It was a beauty of a day to get out to the eastern slopes west of Red Deer to chase our West Slope Cutthroat Trout! After a quick check of the flow rates at Alberta River Basins (there is a new web site this year), my neighbour, Colin, and I knew that the river was not in perfect shape but fishable. After weaving through some construction, we arrived. We were early but the weather to start the day was emphasized by a chinook arch. We knew wind was going to be a factor too!
Well the cutthroat were hungry and quite active. There were no significant hatches but a size 8 or 10 wiggle worm certainly got the attention of the cutthroat. The key was getting lots of split shot on the line because the river was flowing high and fast.
We fished through 6 runs today. All the runs had active cutthroat!
The weather changed to a rain shower or two, then to heavy wind and once in a while we had beautiful sunshine. Typical eastern slopes weather.
Please be careful to take care and make safe decisions this upcoming long weekend. The rivers are high and fast.
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