Fishing Reports
Misadventure on Wolf
Still learning the area, and have been wanting to get out for a bit, so the the nice weather today motivated me to take myself and my son (Lucas) to Wolf for a bit of an explore and fish on our kayaks. There was a good bit of bug activity on the surface, so we had...
New Steelhead Lie Discovered…. Perhaps.
Way back in January 2023, my stream report on this site, see Boulder Dumping , featured an ill-conceived, outside of instream work season, unlawful dumping of large boulder riprap and a stream-deflecting rock groin on the Little Qualicum River. Starting that day and...
Fishing the Quinsam Main
THE QUINSAM RIVER This small river begins with a series of lakes and snakes it way through mostly forest until it meets the Campbell, away from the town. It contains mainly small trout, but larger fish are few and far between. If you like fishing an intimate stream...
Tangled Lines
The Answer Is….
The correct/acceptable answer for challenge #18 is: the Booby. A somewhat comical name for a comical looking fly. But it does catch fish. Thrown out on a sinking line, then let sit static on the bottom, those buoyant foam spheres cause this fly to rise up and hover in...
The Gold of Old
Pairs of us intermittently shuffled in through big wooden, spring-hinged double-doors. Out of the snow and into a warm, inviting, dimly lit beerhall on this Saturday in mid-February. Those doors banged shut behind us. Two by two we entered, like the animals we were,...
PP II Challenge #18
Hook - Mustad C49s. Size 6 or 8. Debarbed. Thread – 6/0 Uni Thread to complement overall colour scheme. Tail – Pearlescent Crystal flash™. Body – Crystal chenille™, various colour combinations, usually two-toned. Eyes – Closed cell foam dowel fashioned into two round...