Fishing Reports
A Perfect Miniature Steelhead…
I grabbed a pair of adjustable handle loppers and headed to the Little Q. today. A few troublesome tree branches would receive a judicious trimming. This is considered a “user-maintained site”, meaning, if the initiative is not taken by an individual then nothing will...
ELK FISHING – 7JUNE 2025
TheCourtJester drove his daughter, TheRedPrincess, to the Elk, at the Log Sort; no other vehicles were parked, so they fished there. At lunchtime, they motored back to Cervus. There were many vehicles there, both fishers and hikers. Conditions were OK...
ELK FISHING – 6 JUNE 2025
TheDagger drove TheCourtJester to the Elk, at the Log Sort, but there was already one vehicle parked. With no way to establish quickly if there was room for them to fish (while a nice run to fish, it is fairly restricted in length ), they motored back to...
Tangled Lines
Really… How Big Was It?
When an outsized fish is caught then released, ever wonder how large that fish really was? Smaller than the big one that got away, I bet. For quite some time society has assumed it’s a fisher’s prerogative to fib a little, at least to themselves, when estimating size,...
Low Tide Reccy 26 05 ’25
If you go down to the woods beach today, you're sure of a big surprise…. That is what my low tide wanderings always seem to bring me. Even if one doesn’t plan on fishing at low tide, a stroll along the beach during low slack may reveal some much-forgotten substrate...
Steelhead Report
A queer run of little steelheads is how Roderick Haig-Brown described them. So too my friend, a Campbell River brat now in his seventies. He always celebrated his birthday, which is on May 22nd., by fly-fishing for these silver-bright steelhead. Historically they came...