Hey, I'm going to Jasper at the end of the month and was told there is still lots of open water to be found on the Athabasca. As I am fairly new to flyfishing and not very good i was hoping someone could give me some insight as to strategy, and fly choice. I know to look for the deepest slowest pools i can at this time of year, but other than that i am nearly clueless. Any info will help, thanks very much!
You'll be fishing for bull trout, yeah deepest spot you can find use medium sized streamers and nymphs bigger nyphms , I've never fly fished for them in the winter but I would think the action will be really slow. Don't worry if you don't catch any just happy you can get a couple false casts In while everyone else is dreaming of doing so .
If you look in last Saturday's paper Neil Waugh caught a hog from the athab nice little write up I have a feeling this is why may have prompted ur curiosity
Jasper in January
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