About Us

Our guided trips are designed for those anglers wanting to fly-fish lakes, ponds and reservoirs. We specialize in introductory stillwater fly fishing clinics by teaching you what is needed to become successful in the art, science, sport and passion that is fly fishing.

Our Mission

Fly-fishing stillwaters are both fun and relaxing. Edmonton's local trout lakes offer anglers close-to-home convenience and exceptional opportunities when rivers are off-color or high due to spring runoff or foul weather. Our mission is to introduce new fly-anglers, fly-fishermen from out of town, or anglers new to the Edmonton area, to the numerous local trout lakes at an affordable price. New float tube or pontoon boat owners or someone wishing to try fishing before making a tube or boat purchase are also more than welcome to book a guided trip. Our intentions are not to wine and dine you, but to help you understand where fish are feeding, what flies to use and the different methods used to fish them but most importantly; to show you a good time.

Fly-fishing our local trout lakes can offer up huge trout and anglers booking a trip can expect good insect activity all day, usually resulting in a great time on the water. Our local lakes are some of the most fertile lakes in Canada. The muddy bottoms of our lakes make superb habitat for most stillwater aquatic life like chironomids, scuds and leeches.

Currently, we offer trips to several local trout lakes with most of our guided trips only 30 minutes from Edmonton. We also offer several other fly-fishing opportunities not listed on our Rates & Services page including:

Stillwater fly-fishing for northern pike
Over night and/or full day trips to some of Alberta's most productive stillwater fisheries.
Day and over night trips to the blue ribbon Little Smokey River for arctic graying.

If you are interested in any of these other opportunities, please let us know.

Our History

AlbertaStillwaters.Com is a unique venture for Mike Monteith. Mike had owned Santannas Night Club for over 15 years but his true passion has always been fly-fishing. In 2002, Mike started up his stillwater guiding business as a small p/t seasonal venture and today stays busy teaching clients of all ages the secrets to stillwater fly-fishing.

Mike (A.K.A. Doc) spent some time as the manager of the north side Fishin' Hole in Edmonton and is well known throughout Alberta and western Canada for his informative web site "Fly Fishing Edmonton" as well as being the owner of one of Alberta's most visited information sites, the "Alberta Fly Fishing Forum". Mike also received his graduation certificate as an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) in the summer of 2007. He's been successfully fishing Edmonton's pothole lakes for 33 years and will continue to fish them for many years to come. AlbertaStillwaters.Com respects and understands that you may want to keep a few fish according to your rights under the Alberta Fishing Regulations possession limits but in the same breath, we would like to teach anglers the importance of catch & release fishing through practice.

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Testimonials

"Doc, I had a great time at the clinic. You were very friendly and knowledgeable and made learning very easy. I highly recommend Doc's clinic to anyone interested in flyfishing!"

Brent

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"Mike: Thank you for a great course. I learned a lot. You are an excellent teacher and the clinic covered everything I needed to know. I especially appreciated the fact that ..."

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