It can be hard to get trout to move this time of year, But this Brownie readily took a streamer on the first cast!!...
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Its warming up and its time to start thinking about getting the gear ready and loading the fly box with the past winters experiments and as always our good old stand by’s ! This one of my all time favorite patterns for the Oldman Watershed The Green drake emerger!...
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Spring is almost upon us!! Although most of us long for our amazing East-slope mountain waters, it will still be some time before those waters open. Southern Alberta offers some amazing still-water opportunities. I have found amazing success with all of the flies in this package. Contact through this website or on Facebook. You can also just shoot me a text at 403 360 1466 See you on the water! ...
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My first foray into fly tying vids! A simple Dunn pattern perfect for Southern Alberta Waters Materials Needed: Mallard Flank and Saddle hackle....
Continue readingSouthern Alberta Cabin fever is almost at an end!
A little early season luck in the Tail waters of the Oldman river. It has been a long miserable @$#$#%$& winter in Southern Alberta but yesterday I managed to find just a little reprieve and a friend! I even found a couple of rainbows and Browns rising , but I had to call it when the snake guides on my rod iced up so badly that I couldnt cast! So soon, very soon the wonder that is our great outdoors will turn green again and restore life to the Oldman watershed of southern Alberta!! ...
Continue readingEarly Season Patterns for Southern Alberta
Early Season Patterns for Southern Alberta Shane Olson of myflyguy.ca As much as an avid fly fisherman enjoys casting dry flies, in the early season this will put serious limitations on the fish you will be able to reach. The reason for this is basic entomology. This is not to say that you can’t fish dries early, but if we are to match the hatch our options will become extremely limited. Although there are some flies that will hatch in the earliest part of the Southern Alberta season, such as March Browns, most of the waters have not yet reached the temperatures needed to kick-start any sort of hatch that would get a dry fly nuts heart pounding. Keeping this in mind choosing the right flies for the early chilled Alberta days can certainly make the difference between successful fishing or just a great walk in the woods. ...
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