I was rushing to complete my daily duties at work so I could find a couple of hours to get out and fish. With the weather being above normal for this time of year, I might as well take advantage of it when I have the chance. I arrived at the river at two thirty and was grateful the sun was shining on my face. I recently went looking for new tackle on the internet and searched Bass Pro Shops online tackle store for hours on end. I do this because there are just certain lures that I cannot get a hold of in my local tackle stores. What I look for is different colors and different sizes that are unavailable here in Calgary, Alberta. I came across a familiar lure to me being the Rapala X-Rap, but on Bass Pro Shops site there are four different colors I cannot buy here. I went ahead and bought four Rapala’s in the color pink.
As I have noticed that there are more Brown’s showing up on the end of my hook lately, I choose to tie this new shiny pink Rapala onto my six pound Berkley Trilene XT monofilament and heave it out into the clear cold water of the Bow River. This is no joke folks, my very first cast with this little gem and wham-o, fish on. I slowly retrieved what at first I thought was a big Brown, but as I began to get a better look at the fish; it became clear that this was a Rainbow Trout.
I guess it pays to do your tackle shopping online these days. The fishing never really slowed down from that point on. I was successful in catching six large Rainbow Trout and three Brown’s that were very decent in their own right. Why you might ask do I shop online for my fishing hooks when I have three major stores right here in Calgary? It is quite simple, online tackle stores like Bass Pro Shops have different colored lures, they have lures that are smaller or larger than I can get here, they have hooks that I just plain do not see in my local tackle store period. I believe that I have a better chance of hooking into fish as a result of presenting the Trout something they may have never seen before!
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