fishingbuddha

Some recent photos of some beauty trout caught by buddies. nice fish boys!

Well after two years of cancelled derbies the Badger Lake Classic was back on and to celebrate getting back into the swing of things we headed back to the badger lake area, staying at Knouff lake resort. This years derby was unlike any other as there were four lakes that fly fisher people could fish.

Grateful to have all the buddies come together to fly fish, banter and connect. Cheers to more fishing days and looking forward to the next derby….ok that’s a lie…looking forward to my 9 day summer river fly fishing trip coming up in a couple of months. Stay tuned.

As it goes….decided to take a weekend off to look for a new house and to have mothers day brunch and of course somehow the boys were able to get away and had an great weekend! Well done crew.

Beauty trout!

Digging my roof top boat set up with outboard motor mount/

Hopefully adding the 5 extra hp won’t wreck my gas mileage!

Managed to getaway with Bcflytieguy Mark to the Merritt region. Fishing started out amazing but slowed down as the day went on. Lots of fish caught but mostly by mark who managed to land about 20 including five good sized rainbows and one Kokanee. As for me, I landed half as much but all were small fish. This was my first time fishing this lake but will be back. Always fun to try new lakes. Marks maroon and black micro jig headed leech seemed to be the best fly but fish were caught on a variety of micro leeches as well as the good old pheasant tail nymph.

Happy to have been able to make this my 6 day out and it is only the beginning of May. Can’t wait until my four day cariboo trip and annual derby which will take place at the end of May!