Find Your Water Throwback

It’s been four years since we filmed S1/Ep6 of the Redington Find Your Water series. We had so much fun working with our friends at Redington and KGB Productions on this video. It was really cool to show them around our neck of the woods and give a little insight into how we approach our time on the water.

A lot has changed in the last four years since filming this. We got married, bought a house, travelled some more, and our little boy, Lochlan, entered our lives. Now days on the river with our 2.5 year old look substantially different then how they looked in this video. We work a lot around Lochlan’s routine and know when to call it quits if he just isn’t having it. What’s not different? Our passion for fly fishing. And Brendan and I still have that competitive streak, however, Brendan tends to remain inpatient in his approach and I am still very easy going in mine ;)

If you haven’t seen the video, check it out below!

---

---

And be sure to check out all the other great videos from the Find Your Water series as well as Redington’s new hilarious series, In The Loop, with the one and only Bob Frankfurter.

Travel Alberta & Women in Fly Fishing

During the past decade that I have been fly fishing it has been truly amazing to see so many women getting involved in the sport and enjoying the outdoors. When I started fly fishing more routinely in 2009 it was thanks to my boyfriend at the time (who is now my husband) that I even started getting back into it. I went from taking the odd photo of the fish he caught to catching fish myself. The only other woman I personally knew that fly fished was my sister in law, Timbre. Fast forward 10 years and you are seeing women’s only fly fishing groups, women-run fly fishing magazines and brands. It’s not to say that it wasn’t there before but it’s certainly more prevalent now, largely thanks to social media I am sure. The best part of it all is seeing women supporting women and many resources available now to those wanting to start out.

So it was definitely cool to meet up with my friend Paula Shearer and two other female anglers (Kate & Ruth) for an afternoon of fly fishing on the Bow River. We were invited together by Travel Alberta to chat a bit about what fly fishing means to us and why we do it. We had lots of laughs and even caught a couple fish (well I lost my fish but Paula landed a nice rainbow :D ).

Thanks to Travel Alberta and Theresa Tayler for giving us the opportunity to talk about why we love fly fishing and supporting women getting into the sport. Another thanks to Roth & Ramberg for their great photos as it’s so rare that I am in-front of the camera, usually I am always the one taking the picture.

You can check out the article by clicking the button below.

Until next time!

Winters Chill

We recently had the opportunity to write a blog post for the Redington Stories page on their website talking about fly fishing in the winter and what it means to us.

If you live in Calgary you know first hand the rollercoaster that is the winter season. We are lucky enough to have chinook days where the temps warm up to t-shirt weather only to have them plummet the next day to ridiculous levels of cold. I read a headline the other day that Calgary’s daytime highs were lower then the daytime highs on Mars? How is that even possible.

So it’s cold. It’s not ideal. Do you fish? Do you stay home? You can read our post by clicking the button below and find out what we typically do on a winters day. **Keep in mind this is a winter day where the temperature is a normal -5C to -10C, not the -25c we have seen consistently for the last 2 weeks.. we aren’t that crazy!

NEW WEBSITE

We have finally found the time to update our website. We hope that the update is much easier to use and better features our work. Here on the blog we will be posting much more regularly and the bulk of our posts will be about exciting things we have in the works as well as fly tying methods and instruction from Brendan. 

We hope you follow along. Leave us some feedback and let us know what you think or even what you'd like to see more of on the blog!

- A&B