Fishing Reports
Fog, Fish and Flyfishers
Marion and I just returned from camping at Cluxewe for the weekend. The coho are now heading up the river so fishing should be good for the next little while. The trick is to stumble into the fresh ones instead of the ones that have been in and out of the river...
The View from Bob Weir’s Bench 14 09 26
For fly fishers’, it’s that between time off the beach; that period between the best of Pink salmon and the vanguard of Coho. Today was typical of that between time. Pretty decent weather; cloudy with sunny breaks, air temp 18°C., a steady easterly breeze pegged at...
Conuma River
Thursday, in the early morning rain, Bret, Ringer, the Hammer and I headed out for the Conuma. Our timing was pretty good as the heavy rains the day before and overnight raised the river enough to send a ton of fish upriver. Unfortunately the lower water level had...
Tangled Lines
Fly Tying Ditties
Every once in a while, a tune catches your ear and you think, what a great little ditty. Such happened recently and needed sharing. So here you go, a couple of Celtic melodies to set your toes a tappin’. These e-links were cribbed from the Davie McPhail playlist. In...
Big Changes on the Little Q.
A short, illustrated account of remedial stream work being undertaken on the Little Qualicum River unfolds below. Starting back in 2009, I have been shooting repetitive photos from certain vantage points on the Little Q., as my way of documenting changes to the river...
An Osprey Spawns a Theory
We fly fishers seem to come up with more fish related theories than perhaps any other group of anglers. Such occurred to me just yesterday. My recent experience with an Osprey eagle circling overhead, while I stood knee deep in a river casting my fly line, (see The...