The Winter run Steelhead are throughout the entire river now and we have been running trips on both the upper, middle and lower sections. This was a good day with all boats hooking at least 4 fish per boat, while today was less productive with one boat with a strike out and the other hooking two.
The new Mac Fish by Gibbs-Delta is the perfect lure for those of you who like to jig for salmon or bottom fish. Just like the rest of the Gibbs-Delta product line, they are made by anglers for anglers. The Mac Fish is available in one colour (army truck) and...
This brand new reel has been generating quite a buzz since its first appearance earlier this year. Manufactured from cold-rolled 6061-T650 aluminum that has been saltwater anodized, this is a very good-looking reel that looks to be bullet proof. A rugged drag knob and large handles make operation easier on...
I’m going to take a quick break from the casting blogs for a minute here and remind everyone that it's a Pink year!
What is a pink year? Here, along the British Columbia coast, primarily our local waters surrounding Vancouver we see a major pink salmon return every two years falling...
It's easy to think sometimes that "no one ever gets caught", but they do. Often, it's frustrating to see others breaking the rules and regulations and having the sense that nothing ever comes of it for them. The following link shows the opposite, a Wall of Shame if you will...
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Controlling Unwanted Transplants: Zebra Mussels
North America’s industrial, agricultural and municipal water supplies, freshwater shipping, fishing, and shellfish harvesting are under a multimillion-dollar threat from the zebra mussel, first found in the Great Lakes in 1988.
The spread of zebra mussels to other waterways can be prevented by boaters who flush their...
Jack Jenkins swigged the last of his coffee, put down his outdoor magazine (I won’t say which one) and patted...
By Phil Rowley
When I first learned to fly fish, as with other fly fishers, I dreamt of one day casting to rising trout while standing knee deep in one of North America’s blue ribbon trout streams. Rivers such as the Madison, Henry’s Fork, Missouri and the Green filled my imagination.
Dr. John Matsen, of the Squamish Streamkeepers, has been instrumental in this initiative to bring back the herring.
Herring were spawning on the creosote-coated pilings in the Squamish Estuary, but the eggs were dying. Creosote is toxic to the herring eggs.
The group has discovered, by much experimentation that wrapping the pilings...