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...

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...

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...

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...

For some of us, it is a sort of in-between time. That is, Springtime freshwater trout fishing, with its high expectations of great catches, has waned. The dreaded summer doldrums, with their high-water temperatures and low flows are creeping in. And with that,...