DonnieM

Yah I will throw in my two cents on the fly course as well. The Ghost Res to Cochrane section of the bow can be one tricky piece of water and you really need to know what to look for and where to fish. Spend the 150 bucks, learn your stuff and it will save you months if not years of head banging!

Smoked rocky mountain whitefish is by far one of the most delicious things you will ever eat, ever.

Oh god, I am addicted now! I just read your post about the fish eating a duck and came across this one......words cant express...

A friend of mine just sent me this and I felt like I needed to share. Didnt know bass were that aggressive... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlx4kqhT3I

Im not to picky, pretty much anywhere with white sand and the chance of 90 pound roosters is good enough for me haha.

Hey, welcome to one of the most beautiful little towns(or what used to be a little town) in the world. I grew up in Cochrane and have been flyfishing those parts since I was about 7 years old so Ill throw yah some advice because I know access can seem really daunting on the cochrane-banff stretch, or at least the cochrane to ghost lake part. Of course you have highway 40 not to far out of Cochrane on the way to Ghost lake, and if you look on a map of highway 40(The Forest Trunk Road) you will see a million little creeks that are fantastic fun, as someone earlier mentioned Barry Mitchells Trout Highway book is a good start. But if you want to fish the Bow this is my suggestion....at the big 4 way intersection where highway 22 crossects with the road to ghost lake you will see a little dirt road turn off that runs along the right hand side of west valley and along the railroad tracks. Now if you drive down that little dirt road(best if you have a 4x4 and some good tires but my grandpa used to do it in his 1988 buick when he lent out his truck to my uncle, oh what we do for good fishing). So if you follow that road down you come to a bridge....this is as far as I can tell you, cant tell yah specific spots.....but if you walk over that railroad bridge it gives you access to the entire stretch between cochrane and ghost lake, just depends how far your willing to walk Hope that helps a bit! PS...make sure you listen for trains before you run across the bridge...when I was about 15 me and a buddy were in the middle when one came around the bend and lets see I made it by the hair of my nose from becoming a pancake. Good luck!

Oh I got another one that was pretty bad. For some stupid reason when I was about 8 years old a buddy and me found some old fireworks in my basement, nothing crazy just those single light rockets. We thought we would be smart and we put a plastic bag over one of them and set it off in the kitchen...it made huge sparkles and went racing around the linoleum burning a little U shape into our floor. I was *hit scared so when my parents got home I said I had been cooking fried egg sandwiches and spilt some of the grease onto the linoleum and thats how it burnt....they believed me and I wasnt allowed to cook until I was 16 haha. They know the truth now 20 years later....lesson in point....dont leave fireworks for kids to find them in the basement!

When I was about 12 years old and started fly tying I may or may not have gotten the five finger discount from Jays Fly Shop in Cochrane on some elk hair due to not having enough allowance and a hard need for some elk hair caddis's. This is something I have always felt absolutely terrible about and the only time in my life I have ever really stolen something. And of course it was made all the worse by the tragic history of that shop. Im going to cry in the corner now and watch So You Think You Can Dance, which as another poster already said, is a bit of a secret pleasure. Wow, feels much better to say all that!

What you need to do is throw a few thousand 12" Bull Trout into there. Problem solved!

Great question. Yah know, I have had the opportunity to live in some of the most beautiful places in Canada....Tofino, Revelstoke, Canmore, Cochrane, but you know as much as I love each of those places, when my wife and I move back to Canada in a few years from here in Sweden I would really love to settle down in Longview, on the Highwood preferably. I find that place absolutely magical. Then again Tofino wasnt bad either, that would definately be my second choice =)

I dont care what anyone says, I will take smoked rocky mountain whitefish as my favourite smoked fish anyday! Reminds me of being a young teenager waking up at 5 am to bike down to the bow with my best friend and fish for em with maggots on #14s with weights made out of cloth hangers and have my grandpa smoke em up for us in Cochrane, nothing better than that.

Great Topic! Seeing as I am stuck in Sweden for this year instead of Calgary Ill have to make due with Scandanavia´s beautiful fishing! The season starts on March 31st here with some fantastic highland "eastern slope" like streams full of wild browns. Along with that there is some of the best sea trout fishing along the west coast here where I am living, I really want to get out for that, never fished for Sea Trout before. They also got some monstorous pike here that live in what they call "brackish" water, half salt, half freshwater, and they grow freaking ginormous....would love to take one on a mouse pattern or something crazy like that. And of course we cant forget about some amazing atlantic salmon fishing here as well, its going to be a busy spring and summer for me I think! This summer I have a week road trip planned up to the far north of Sweden into the "Lappland" they call it to chase some Char and untouched stocks of wild browns. Should be fun! In September its back to Calgary for a month and hopefully a chance to take part in the Canadian Nationals if someone has an opening on a team or needs one more? Let me know! Just in Canada for the month of September but I really want to get out to my one true love, the Highwood, the Bow of course and while in BC after some steelies. After September probably down to Mexico / Central America for a month or two chasing some Roosters. Oh man my feet are getting itchy now, why cant the season start now!

Another great video man! Keeps the dull winter blues away!

Haha! I was just down in Mexico not to long ago fishing around the Barra de Navidad area, we caught so many puffers on clousers from the beach while going for roosters, they are damn aggressive man, thank god for long pliers =)

Nobody ever told you that the reason why baby kittens die is because you "flyfish by yourself" at night......