fishingbuddha

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.