Fishing Tips, Tricks & Tech Talk

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...

Burbot, ling, eel pout or mud shark are just a few of the seven or so different monikers this sometime maligned and disrespected fish gets called. I, unlike a lot of folks, don’t think of them as ugly at all, but rather as yummy, battered pieces of fish candy in my deep fryer. Incidentally, the burbot is the only fresh water representative of the cod fish family in North America and it has succulent, mild tasting, white flaky, firm flesh.

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...

I was fortunate to be introduced to fly fishing and fly casting at a very young age, somewhere around 1978...

Fly fishing for westslope cutthroat trout in the East Kootenays of British Columbia should be on every angler’s bucket list....

Background Bait holders have been part of the salmon trolling scene in BC for six decades. Since 1954 when the...

By Garry Elgear Originally published in the Tips and Tech column of the 2014 January/February issue of BC Outdoors magazine. With fall over it’s time for the silver ghosts make their way home. These sensuous fish are each different, like a fingerprint, from the spots on their backside to the rosy hue...

Leader setups for fly-fishing streams can be confusing to new fly anglers. Avoid any confusion and take a simplified approach...