Fishing Reports
New Salmon Retention Quotas for Local Rivers
Here are a couple of e-links to new DFO Fisheries Notices regarding openings for retention of Chinook and Coho salmon on the Puntledge, Campbell and Big Qualicum rivers. Puntledge River...
World Rivers Day
Held annually on the last Sunday of September, World Rivers Day is fast approaching. For one day per year, international attention is focused on the planet’s life-blood of freshwater streams. For many of us fly-fishers, fishing rivers and streams is our passion. We...
On the Big Q. 04 09 2019
The beaches around Qualicum Bay have been all but vacated by Pink salmon for quite some time now. So, on a whim, an exploratory journey into the Big Qualicum river was undertaken. Lo and behold, there they were, the disappeared pinks. Just like two years ago, when the...
Tangled Lines
Anatomy of a Wizard
The intricacies of a Wizard suddenly came into focus and were revealed while peering through a magnifying glass. I was visually dissecting the components of this remarkable fly pattern when Art Limber, the mastermind of this fishy concoction put it this way, “The...
SEINING THE OYSTER
The call went out ~ ORES would be looking for broodstock in the week of September 8: Tuesday, 10 Sep, the targets were pink salmon in Frank’s Pool. Because of the recent Rexpo at CFB Comox, a number of military personnel attended; it turned out we had six divers! ...
World Rivers Day
Held annually on the last Sunday of September, World Rivers Day is fast approaching. For one day per year, international attention is focused on the planet’s life-blood of freshwater streams. For many of us fly-fishers, fishing rivers and streams is our passion. We...