fishingbuddha

After canoeing headed back to fish for pinks and coho from the shores of Campbell River but the wind and tides did not work out in our favour. So decided to make our way to hornby Island and check out Tribune bay.

Amazing place

Some people paddle around Quadra to Octopus island or Rebeca spit but we chose to paddle a lake on Quadra.

Absolute five stars for this trip. Only thing that would make it a five plus is catching some cutties. FYI we did hook into a small one.

One of the highlights of this trip was canoeing to a hiking spot and hiking to the ocean. Hence the reason there are ocean shots.

Well just left the mainland and exploring Vancouver Island/

Day one camped out at my first Hipcamp: This was amazing minus the noisy campers beside us.

Went for a walk to the beach and found out guys were catching salmon. This is when I am happy that I brought the eight weight and 5 wgt rods as well as salmon and stillwater flies:

Started tossing my homemade pink flies and within two hours landed ten pinks and lost a few more:

Brought a spin cast for a friend but no luck with lures:

Love it when impromptu shit like this happens!

Love BC and the variety of fly fishing opportunities one can do at any given time.

Now heading off the grid for a canoe paddle and hopefully tap into some cutthroats! Stay tuned!

Nothing beats flyfishing except for sharing that experience with good friends.

8 days of fishing – five still water and 3 river days.

Day one go Stillwater. Wasn’t a gangbuster day but caught some nice fish.

Took my partners cousins from Spain out sturgeon fishing. They have never caught a fish before…..this was their first! 45 minute fight.

Well this weekend I spent a couple of days at one of my favourite spots. Although the water level was too low we still managed to hook into some fish.

Regardless of the low water, the view and weather was outstanding.

The weather and my schedule finally allowed me to go fishing for the weekend with my son and his friend. On this trip we got into a ton of fish on chironomids and a maroon UV leech pattern. Although fish were not big they were plentiful and fought hard.

Happy Canada Day!

Took a break from the still water scene and went sturgeon fishing. Ended up getting my partner into two decent sturgeon. A four footer and a six footer.

Well today we tried something different from the usual routine. Instead of heading up to the Kamloops or Cariboo Region we headed south to Washington State in search of Brown Trout.

Although the morning was slow, later in the afternoon Cassidy noticed a tree that was dropping caterpillars on to the lakes surface. Noticing this he switched to a dry fly. Instantly he was into a couple of fish landing a nice Brown and a nice rainbow.

After trolling across the lake in search of fish, I finally join Cassidy. I put on a dry and in no time I entice a fish but miss it. a second fish hooks up but it comes loose in some weeds. Keep in mind the water we are fishing is 6 inches to one foot deep.

Because the tree dropping caterpillars was right beside the boat launch fishing was turned off so we moved and fished the adjacent shoreline.

Shortly afterwards I notice some trout feeding aggressively on the surface so toss the dry over to the fish. Missed one bite but then managed to hook into the second bite and landed a nice spotted bow.

Although we didn’t”t land a lot of fish it was sure cool tossing dries in still water for trout which were feeding on caterpillars falling from a tree in 6 inches of water.

This was a first for me and a good reminder to always have some dries on hand. Although we only landed a few it was very cool to land some Stillwater fish on dries and also catch a Brown trout.

The day ended having oysters and shrimp at a Roadside Shrimp joint.

Good times.