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Beauty. Too bad it is where it is.
Don't know about that. I cruised thru Calgary on the Bow and then hit the foothills all the way down to the Crowsnest. It was sure great to see green pine trees!! There is some truly beautiful country and beautiful fish there as well as here.Beauty. Too bad it is where it is.
Unfortunately the quality trout lakes in Alberta are few and far between. As far as I have seen thus far there are two here that would parallel Interior/Cariboo lakes and they are Beaver Lake (near Rocky Mountain House) and Swan Lake (south of Grande Prairie) which is 75 minutes from my house. Both lakes have bomber chironomids and Swan is a carbon copy of Tunkwa with a mud bottom and max. depth of 17'. Though icefishing and bait are both permissable a good population of large fish are spared for the flyfishermen in the spring. Swan also has nine aerators to ensure successful overwintering.My preferences for Alberta rivers in order are the Bow, and Crowsnest. Have fished many others, and many are fun enough but these eclipse much else there., it seems to me. Once in AB fishing, one should not ignore some of the small lakes for good rainbow and cut fishing as well.
On several trips years ago, I fished Wabasca and Lesser Slave lakes as well as others for big pike and walleye on big flies and had an absolute blast. Shortly afterwards I bought my 8 weight Sage rod and a half decent reel...