Fishing Tips, Tricks & Tech Talk

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...

So here we go, this is the first post in a series of blogs devoted to fly-casting techniques. I plan to start with good old fashioned single-handed fly-casting and then move on towards spey-casting and double-handed rods in later posts. However almost all of the casting pointers discussed will be...

Hello, my name is Trevor Shpeley and I'm standing before you today because I am a crappy caster. Yes I admit it, I am powerless over my crappy casting and my line has become unmanageable. I didn't always know I was a crappy caster. I started out as a budding young fly-fisherman...

We really couldn’t ask for better ice fishing weather in northern BC. We had a few very cold weeks at...

Between the 1950s and the late 1970s herring strip was the principle natural bait used by BC salmon anglers who preferred to troll rather than cut plug or mooch with herring. Trollers also used herring from four to seven inches in length. However, strip sales far exceeded sales of these...