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 This weeks entry of Getting Started - Fly Fishing for Trout on Southern Alberta Rivers will be focused on what newer fly anglers options are for Fly Rod and Reel outfits, as well as suggestions for what flies to put in your starter fly box. Let’s take a look at some fly rod outfits first.  We briefly touched on this in week 1 but the barrier to entry for fly fishing has lowered with the introduction of high quality, moderately priced fly rods. We will start by looking at the...

As most of you know we're pike and musky fishing nuts here at O.F.F. Fly Shop.  Our spring pike fishing season will soon be upon us and we couldn't be more excited to be back chasing toothy critters on the fly!  With the advent of new tying materials such as the Wiggletails, Dragontails and the NEW for 2018 Mangum Dragontails, there's some exciting new materials that can really ramp up your pike, musky and predatory fly game.  They'll also make your tying, cleaner, simpler and easier, so its a real win...

With our trip to Ambergris Caye in Belize just three weeks away, I've started thinking about what's in my saltwater fly box and what I need to get tying. On my list of crab and shrimp patterns is the Avalon Fly. Originally developed by Mauro Ginevri in the early 2000s to improve the success of catching permit in Cuba, the Avalon Fly has quickly proven to be a saltwater fly box standard. While I didn't get a permit, I did get some other fish on this fly on my trip...

 This week on Getting Started - Fly Fishing for Trout on Southern Alberta Rivers we will be looking at the Trout Species of Alberta and highlighting some of the popular rivers to fish in the area. Let’s start by looking at the Trout species of Alberta. Rainbow Trout - While Rainbows are native to Alberta, they are native to only the Athabasca and Peace River systems. The Rainbows in the Bow river are a McCloud River strain from Southern California and were introduced around the 1920s. The defining characteristic of...

“Mr. Hooper, I’m not talkin’ about pleasure boatin’ or daily sailin’, I’m talkin’ about workin’ for a livin’, I’m talking about sharkin’!” ~Quint Humans have been fishing for sharks eons before JAWS came out in 1975. But suddenly sharks appearing on angler's bucket lists everywhere. Fly fishing for sharks isn't new, but the topic has come up in the shop a lot more often of late. Angler's Eye Media's film "Mako" presented in this year's IF4 I'm sure has a lot to do with it. It's exhilarating big game action, and...

Do you ever approach a new stream (or your ever-frustrating home waters) and wonder just where the trout are? Trout position themselves in slower water adjacent to faster moving water to feed on the food zooming by while expending the least amount of energy possible. But then there are tailouts. Pillows. Riffles. Foam lines. What does it all mean? Improve your hydro-literacy with this recent video presented by Orvis' Tom Rosenbauer. I found this video especially helpful at about 10:35 when guide Molly Seminuk explains where to fish on large rivers...