Shelley Bindon fly-fishing on the Blackstone River near Nordegg. The river is mostly narrow, requiring short, precise casts to avoid the trees and brush, but when it opens, the rocky beaches and gentle current make it easy to fish faraway undercuts where the trout like to hide.
Photograph by: Bruce Edwards, Edmonton Journal
Raise your hand if you've fished a lake in Alberta. Raise your hand if you've fished those lakes with flies. OK, now raise your hand if you've fished an icy cold mountain stream with flies. That thins out the field a bit.
I've been fishing Edmonton area lakes for decades, sometimes using bait, sometimes tackle and sometimes flies, which are hand-tied in patterns that imitate insects using materials such as feathers, thread and animal hair.
But until one rainy weekend in July, I had never had the pleasure of casting for cutthroat trout in a clear creek surrounded by chalky, mossy cliffs, wild roses and giant evergreens. It was exhilarating.
Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/2cojbc6
Via: Calgary Herald, Tues Sept 02, 2010
Original Edmonton Journal article plus seven photos here: http://tinyurl.com/26jomol
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