Boating and Fishing
Boat trips can be taken on Lake Minnewanka , as can fishing trips, which can be arranged through Lake Minnewanka Boat Tours (tel 762-3473). Monod Sports, 129 Banff Ave (tel 762-4571), have all-day drift-boat fishing trips on the Bow River and Nakoda Lake for cutthroat and bull trout plus brown and brook trout (both are catch and release, meaning you have to put any caught fish back into the water) at $375 for two people and walk and wade trips ($110 per person): trips include guide, instruction, tackle, wader, drinks and food. Beginner fly-fishers can take an instructional tour with the company. Banff Fishing Unlimited (tel 762-4936) have Bow River float trips and walk and wade trips (from $100 per person) and half-day fishing cruises on Lake Minnewanka ($80 per person in a group of six). Similar trips are also offered by Adventures Unlimited (tel 762-4554). Tackle can be hired from Performance Ski and Sports, 208 Bear St (tel 762-8222). Remember you need a national park licence to fish, available for $6 a week, $13 a year, from tackle shops, most of the above companies or the information centre. If you want to rent canoes for paddling on the Vermilion Lakes or quiet stretches of the Bow River, contact Bow River Canoe Docks ($16 an hour, $40 a day; tel 762-3632); the dock is on the river at Wolf Street. Or learn to kayak on the Bow with Alpine Adventures (tel 678-8357; six-hour course $99).
Your Tip for Banff
Help other backpackers! Write your own guides and backpacking tips to Banff - they will appear instantly on this page - Please only write a tip/guide to Banff - visit the main Banff forum to ask a question!
Please do not post links to your site here (they won't work) - please use the Banff webguide section below! Thanks.
| 
