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The Great Canadian Trout Robbery | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. The Great Canadian Trout Robbery. January 11, 2015. ADAMS RIVER, B.C. On a warm spring day in 1906, a few sidings down the line from here at Monte Creek on Van Horne’s railway, Gentleman Bill Miner held up the CPR mail train. The Great Canadian Train Robbery, such as it was, didn’t net Miner and his accomplices, Shorty Dunn and Louis Colquhoun, much. They were eating lunch at the time. 8220;Gentleman” Bill Miner. With one notable exception Bill Miner. Always going about hi...

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. January 17, 2015. By NEIL WAUGH My whitetail deer hunt so far this fall has gone from bad to worse to downright ugly. Coyote Ugly. I’m not talking about the movie. […]. Read Article →. The Great Canadian Trout Robbery. January 11, 2015. By NEIL WAUGH ADAMS RIVER, B.C. On a warm spring day in 1906, a few sidings down the line from here at Monte Creek on Van Horne’s […]. Read Article →. The Boggy Hall Incident. January 4, 2015. Read Article →. Where Has My Easy Gone? The Bog...

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The Boggy Hall Incident | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. The Boggy Hall Incident. January 4, 2015. Boggy Hall Oil Lease. The Boggy Hall Incident. I was hunting ruffed grouse around Boggy Hall the other day. OK, maybe not right at the fort. Nobody likely knows the exact location of this extreme outpost of the Northwest Company’s far-flung empire of fur. More like its spiritual locality somewhere on the west bank of the North Saskatchewan River below the mouth of the Baptiste. David Thompson Statue Invermere, B.C. Except when fur ...

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Hard Rock Pike | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. August 31, 2014. Old Town Yellowknife NWT. YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. Along Ragged Ass Road in Yellowknife’s Old Town, someone has sunk a few old, rusty air drills into a chunk of schist. I’m not sure if it’s Yellowknife greenstone. But it would be pretty poignant. Yellowknife is a hard rock town. And greenstone is the part of the pre-Cambrian shield that made it famous. But it’s not really the same, somehow. Ragged Ass Road Air Drill Memorial. Except the Hark Rock Pike. Carlos i...

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Beaver Fever | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. September 13, 2014. YELLOW DOG LODGE, N.W.T. Yvonne Quick herself a former bush pilot was giving me a tour of Old Town Yellowknife, when she mentioned casually, Would you like to meet Max Ward? I’m pretty sure the last time I was up front and personal with Edmonton’s legendary frontier pilot was on an Everett, Wash. press junket in the late 70s. To pick up the latest addition to Max’s Wardair fleet a massive Boeing 747 Queen of the Skies jumbo jet. It was my time to go too.

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To Find the Fish of Franklin | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. To Find the Fish of Franklin. September 29, 2014. McRae River, NWT. TEED FALLS, N.W.T. I’ve come to this pleasant constriction of the McRae River in a Grumman canoe, propelled by Yellow Dog Lodge guide Kirsten Tarves, around two portages to find the fish of Capt. John Franklin. The same fated Arctic explorer who the late/great Stan Rogers sings about in Northwest Passage, possibly Canada’s best folk-roots song. For just one time I would take the Northwest Passage. In Augus...

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ABOUT | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. Hunting and angling in Alberta has a deep heritage that extends back to the settlers of this great land. One cannot appreciate the sportsman life without also cherishing in the rich history that has come before us. I’ve been writing and photographing the Alberta West and beyond for more than 30 years. The politics, the people, the fish and game. Come and enjoy the trip. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). The Boggy Hall Incident.

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Coyote Ugly | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. January 17, 2015. My whitetail deer hunt so far this fall has gone from bad to worse to downright ugly. I’m not talking about the movie. Which is about a cowboy tavern in New York City (now there’s an oxymoron) where the cocktail waitresses dressed fashionably in their Daisy Dukes randomly get up on the bar and dance. I once randomly got up on a bar in Park City, Utah. Not to dance but to play my bagpipes. It was a rugby club road trip, don’t ask. Is nothing real anymore?

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Where Has My Easy Gone? | neilwaughoutdoors

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Flyfishing, hunting in Alberta. Where Has My Easy Gone? December 27, 2014. Eastern Irrigation District Pheasant Ditch. Where Has My Easy Gone? The other night I caught Ray Bonneville’s fine show at Festival Place. After chasing ditch parrots in the wilds of Palliser’s Land it was nice to kick back and let Ray do the heavy lifting. Something southern Alberta pheasant hunters can connect with. Convincing recalcitrant settlers to buy these railroad lands in Palliser’s desert would always be a problem. About...