fly noob looking for spots N/NE of calgary

[kwirky]

I work in the northeast and live off the 564 (country hills) east of the city 10 km. I've been looking for spots to practice my fly fishing after work and on the weekends. Any advice? I'm real new to fly fishing and don't have waders yet either so for the moment it'd have to be bank fishing.

I plan on keeping the rod & fly gear in the car for when the weather seems good and I have some spare time.

[nicemustang]

You likely live within 5 minutes of me, I'm in prairie royale estates off rr 284

A while back someone posted about Bruce lake. I've been there and it's pretty nice to fish in the summer appearantly... http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showt...ighlight=bruce

Otherwise Chestermere is good too. Dewitts pond near Airdrie.

[kwirky]

dewitts sounds perfectly close. I'll go try it out a few times this week hopefully. I found data that they stocked it in 2002 with over a thousand fish. I wonder if that's a yearly thing?

Thanks for the help!

[jts1]

Yes it is here is a link to the stocking report for this year

http://www.mywildalberta.com/documents/2009Stocking.pdf

[kwirky]

thanks for that link to the stocking report. Based on that info I might go the extra distance to mt. lorette ponds too because they're stocked with fish that are worth taking home. I wonder if they're still frozen right now with the weather we've been having.

[nicemustang]

It is long since thawed, but probably fished out already. It's busy and easy to get to and gets fished out in few weeks. Bruce lake....catching pike on the fly....sounds super fun and really close to your house.