Crackmacs
07-15-2013, 01:42 PM
Camped overnight at Travers dam provincial park. Didn't catch anything on Saturday July 13th, Sunday was much better.
Ended up catching 4 fish myself.
In Travers I caught a juvenile Pike (from the docks of the Bible camp before they kicked us out - didn't know it was private), a whitefish from the docks at Little Bow provincial park, a tiny baby walleye at those same docks, and finally a rainbow trout out of the Bow river.
I kept the whitefish and rainbow.
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/jXRtHfp.jpg
Travers
The water was clear, warm, with very little wind in the morning. By early afternoon it started getting REALLY windy. There were entire families fishing from the Little Bow campground docks, so we headed north to McGregor for some Pike.
McGregor Lake
Went to two places. First was the southern bridge just north of the spillway between the lakes. Water was pretty clear, clean, but the wind was relentless. Saw someone pull up a big walleye here. We then went north to the rock damn. The water up there was very dirty and full of debris. We were casting towards the wind so it was horrible haha. Didn't stay long.
Bow river
Decided to stop off at the Bow on the way back to Calgary, near De winton or whatever its called. Down by the new south hospital. The water was pretty dirty still. Lost around $20 in lures within 30 minutes, but, ended up catching the above rainbow on a basic little spinner. Friend caught a trout himself, but it was the size of a large goldfish, back it went.
I've never caught a rainbow before. It fought harder than anything else I've ever caught.
Really had a good day out. Lots of sun and Tim's.
Ended up catching 4 fish myself.
In Travers I caught a juvenile Pike (from the docks of the Bible camp before they kicked us out - didn't know it was private), a whitefish from the docks at Little Bow provincial park, a tiny baby walleye at those same docks, and finally a rainbow trout out of the Bow river.
I kept the whitefish and rainbow.
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/jXRtHfp.jpg
Travers
The water was clear, warm, with very little wind in the morning. By early afternoon it started getting REALLY windy. There were entire families fishing from the Little Bow campground docks, so we headed north to McGregor for some Pike.
McGregor Lake
Went to two places. First was the southern bridge just north of the spillway between the lakes. Water was pretty clear, clean, but the wind was relentless. Saw someone pull up a big walleye here. We then went north to the rock damn. The water up there was very dirty and full of debris. We were casting towards the wind so it was horrible haha. Didn't stay long.
Bow river
Decided to stop off at the Bow on the way back to Calgary, near De winton or whatever its called. Down by the new south hospital. The water was pretty dirty still. Lost around $20 in lures within 30 minutes, but, ended up catching the above rainbow on a basic little spinner. Friend caught a trout himself, but it was the size of a large goldfish, back it went.
I've never caught a rainbow before. It fought harder than anything else I've ever caught.
Really had a good day out. Lots of sun and Tim's.