How Often Do You Think You Drive Right By A Great Small Stream Fishing Hole?
Most often the small streams that I fish are running out of the high peaks of the Alberta Rockies. I have many times fished the Oldman for Cutts and Bulls where I could reach the other side in 2 steps. Other times I am miles from the Rockies fishing tiny tributaries of the Bow or Red Deer Rivers, canals running through the southern Alberta Prairie, or town runoff drainage creeks. Small streams of different types all contain there own challenges and require there own unique tackle. Small mountain trout streams require ultra light tackle with light lines and small lures. Pike filled prairie canals require medium action rods and heavy tackle to fight the monster toothy creatures. Small streams often contain far better water clarity than rivers or lakes. Therefore fish are much more easily spooked in them. It can take a stealthy approach to fish a small stream. Trout are notoriously easily spooked. Never approach a small stream with the sun at your back as your shadow will almost certainly scare any hungry trout into a reclusive hidey hole. 
The thing that I most enjoy about fishing the smaller streams that I have access to is the solidarity in fishing them, alone, just me and the fish, me and nature. It gives me the chance to enjoy fishing in its simplest form, to critique my techniques, try new things to see how a fish reacts to a certain presentation, to lay under the big birch tree casting a shadow over the water and watch the mayflies skirt the surface of a calm pool. There is something just more relaxing about a small stream, not pressure, no watchers and judges, just me and my rod bringing it all back to where I began. I can often walk the shores of a new stream and never catch a fish, it’s the childhood exploratory instinct that keep me going, charting territory previously uncharted by me. A new adventure in what has become a fairly repetitive lifestyle I live. I just makes small stream fishing feel great.So for those of you who fish the same rivers or lakes all year around, head out and do some small stream fishing and try something new, or old. You never know what you will catch or what kind of adventure you could have.
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