As spring approaches many anglers, myself included, start thinking about Stoneflies. Will this be the year that I finally hit the famous Salmonfly hatch on the Crowsnest River? Will early morning drift boat trips on the Bow produce magical Golden Stone fishing like it did a few years back? Should I make the journey to the Big Hole in Montana in hopes that this time my timing will be right? Fly fishing using stonefly imitations, both nymphs and dries, can be....
The great Mike Tyson coined the famous phrase about getting into the ring with him. “Everyone has a plan,” the former heavyweight boxing champ of the world once said. “Until they get hit.” And when you take a right from Iron Mike you know you’ve been hit. Prize-fighting appears at first sight to be a long way from angling. Especially when it comes to executing “The Plan.”
The sheer size and pound for pound strength of wild run steelhead are next to no other fish caught in freshwater. Yet even more fascinating is the mystery behind their saltwater migration. Little is known about where these steelhead go, and why. But to catch them in flowing waters as they return to their natal streams is truly something special. Over the last decade, the Skeena River has experienced a...
It's late in the season and my family and I are at our favourite trout pond, looking to squeeze out one more day of open water fishing before the water turns solid. The weather is cooperating and I would even go so far as to say that it is pleasant. It is a good day for fishing. Gone though, are the days of...
I had the opportunity this summer to cross another river off my fly fishing bucket list, the famous Green River below the Flaming Gorge reservoir near Dutch John Utah. The Flaming Gorge dam, located in the northeast corner of Utah, within casting distance of both Wyoming and Colorado, was built in the early 1960’s, creates a reservoir that ...
There is mystique about the night. The silence. I cannot help to wonder what monsters stir, not to be seen in the light of day. Brown trout being nocturnal, it only makes sense. But to the advantage of all trout, night is when aerial predators are held mostly at bay.
It's a perfect summer day. There's a light breeze, its overcast with some sunny breaks, and the temperature is comfortable. I have lots of choices available to me. There is great river fishing, good trout fishing, good pike fishing, and good walleye fishing. I decide I'm going walleye fishing.
One of the nicest things for anglers is the arrival of warm summer days and the opportunity to wade wet. Being unencumbered by the waders that make life on the stream bearable for the other 3 seasons.
Spring weather lifts the burden of old man winter off southern Alberta and coaxes fly fishers from their vices onto open rivers. As some of the only open water around, early migrants bring the river to life. Franklin’s gulls break the silence of winter, ducks are flashing their breeding plumage, and soon swallows will fill the sky in a frenzy. Itching to just get back on the river, expectations are tempered with shaking the dust off your cast and soaking some rays in mind. Low water temperatures hold fish from being active early, but quality trout still show themselves.
