Bow River Fishing Report - from May 15 2012

Pat Q's fly fishing party at boat launch.  Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles All Rights Reserved 2012

Tuesday May 15 2012

22X/Fish Creek Park to Policeman’s Flats.

We had a great trip down the river on Tuesday night. The weather was perfect and the fish were very cooperative too!

The only problem was the fishermen.

We had at least 10 solid hook-ups with 7 of those being nice big fish. We saw most of our fish but didn't manage to get even one in the boat. About half were rainbows, we had them on long enough to watch them jump and get along side the boat (but not in the boat) . The other half were fish we had on but they stayed deep, no chance for a visual.

We had all of our fish on SJ Worms, it was definitely the hot fly of our trip.

There were a few rising fish but nothing consistent. Water clarity was good, but not as good as it has been.

We had a relatively new flyfisherman with us and he had the most hook-ups by far. He commented how great the fishing was even though none of us landed a fish. 

Just goes to show that you can't always measure success based on how many fish are landed. A great reminder for me !

THANKS TO PAT Q FOR THIS FISHING REPORT.