Every year I fish my favourite flies which include pheasant tails, micro jig leeches and gun metal chironomids. Originally when I started the green wooly bigger with a gold bead was my go to.
I have to admit boobies and blobs have done well for me this year but the fly of the year has to go to the green pumpkin head leech in two versions.
This year this fly has produced some big numbers for rainbows, bulls, brooks, chum and even a coho.
Over the winter I will be tying more of these bad boys and look forward to trying more often I. The new year.
You can’t beat fall fishing for multiple species on your home waters.
This weekend I got to fish with Mats in his Wooldridge Jet boat. We started off catch and releasing chum on the Stave where I also hooked into a silver coho on the old faithful rabbit strip red conehead. The same fly i was successful with for rainbows on Roche and Brooks and Bulls on a local lake.
The afternoon was spent fishing for sturgeon. Although the sturgeon fishing was a bit slow, Mats was able to land one decent one followed by mine which was landed right before we packed up. Something I have learned about sturgeon fishing is that you can never give up as I can’t tell you how many times I have landed a sturgeon in the last ten minutes of the day.
Although nothing beats hooking into a nice fish on the fly (or a big sturgeon on the Fraser) the real love of fishing comes from enjoying the outdoors and hanging out with good people. In this ever increasing busy and stressful life we all live I owe fly fishing a big thank you for keeping me grounded.
Wishing the Thompson was open for some winter steelhead fishing but winter is a good time to get pumped up about future trips and take some time to replenish those fly boxes.
In the meantime hoping to get out again before the winter comes.
Although I find spring fishing more productive overall my favourite time of the year is fishing in fall. Can’t beat the scenery and every once in a while the stars align and you can get some pretty spectacular BC Fishing weather.
This last year was one of those spectacular days. Although the trip up was pouring rain, by the time the sun came up the rain had stopped and the wind died down and we experienced one of those amazing gift of a day.
This trip involved taking a cousin of mine who has come on several trips only to be cursed with a skunked day. On this particular day it only took ten minutes to lay into two large bows. In fact two of the largest I have seen that have come out of this lake. In the end. We completed the day with 25 bows and one brook.
Love it when the stars align with good weather good fishing and good company. Some good beer also helps!
Fly of choice this trip was a pumpkin head leech and a rabbit strip leech in green with a flashy body and red and gold cone heads.
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