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Three Kinds of Garbage in Our Water

Blake Johnston·July 5, 2013

There are three kinds of garbage in our water. The kind that floats: The stuff you can see. Plastic containers: 1. Can be reused as water bottles. 2. Water filled bumpersStyrofoam: 1. Avoid buying it in any form when possible. 2. Styrofoam in some parts of the world is being recycled for...

Cutthroat Fishing: Searching Out the Pack

Garry Elgear·March 23, 2014

by Garry Elgear Originally published in “Tips and Tech” March/April 2011 issue of BC Outdoors magazine. Kicking back in my boat waiting for my guests to arrive I pull out my binoculars and start scanning the water for activity. Two hundred yards in the distance I see the surface erupt in the...

The East Wind Blows

Raeanne O’Meara·September 10, 2021

Flexibility is the key to any outdoor activities taking place during the shoulder seasons; weather becomes unpredictable, which necessitates last-minute...

Illustration by Keith Milne and Gord Coulthart.

The Disruptors

Dave Steele·October 4, 2021

Long before the disruptors (a.k.a. humanoids) made an appearance in this world, valley-dwelling carnivores and omnivores relied on Mother Nature...

Stillwater Fly Fishing App is Now Live

Camille Atebe·February 12, 2018

Have you ever wanted to spend a day on the water with Phil Rowley and Brian Chan? Here’s your chance...

Curing Roe

Garry Elgear·September 6, 2013

I’ve run my shop for over 10 years and have been here since I was fifteen. My physical reflection is now of a man with hair the color of salt and pepper; some call it distinction; some call it the sign of wisdom. I don’t know about either of those...

Salmon Steak with Chantrelles

BC Outdoors Magazine Team·January 8, 2014

Big water fishing and wild food foraging are two of my favourite sports and pairing up the fish of my dreams with a top woodland pick such as in this recipe produces a gourmet feast that money can't buy! I like to use salmon steaks for this particular recipe because they...

Ucluelet Early Season Fishing Report

Marilyn Murphy·May 5, 2015

Early season spring fishing produces some quality Chinook Salmon in the 10-25 pound range. So far the best Salmon fishing has been close to Ucluelet so not a big run to the fishing grounds. Fishing the outside edge of Barkley Sound, Great Bear and out as far as three miles offshore. The fish are hunkering right on the bottom, so the gear varies between 110-150 feet deep depending on bottom depth. Using Spoons with Flashers or Anchovies with Flashers. Fish are biting on the tides but morning has been by far best.

Do Unto Others

Garry Elgear·September 5, 2013

Roderick Haig-Brown, one of the most praised and respected fly-anglers, not only as an active angler in his time but as a legend in ours, had a very solid belief as to how an angler should carry himself and he led unwaveringly by that example. As a self-proclaimed disciple of...