Fishing Reports
The Osprey’s Pool
Just returned from my annual late summer/early autumn fishing sojourn up into the high hills. It’s that time between Pink salmon mania and silver-sided Coho anticipation; time to rinse off those salty barnacles in some icy mountain meltwater. This used to be known as...
The Bite Was On….
A quick stop into the Big Q. hatchery confirmed it, no great wads of Pink salmon had rushed into the river. That meant, there would still be hordes of pinks still holding off the beach. Seeing that, my destination was straight to Henson Road beach access. Henson Road...
Pink Euphasid Fly
Sorry, I neglected to include a picture of the fly for those club members who may not be familiar.
Tangled Lines
Writing on Water
Having read the book a couple of times, it was then passed on to a lucky recipient as an item at one of our CVFF club annual fundraising auctions. The title of that book was, as best remembered, Writing on Water. Over the years since, odd-ball passages or technical...
The RH-B50 Fly Tying Challenge – Has Concluded and Congratulations, Michael Nihls
Slightly more than one year ago, the CVF membership participated in the Patent Patterns challenge series. This event involved identifying a specific collection of fishing flies, and reached its conclusion with the presentation of the entire set to the participant who...
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,...