Fishing The Off Season
“The season is ended. There was not enough of it; there never is.” – Nick Lyons DRAWING THE LINE It’s hard to say what exactly constitutes the “off” season in a province with very few seasonal closures and a long…
The Modest Sportsman
The 10 Best Flies for BC Trout Fishing
“If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.” – John Gierach There are thousands of fly patterns in existence—too many to know. Walking into a fly shop, you might…
How to Bead Fish for Fall Trout
“There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.” – Roderick Haig-Brown November—it’s the time when many people start “winding down”…
The Ascension of an Angler
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.” — Tom Brokaw Like most hobbies, fishing, and particularly fly fishing, can be tainted by a certain degree of “snobbery”. Use these ten archetypes as a gauge of where you…
How to Catch Salmon in B.C. Rivers
“A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart.” - Roderick Haig-Brown
10 Truck Essentials for Sportsmen
“Having a four wheel drive doesn’t mean you can go anywhere. It just means you can get stuck in worse places.” – John Gierach I’m not a prepper by any measure. Sure, I tend to think ahead and have what…
Minimalism and Fly Fishing
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of Mankind” – H.D. Thoreau STARTING OUT The first “fly rod” I ever had was a 12 inches…
Fishing a Hypothesis
“Fishing has been styled ‘a contemplative man’s recreation,’ … and science is only a more contemplative man’s recreation.” – H.D. Thoreau Going fishing somewhere new is a lot like conducting a science experiment. First, you start with a hypothesis—a big…