probably tomorrow morning.
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Hooked on National Geographic is apparently not airing in Canada at this time, but still be on the lookout for it.
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