New Hook Size Regulation
It pays to stay up to date with changes to fishing regulations. The latest amendment to Fisheries & Oceans Canada tidal waters angling regulations includes a couple of substantial new rules regarding fishhooks. See extracted graphic inserted below. The complete...
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...
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,...
What’s Really Going on Down There?
Fly fishers are curious creatures. We probe the depths with a semblance of something we surmise a fish might want to bite. Quite often we do not know if fish are even present down there. Regardless, still we persevere. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. But some folks...