Bow River Fishing Report - from May 04 2012

Photo, courtesy Ryan L.

Friday May 04 2012

Policeman’s Flats to McKinnon Flats

My son and I had a wonderful first float of the year. The air was sweet and the sun was warm.

The river had about 18" or so of visibility and there were BWOs hatching prolifically. All the fish we caught were small but feisty.

Photo, courtesy Ryan L.

In the first part of the float we were catching them on #18 BWO emergers in the riffly water at the heads of runs. Later on we switched to a small rusty streamer that attracted a bunch of enthusiastic strikes.

As I mentioned, all the fish we landed were small but we did have some larger fish on momentarily. The river still felt empty of the spawning rainbows but maybe that was just us.

All in all, It was a lovely day.

- THANKS TO RYAN L. FOR THIS FISHING REPORT AND PHOTOS

Photo, courtesy Ryan L.