Karen found a backcountry camping cancellation in one of our favourite areas to fly fish in Banff National Park. The Yellowstone Cutthroat in one of the lakes are so beautifully coloured and so aggressive. Well we quickly loaded up our hiking gear and headed to Banff National Park. It took us 5 hours to get our gear to the backcountry campsite. That included climbing over a mountain pass that was adorned in wild flowers! We fly fished a creek during the afternoon but we were looking forward to the next day. The cutthroat trout fly fishing included a tough grind up another pass and then negotiating a rock fall to get to the high mountain lake. We had been there a number of times. We have never seen other fishermen there. These cutthroat love chernobyls. The high floating foam flies fished along drop offs had us into fish all day! It is so cool to watch a cutthroat come from the depths to intercept our flies. We were lucky to have an amazing day weather wise. We thankfully had enough wind to keep the bugs at bay. We had a spectacular day of fly fishing. The 44 km of walking in some of the most spectacular areas of Banff National Park was a great way to celebrate both our birthdays. We feel very lucky that we are still able to do these trips.
Cone on the Cob- A Tradition after a great hike!
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