Alberta 2022

About a year ago August,  I got an email from my favorite rocker Paul Kype – famous Fishing Guide and Headliner in the band Texas Flood – of a beautiful Rainbow Trout.   I recognized the silver beauty as a classic St Mary’s River rainbow.  It had a small head,  girthy body and perfect pink fins. …

Flyfishing Alberta

Damn, It seems that I managed to book the “best dry fly fishing in the world” at the worst time ever.  River X was a big ZERO.  The river was blown out by water release in the reservoir and we spent the week at the Rocky Ridge Bed and Breakfast fishing the local pond–Dipping Dot Reservoir  (actual…

Flyfishing the Palmer Ponds

Summer is over and I wish I fished more this year.  In retrospect,  one of the best days I had was not catching one fish–the day I spent at the Palmer Ranch in Alberta fishing for large cruising fish in shallow ponds.   The epiphany of the day was , “I think I need a small compact expandable net…