A trip to the Crowsnest sounded good today. We left just before 7am and got there in just a hair over 3 hrs from Red Deer. A good day. The fishing was slow to start, until we finally found a bit deeper trough above Al & Shirl's place. With the river so low there's a long empty, really shallow void right now. Got closer to Sarah's and the midges kicked in about the same time we arrived. From 1 to 4 the fishing was quite good on dries and nymphs. We quit about 6 and as we walked the tracks back to the car, the skies opened up. An instant wallop of snow. It made for an interesting drive back, right at freezing with a heavy headwind and just dumping snow at that horrible, slimey, greasy freezing mark. By the time it was dark, at Clareholm, it was really coming down. Things got worse north of there. We were doing 85kmh when a little rut kicked me out and I did 4 or 5, 90 degree fishtails. The good news is I was in the middle of the northbound ashpalt (goodness knows what lane I was in or where the lines were) and I kept her on track. We clicked on the radio to hear about the winter storm of a foot of snow for the southland. They're getting it alright!
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