Fly Fishing Maligne Lake is so much more than just chasing brookies and rainbows. The entire Maligne Lake area is so spectacular! Karen and I had an opportunity to take our twin grandsons to Maligne Lake for 4 days. Edwin and Oliver are seasoned campers at the age of 10 years old. We planned on fly fishing as well as exploring well down the lake. After a 5 hour drive to Jasper, we loaded up Big Blue, our 18 foot prospector canoe. Karen, Edwin, Oliver and I loaded up and headed 14 km down the lake to Fisherman's Bay. The weather was quite unsettled and we got thunderstorms twice. We just pulled off and tucked into a bay until the storms passed. After a big supper, we toured over to Spirit Island for a look! It is a very sacred place and we wanted to take a look!
The next morning, we rigged up our fly rods and checked out several bays after a big breakfast. Oliver hooked into a nice brookie and we got into several sizeable brookies and rainbows at a stream mouth. We kept a few for dinner. They were delicious. Edwin lost a monster brook trout near shore, he was sad! I had set up a double anquor system on the canoe and we also brought our Garmin fish finder. We used the Garmin to both look for fish and to find structure.
Day three, we moved back towards Hidden Bay. We caught some brookies dangling with chironomids. We then set up camp at Hidden Bay after watching a cow moose eat in a bay! My one grandson, Oliver, and I chased some big rainbows that were sipping down travelling sedges. Oliver was able to catch two on his own. That was so thrilling to watch and help. He used Landon Myers brown micro leech about three feet below a strike indicator!
Karen and I took a step back from fly fishing. We made a point of trying to help our grandsons catch some fish. They learned the importance of good fish handling practices as well as good camping practices.
The twins love to camp, explore and just hang out too. That was just plain fun in itself!
Well the 4 days passed way too fast. Karen and I were always on the hop. The boys were so much fun to camp with. They told us how much fun the trip was and they wanted to do more soon, real soon. Well alright then, time to plan more trips!
Edwin caught this brook trout dangling with a size 16 black and red chironomid.
Micro leeches worked great too!
Glen's Leech helped Oliver catch this brookie!
Oliver learning to cast. He did very well.
Got this rainbow on a blueflash damsel streamer!
Taking in the view.
Oliver tangling with a sizeable rainbow.
Just hanging out!
Heading home on day 4!...sigh!
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