River Update

What did we say about a trampoline?? The flows have been up, down and all around and the fishing has been the same story. Here's a selection of photo's from the last week. The stones are slowing down, that could be due to the water and conditions fluctuating or it might mean the tapering off of the hatch, only time will tell. Currently, we are looking at 308 cms and about a foot and a half visibility. Word from today indicated good fishing on streamers and a Chubby Chernobyl and Jimmy Legs dropper. 

Photo by Andy J.

Photo by Dean D.

Photo by Dean D.

Photo by Dean D.

Monday Update

The Bow River fishing report is a little like a trampoline so far in 2012. All waqs good late last week and then the river bumped back up to around 327 cms.
We are still catching fish but things have switched from foam to nymphs. There were some PMD fish here and there on Sunday as a bright spot.

Jenn Buck was on the river on Sunday giving a clinic on proper fish release techniques and how to take fish release photos........

Fishing reports-July 13

Bow River Report –July 13, 2012


To say things have evolved and improved in the last week on the Bow would be somewhat of an understatement. Things switched up to dry fly in a big way!

This might be our shortest report ever……IT’S VERY GOOD!

Hatches: Caddis, PMD’s, Golden Stones

Streamers: Slap and Tickle-Olive #4, Silvey’s Sculpin Leech-Black #4, Clouser Minnow-Black/White #2

Nymphs: Jimmy Legs-Rusty Olive #6, Morrish’s WMD-Golden #8, Hogan’s Rubber Stone-Golden #8

Dry Flies: Morrish Still Stone #4, Chubby Chernobyl-Black/Tan #6, Quigley’s Film Critic-PMD #16


Crowsnest River Report – July 13, 2012


Fishing on the Crow has been very good! More and more dry fly fishing every day!

Hatches: Golden Stones, PMD’s, Caddis

Streamers: Morrish Wooly Sculpin #4, Near Nuff Sculpin-Tan #4, Geek Leech-Brown #2

Nymphs: Jimmy Legs - Dk. Brown #8, Hogan’s Rubber Stone-Golden #8

Dries: Plopper Stone #6, Berrett’s Mutant Stone #6, Grillo’s El Camino-Golden #8

High Country River Report – July 13, 2012


Reports from a bunch of the high country streams this past week were very good. Stoneflies are everywhere!

Hatches: Stoneflies

Streamers: Sleech-Pink, Medusa-Fleshy

Nymphs: Jimmy Legs - Dk. Brown #8, Hogan’s Rubber Stone-Golden #8

Dries: Grillo’s El Camino #8

Bow River Update-July 12

Nuff' said!

Couple Days On The River

Just a quick update on happenings on the river from the last couple of days........

The river cleaned up some more through Sunday and Monday. It was actually looking pretty gooey yesterday. Flows are stable around 285 cms. The fish are certainly keyed in on the Stonefly nymphs right now and a few more fish are coming up to eat the dry flies. Once water levels drop a little the foam bug fishing should light up.

The general consensus amongst our guided trip from yesterday was that the river fished extremely well!

Got to spend Sunday and half of yesterday on the river and things are definitely getting better! Good number of nice Brown Trout, mostly on the Stonefly (only problem is most everything's happening about 2 feet lower than we'd like!)

Holy Brown Trout

Here's Dr. Laatsch with a perfect reason to get out fishing. 

River has been fishing well the last couple of days, flows are down around 290cms and clarity is about a foot. Jimmy Legs and other big stones are still number one for the list of go to bugs.

Fishing Reports!

Bow River Report –July 6, 2012



River dropped about 20 CMS yesterday. Down to about 305 CMS. Visibility around 8-10 inches. Guided trips over the last few days have done surprisingly well, with most fish being caught on Stonefly nymphs.

Streamer fishing has been pretty decent but you definitely need to get the fly down in the water column…not terribly easy at this flow rate!

We need just a little less water and a little more visibility for fish to start looking up and eating dry flies. Fished a foam bug on couple banks on Wednesday without much gratification but I did see a couple fish crash on Stoneflies during the day.

Overall, fishing is pretty good! Seen it a lot worse…..

Hatches: Caddis, PMD’s, Golden Stones

Streamers: Pseudo Sculpin-Olive #4, Silvey’s Sculpin Leech-Black #4, Clouser Minnow-Black/White #2
Nymphs: Jimmy Legs-Rusty Olive #6, Morrish’s WMD-Golden #8, Hogan’s Rubber Stone-Golden #8
Dry Flies: Morrish Still Stone #4

Crowsnest River Report – July 6, 2012



The Crow has been fishing pretty good over the last number of days. Dropping continuously and clearing. Getting better every day.

Stonefly nymphs working very well. More and more fish eating dries.

Hatches: Golden Stones, PMD’s, Caddis

Streamers: Morrish Wooly Sculpin #4, Near Nuff Sculpin-Tan #4, Geek Leech-Brown #2
Nymphs: Jimmy Legs - Dk. Brown #8, Hogan’s Rubber Stone-Golden #8
Dries: Plopper Stone #6, Berrett’s Mutant Stone #6

High Country River Report – July 6, 2012


Most of the high country stuff is clearing pretty good but a little high for this time of year. Biggest thing is they are still very cold! Got a water temperature from Racehorse the other day….40 degrees Fahrenheit! Not so good for Cutthroat fishing. With the expected warm days coming up thing will improve!

Hatches: Few Stoneflies

Streamers: Near Nuff Sculpin-Tan #4, Geek Leech-Brown #2
Nymphs: Jimmy Legs - Dk. Brown #8, Hogan’s Rubber Stone-Golden #8
Dries: Plopper Stone #6, Humpy-Red #14

Why we love Waterworks Lamson

A 5 part video on the construction and features of Waterworks reels. These guys are amazingly dialed in on what makes a reel tick (so to speak). Portions of the videos are fairly scientific, but well worth the watch!


Part 1





For part 2 through 5 click below

Sage ONE Two Handed Rods

They have arrived!! A selection of ONE two handed rods can now be found at CPs.

Now you can get the awesome-ness of the single handed rods in both hands.

Worth a look next time your in the neighborhood!

CP Welcomes Petar L. to the team

 We want to introduce you to our newest staff member: Petar L. Pete is a fantastic addition to the CP staff, we feel he brings a lot to the table offering some great new insight.

 

"I started fly fishing in the summer of '09 when a buddy, Coop, taught me. My favorite fly is either the caddis or my own nymph named the Poot Nymph. I like caddis because the fish love em for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My favourite stretches are the inner city and Fish Creek to Police because you don't need to drive far for big browns. I also enjoy skiing, snowboarding, biking, skateboarding and music."          

 

Pete will be joining us full-time this summer.

We are also excited to welcome Josh M.to the team, stay tuned for his interview in the near future.

Here's a few other guide and staff spotlights from the past:

http://countrypleasuresff.blogspot.ca/2011/06/guide-spotlight-mike-guinn.html
http://countrypleasuresff.blogspot.ca/2010/07/guide-spotlight.html
http://countrypleasuresff.blogspot.ca/2010/07/guide-profile-joe-buck.html