Some Days Guiding Can be Rather Tough

The sky became darker and darker. Larry Prowse, Phil Rowley and I had 9 guests out on the water. We were at Twin Lakes north of Roblin, Manitoba. About mid afternoon, the deluge began. The volume of rain was amazing. My boat had 3 inches of water in it when we headed to the dock. We were all soaked. Our rain coats were put to the test. The intense rain battered us for almost two hours. Now that was just crazy!

...and yes, the fly fishing was still pretty good!

...all images courtesy of Ron Blaikie!

A Manitoba Provincial Tiger Trout Record

At some point, it had to happen. One of our gang tied into a record breaker. Michael Burgess was fly fishing with our very own Larry Prowse. Michael was chironomid fly fishing at Twin Lakes near Roblin, Manitoba. Larry netted Michael's record setting fish. It is an amazing trophy caught on a size 12 chironomid. The old record was 28 inches but this monster topped out at 30.5 inches!

...Scott Fink photo

Sight Fishing for Brown Trout in 2 feet of Water in Manitoba

Larry and I spent a Sunday afternoon stalking brown trout in the Parkland Region of Manitoba at Patterson Lake. The browns were chasing forage fish well in behind the tules. We had to work the big 1756 G3 into position with lots of pushing and grunting but once set up, we saw several aggressive browns busting minnows. We set our indicators at 10 inches and then the fun began. Casting three or four feet in front of a feeding brown worked great. One twitch, let the bruised leech or ice minnow settle, usually got the attention of the cruising browns. It was one awesome afternoon! We used stout tippet because we were fighting these fish in very tight quarters. Who knew that browns would hit a fly only 10 inches below a strike indicator.