Fishing Reports
As a Tribute to Roderick Haig-Brown
It has been 50 years since the untimely passing of Roderick Haig-Brown, in 1976. In 1998, Canada Post issued a collection of fly-fishing theme-based postage stamps. Two of those stamps exemplified fly patterns originated by Roderick Haig-Brown; his Steelhead Bee and...
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...
Tangled Lines
As a Tribute to Roderick Haig-Brown
It has been 50 years since the untimely passing of Roderick Haig-Brown, in 1976. In 1998, Canada Post issued a collection of fly-fishing theme-based postage stamps. Two of those stamps exemplified fly patterns originated by Roderick Haig-Brown; his Steelhead Bee and...
PP II Challenge #20
Hook – Mustad 9671. Size 10 through 14. Debarbed and sharpened. Thread – Black, 6/0 Uni Thread. Snoot – Red Fox squirrel or Eastern Grey squirrel tail hair, tips forward. Body – Hair from snoot, bound down along hook shank. Tail – Butt ends of body hair. Palmer Hackle...
The Answer Is….
The correct/acceptable answer for challenge #19 is: the Intruder. Three amigos, Jerry French, Scott Howell and Ed Ward collaborated to invent this fly pattern in the early 1990s. Ed Ward said, “I started tying these flies because I could not buy what I wanted.” That...