The Bow River GRIND is a beautiful thing

In this video I am back fly fishing the Bow River around Calgary, Alberta, while out visiting family in the summer. This video spans 3 separate trips out at 3 different spots. The first day I met up with an early supporter and now friend, Rhetzky, who hooked the only fish, a nice looking 14-16 incher, on my streamer rod - sadly to lose the fish a few seconds later. We got the drone up in the air and took some cool aerial footage of the Bow River. The next session was a quick explore and didn't pan out, despite one missed hookset in good streamer water. Finally, the GRIND paid off at the third, nicest spot I visited. The Bow River Killer fly, a brown-red hybrid steelie worm, on the bottom of a drop shot rig, is always a good choice for big brown trout. This fish gave me a hell of a fight and took me down with the current, only to be landed in a nice eddy and released pretty quickly thereafter. All in all, I consider the bow river grind to be a beautiful thing when it all pays off in the end! Thanks for watching - I know this is a longer video but hopefully it's one you enjoy with coffee or in the background while doing chores! ;)

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0:00 - Preview
1:15 - Session 1
15:36 - Session 2
19:52 - Session 3
25:31 - Hook up

[curtissnyder]

My two sons and I had a 5 hour drift down the Bow on Thanksgiving weekend with Logan Whitehouse at Blue Ribbon tours. Absolutely fabulous crew. We each got a half dozen rainbows with one brown. Thrill of a lifetime for us east coasters who are lucky to get a 15 inch speckled. Love your video.

[bowriver]

nice brown at my favourite starting point on the Bow. I've been fishing there for 50+ years. There sure are a lot more folks fishing there now, but we're still pulling these beauties out of there every day. Nice video!

[headfakez]

one of my fav river !! glad to see you back in action!

[KeepCastingNW]

Beautiful fish, what a memory for you 🙌

[P.N.W.adventures]

When you’re in Vancouver area once again, would you mind trying out Gold Creek in golden ears park? I heard it has some nice bulls as well as resident rainbows. Love your content, tight lines!

[rhetzkyflyfishing]

It's exciting to see the bow again on this channel. Beautiful video, thanks for the recognition! Hopefully we can get back out there sometime and have a little more luck.

[whales]

Haven't fished the Bow for a few years now, really miss it when I watch videos like this. Amazing video and nice brown you caught. Tight fishing...

[iancollings]

The birds understood their assignments. So much nice water to cover, do you ever see people fishing double hand Scandi set ups?

[joevales]

Good fight, beautiful fish, and amazing footage. Thank you for sharing!

[driftstone]

That was hella generous of @troutflies to grant you permission to use his song!

That brown was a-mazing! Congrats

[rachaelsorsabal]

My heart started racing when you hooked up with that big brown!

[AlbertaFlyFishingAdventure-fv]

Wasn't it Livingstone at the end?😏

[Rjhn]

I used to live within a 5 minute drive to multiple spots on the Bow, all in the same area this video is in (deep south)... Congrats on the great Brown !
There's an old video on my channel where I caught a nice one close to where you were, across from Fish Creek Park. 👍🏻

[pmdun]

Welcome back to Cowtown! I don't want to disclose your location but you might want to know that drones are prohibited in this area.

[avid.venture]

Oh heck yeah! I’m drifting and filming 40km of the bow next week 🙌🏻

[warrenman-son-hing]

* WARNING* Illegal to use a drone in Alberta Provincial Parks, you are clearly flying a drone in Fish Creek Provincial Park. No excuse for ignoring the law.

[DrWylde]

Been depressed for a while and havent gone fishing much, i honestly really miss it when i watch videos.
I know once i force myself out to fish, id be in my happy place again.

[theycallmerj]

im sorry in "season 3" that guy on the its a long handle omg

[PrayMojo]

It's been about 14 years since I fished the bow. I used to fish around 22x when I was a kid, like '99. Makes me kinda sad and happy seeing it. Where the hell has time gone. 😢

[ds-sjbm]

Man multiple hooks on a line just feels wrong. Do they even make you go barbless there?