Phil Rowley's Blog
At the age of six Phil Rowley was introduced to coarse fishing in England and has been hooked ever since. For the past 20 years Phil Rowley has been fly-fishing stillwaters almost exclusively. His love of stillwater fly-fishing has taken him all over British Columbia and Washington in the pursuit of trout and char. A former commercial fly-tier Phil has written for almost every major fly-fishing publication in North America. His contributions also include books and numerous feature articles on fly-fishing stillwaters and stillwater fly patterns. Phil’s book Fly Patterns For Stillwaters has become a best seller. Recently Phil in conjunction with True North Entertainment released a DVD, Tying Fly Patterns for Stillwaters. This DVD features patterns from Phil’s book along with some new creations.

When he is not tying flies or on the water Phil travels western North America performing at outdoor shows, teaching a variety of seminars, speaking to fly clubs and conducting weekend fly-fishing schools. In addition to Phil’s shows and seminars he has had the good fortune to appear on such T.V. shows as Sport Fishing B.C., The New Fly Fisher and Fishing with Shelly and Courtney. Phil’s website, www.flycraftangling.com is dedicated to fly-fishing and fly-tying education. Featuring tips, techniques and streaming video this comprehensive site is constantly changing to meet the needs of its members.

Phil is a member of the Sage Professional family and has a number of other professional associations with a number of companies including 3M Scientific Anglers, SuperFly, Islander Reels, Mustad, HMH, Dr. Slick, Gudebrod, Scotty Products and Action Optics. Phil is also a proud member of the Outcast Boats and Bare pro staff teams. In early 2004 Phil along with good friend Brian Chan released a signature line of fly tying materials christened Stillwater Solutions in partnership with Super Fly. For the past 13 years Phil has been an active member of the Osprey Fly Fishers of B.C. and is a former director of the British Columbia Federation of Fly Fishers.

When he is not focused upon fly-fishing Phil spends time will his wife Patsy and their two active sons, Brandon and Sean. The entire family enjoys the outdoors and fly-fishing in particular. It is common for Phil's travels to include his family on his speaking engagements and fishing trips.

Jenna McRae's Blog
Jenna developed her passion for sport fishing at a young age while spending a lot of her time at her family cabin located in the Thompson Nicola region in British Columbia. It all began with a belly boat and hike in lakes and progressed to fishing exotic destinations around the world including Thailand, Hawaii and, recently, Ascension Bay, Mexico where she enjoyed stalking weary bonefish and aggressive barracuda.
 
While Jenna’s Main expertise lies with fly fishing, she also has experience in drift fishing, spin casting and sturgeon fishing. Fly Fishing continues to be a very rewarding and strong passion of Jenna’s and her desire is to help encourage other women into exploring the wonderful and rewarding sport of fishing!

Mike Mitchell's Blog
As editor of the oldest Hunting and fishing magazine in Western Canada I try to get out and either fish or hunt as much as I can.

With a young family outing have become less frequent but the ones we do get out on are even more rewarding as the whole family gets to experience the outdoors. I have been married to my wife Rachel since 2001 and have two, soon to be three great kids Marleigh (3), Caleb (7) and baby.

My fishing partner Caleb is just as enthusiastic if not more than I am when it comes to getting out on the water. Some of our favorite places to wet a line are the Fraser River for sturgeon and the central coast of BC for salmon.

I look forward to continuing to contribute to the rich history of BC Outdoors magazine for years to come.

Trevor Welton's Blog
Trevor Welton is a Registered Professional Biologist who has been actively angling throughout BC, Alaska, Yukon, and international waters for over 18 years. Trevor is known as a highly skilled fly fisher with a strong background in gear fishing techniques. Drift fishing for steelhead is definitely a winter favorite!  During his many years angling, Trevor has worked in the BC fishing tackle industry off and on and recently taught a series of successful chironomid fly-fishing courses at a local fishing tackle shop. Trevor is also a director for the Steelhead Society of British Columbia. Trevor is also part of the BC Outdoors Magazine Pro Staff Team.

Trevor competed with Team Mustang in the 3rd annual Canadian Flyfishing Championship in Campbell River and won a bronze metal for individual score and contributed to team gold.  Trevor also competed in the 26th World Flyfishing Championship in Portugal in 2006 as part of Team Canada.

Brian Chan's Blog
Brian Chan has been an avid stillwater fly-fisher and fly-tier for over 35 years. Brian worked as a fisheries biologist for over 30 years where he managed small lake recreational fisheries for the province of BC. Brian is also a fly- fishing author, video producer, lecturer and angling guide. Some of his more recent works include the books Morris and Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes, Stillwater Solutions Recipes – 30 Proven Patterns by Brian Chan and Phil Rowley, and the DVD’s Expert Techniques for Stillwater Fly Fishing and Tying & Fishing Stillwater Flies with Brian Chan. Brian makes regular appearances on TV fishing shows as a co-host of The New Fly Fisher and as a featured guest on Sport Fishing on the Fly. He is also a regular contributor to magazine publications including BC Outdoors.

I Brian’s favourite fishing haunts are the many trout lakes surrounding his home city of Kamloops but he often can be found wading rivers in other provinces and states as well as making forays to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon for big lake trout and pike.

Brian has a number of professional fly-fishing industry affiliations including Sage, Rio, Mustad, Superfly and Outcast Sporting Gear.