| A couple of count down Rapala's, a Brown Trout and | | | | I had to walk back up river where I started fishing to |
| a Brook Trout. A December day and twelve degree | | | | tie another hook up. What to use this time I thought |
| weather, one Berkley Precision Tech fishing rod, | | | | while walking back to my back pack. I wanted |
| Berkley XT eight pound fishing line, no one on the | | | | another Count Down but which color should I pick. |
| Bow River but me, and we have a recipe for | | | | Digging down into the lower section of the many |
| success. I looked at the weather forecast and we | | | | lures, I find a box with all CD-9 Rapala's in it. The box |
| had a green light. I cleared a block of time for trout | | | | is a little worse for ware but the lures inside a |
| fishing the Bow River and off into the sunny blue sky | | | | practically brand new. I see one I have never really |
| I went. My stomach was growling and my heart was | | | | tried before. A Brook Trout color pattern which has a |
| beating fast as I arrived at my parking spot. I wolfed | | | | bright red bottom to it. The reason I picked this lure |
| down some Tim Horton's chili and scrambled to string | | | | was the red/orange bottom to the lure. When you |
| up my fishing rod, no time to waste I have trout to | | | | look at a Brown Trout as it is in spawning mode, the |
| catch. The walk down to the rivers edge is usually | | | | bottom of the fish looks red/orange. I wanted to |
| about eight minutes but I did it in five. I had the | | | | imitate a brown trout in spawning mode and thought |
| Brown Trout Rapala already hooked onto the line, | | | | the color scheme was perfect as I rummaged |
| then I laid my back pack down on the long brown | | | | through my tackle. Boy did I ever pick a winner. I |
| grass. My Tim Horton's coffee was put right next to | | | | walked back down to where I snapped my first lure |
| the back pack. I unhooked the lure and the first cast | | | | off and whipped my new selection as far as I could |
| was launched far into the river. | | | | outward. The same speed and technique was used |
| As the adrenalin surged through my body I cranked | | | | again with the same result, fish on. I came to a tree |
| the reel hoping for my first trout of the day. Nothing | | | | that was chewed by beavers and had dropped into |
| hit the Rapala for the first three casts. As the rush | | | | the river. This location usually holds big fish so I crept |
| of the first few casts subsided, I settled down and | | | | up to the tree and stood right beside it touching it |
| slowed the retrieve for the fish to catch up. You | | | | with my left hip. Casted out and twitched the lure a |
| know how it is when you first get to the river after | | | | few times before being gobbled up by a twenty five |
| a long break from fishing! After I calmed I hooked a | | | | inch brown. I never knew it was a brown until it |
| fifteen inch Rainbow Trout with a slow retrieve | | | | arrived at the bank side; this fish was acting very |
| combined with a slight twitch of the lure. I smiled and | | | | much like a rainbow. A few more casts beside the |
| released the scrappy little one back into the water. I | | | | tree and another monster brown was hooked up, he |
| walked a little bit down river and another Rainbow | | | | was so strong I backed off the drag to let him go |
| smashed the Rapala. Back and forth he went until I | | | | for a reel screaming run into the center of the Bow. |
| reeled him into the shoreline; he was the same size | | | | WOW what a fish, he made my day as that is what |
| as the first and just as pretty as he was powerful. | | | | I was looking for. |
| Off to a good start after only ten minutes of fishing. | | | | I could go on and on as I hook and landed twenty |
| I walked my way down stream and stopped at a | | | | two trout from one o'clock to three thirty. Four fish |
| slow section where the rapids were ending and the | | | | escaped from the barbless hooks of the Brook Trout |
| water became calm and smooth. I fired the Rapala | | | | Rapala Countdown. Do yourself a favor when the |
| far into the middle of the river and ripped the Rapala | | | | weather warms up like it did today, grab your fishing |
| as it dove down into the water, I rip the lure by | | | | rod and some of your favorite lures and drive down |
| reeling the line in and quickly picking up the rod tip | | | | to the Bow River. Stay a few hours and clean up on |
| high into the air from waist height to well over my | | | | those monster trout that are sitting the waiting for a |
| head. After lifting the rod well into the air I pick up | | | | meal. Take your time working the whole section you |
| the slack line and make the lure move again. As I let | | | | are fishing, twitching the lure slowly letting it pause |
| the lure sit in the water with no movement my next | | | | every so often. Remember the weather is warm but |
| trout clobbers my hook and proceeds to fly up out | | | | the water is getting very cold so slow is the speed |
| of the water, she is small and of the Brown Trout | | | | until the spring arrives. Take a few pictures and pass |
| species. I let her go and think to myself "I need your | | | | them along to me so I can post them on the Blog. |
| grandma or grandpa next". I walk a little further | | | | Enjoy the awesome trout fishing on the river in the |
| down and cast again, this time my line gets caught in | | | | winter months. December through until spring is the |
| the line holder attached to the reel and SNAP, the | | | | best time to fish the Bow River as the pressure is |
| lure goes flying off. | | | | low and the fish are huge. |