Story by Les Brazier This beautiful freestone river has its humble beginnings as a pristine mountain stream near Mt. Skia in Gladstone Provincial Park in Southeastern British Columbia. The Granby flows south, between the rugged and thickly timbered Midway and Christina mountain ranges, for some 100 kilometres before reaching the City of Grand Forks, where it joins the Kettle River, before crossing the United States border. This area, often referred to as the Boundary Country, is overlooked by many fly fishermen who are drawn by the more famous Kamloops trout fishing, to the West, and the cutthroat in the streams of the Rocky Mountains, to East. In past years the river has been used to transport logs for the local saw mills in Grand Forks and woody debris remains clumped in some areas, offering refuge for the stream residents. The stream cobble makeup is interrupted occasionally by extruded bedrock control pools. The river teams with aquatic life, which provides a rich food source for the native Rainbow trout, Rocky Mountain Whitefish as well as various cyprinids (fishes of the carp family) and an occasional Eastern Brook trout. The watershed has been influenced by a myriad of stocking of lakes by the fisheries branch over the years, but the trout are wild and beautiful. The Granby (which is exempt to the spring closure as of this writing‚ but check regulations) offers a unique year round fishery. Typically, the rivers in Boundary Country start to warm up early and they are fishable from May through November. The timing of the spring freshet varies from year to year, but it usually happens around June 1st, blowing out the fishing until water levels drop. Primary access to the river is obtained by using either of the two roads...