Elk River near Fernie, BC

After watching this video about the Elk River near Fernie in British Columbia, I had a flash back.

The Elk river is one of the prettier rivers I've fished. I fished the Elk river in 1998. A few years earlier I was supposed to make a nice float trip down the Elk river on a pontoon boat with my friend Doug, but that fell threw due to his busy schedules.

Last time I saw the Elk river was in 2005 when I drove highway number 3 which runs next to the river for miles, on my way to Doug in Coeur D'Alene in Idaho. Why didn't I just stop and toss a fly?...

Just over the borders of Alberta, about an hour drive from the Crowsnest River, the Elk river meanders through valley along the continental divide of the Canadian Rockies. Home of lots of wild cutthroats and bull trouts. There are some tributaries of the Elk river that's famous for large cutthroats. I still wished I had fished the Wigwam river...

The picture I took of the house with the bright red roof is located near the road ending at the Elk river. I always wondered how nice it would be to live in that house right next to the banks of the Elk…

By the way, do you recognize the other picture? :)