Yearly Archives: 2019

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Rosebud is a beautiful little lake within a quick drive of Trail and Castlegar that is notorious for its feast or famine type fishing.

With May’s warm weather, the black ant hatch is one of the highlights for angler on the Columbia as trout feed heavily on these terrestrials.

With the Columbia’s big water and powerful current, using fast, full-sink type 6-7 line to get your pattern down is key.

With two rods in the water we landed and released 23 rainbow and probably lost 12-18 fish. Most of the trout were in the 18-19 inch range.

Since BC Hydro began regulating flows to prevent redd dewatering the trout population has grown at least 10-fold.

Kokanee fishing on Lower Arrow Lake and the Columbia River below Keenleyside Dam is heating up.

This report covers four days of fishing with clients from April 24 to April 27. Most trout landed were between 16 and 20 inches.

I nymphed for about 3 hours. In that time I caught and released nine rainbows ranging in size from about 16 to 20 inches.

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