Fishing Reports
RH-B50 Winners Announced
The Roderick Haig-Brown flies RH-B50 Fly Tying Challenge has successfully concluded. Over one hundred and fifty expressions of interest were received from potential participants. Many of those followed up by submitting their flies for judging. To recap: In 1998,...
Looking for Little Q. Pinks….
You know sumpin’ is up when a portable crapper arrives on site; you know then, someone is in it for the long haul. Such greeted me today while checking out the Little Qualicum River at the end of Waters Road. This was an exploratory trip only, just to see if any Pink...
The View from Bob Weir’s Bench 19/07/26
It all started with a snippet of a suggestion of a rumour that possibly someone, somewhere, had caught some Pink salmon. The source of that allegation was a guy with his finger on the pulse of coastal salmon fishing, a magazine publisher and an inveterate optimist,...
Tangled Lines
RH-B50 Winners Announced
The Roderick Haig-Brown flies RH-B50 Fly Tying Challenge has successfully concluded. Over one hundred and fifty expressions of interest were received from potential participants. Many of those followed up by submitting their flies for judging. To recap: In 1998,...
What’s Really Going on Down There?
Fly fishers are curious creatures. We probe the depths with a semblance of something we surmise a fish might want to bite. Quite often we do not know if fish are even present down there. Regardless, still we persevere. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. But some folks...