As the Crow Flies Map information

We're Richard Burke, a former newspaper and magazine editor and now journalism instructor and Mike Lamb, a former outdoors and environment reporter/writer who decided over a coffee to publish a map called As the Crow Flies. The map, sold in many fly shops in Alberta, contains tips on how to fish the Crowsnest River as some of the area's oldtimers (not necessarily us - we're not that old) have fished it. We've figured that the combined fishing experience of our sources is over 200 years. The map also provides easy directions to access points, detailed hatch information from a number of fisheries biologists and long-time fly fishers and a directory to some of the bed and breakfast establishments and sports shops in the Pass and elsewhere in Southern Alberta.

The map, which fits easily into your vest, points to key access locations along the Crowsnest River, measured in kilometers from the eastern access to Bellevue. Bellevue is not too far from the centre point of the 40 km-long river, which flows from Crowsnest Lake at the B.C.-Alberta boundary and into the Oldman Reservoir north of Lundbreck.

A narrative provides valuable information on the river's fishing history, productivity, insect populations and flies that work. One page offers details on the prolific hatches throughout the year.

You can get a copy of the map by sending a note with your address and check for $5, payable to Caddis Shack Publications, #1313-7th Ave. S., Lethbridge, Alta. T1J 1K9. We'll mail you a map promptly. We've met requests from flyfishers in places such as Winston-Salem, N.C., Sacramento, Calif., Oklahoma City, Okla., Richmond, Va., Locust, NJ, Winnipeg, Man., Prince Rupert, B.C., Eureka, Cal., Prince Albert, Sask., Roswell, Ga. and Marshfield, Wis.