As this looked the last day of good weather for at least a week or more, Roy and I decided to get out to Spider for our first trip of 2025. We were very optimistic, having heard from Sylvain that the fishing had been pretty hot the week prior. I arrived around 8 AM to...

The photo above shows a normal wintertime water level at the log pile pool on the Little Qualicum River. A short video clip of that same pool, embedded herein, shows today’s high-water event. Turbid and turgid would be my description.   [video width="1280"...

Today, it was a few hours well spent prospecting for sea-runs from Fanny Bay down Island to Nile Creek. What was missing?... herring skiffs. Only a scant couple of years ago, along these same beaches, several herring skiffs were netting so close to shore that a long...

A wise, old member of our club once told us to make a list of gear required for different types of fishing trips. Good advice I thought, so I did so. The one thing about a list, however, is that it only works if you use it. So, much to my chagrin, when I arrived at...

In years past, the beginning of March was a good time to fish the lower end of the Englishman River. Fresh winter-run steelhead and sea-run Cutt’s could often be found there. With that thought in mind, the spirit moved me to carry out a reconnaissance of that area...

With apologies to Will’s Hal5, “Once more into the river, dear Friend”, TheCourtJester drove TheDagger to the Argonaut bridge; after a morning’s fishing, they had lunch at the hatchery tables and then fished the areas below the hatchery. Only one other fisher was...

“Look, Bambi, the water’s stiff.” said Thumper as he slid across the frozen pond on his butt and thumped his hind foot three times on the ice for emphasis. Such was today at the beach; or at least it was at my chosen fishing venue. Not that any Disneyesque characters...

Probably, most folks who chase winter-run steelhead will agree; there is something about the juxtaposition of brightly coloured steelhead flies set against a background of fresh snow that sends a fly fisher’s heart racing. Today was such a day. First of the year snow...

Taking advantage of the nice weather Don Jarmen and I took a drive into the Oyster River with the intent of checking Wowo Lake as Don had never been there. The weather was more like May than January with a high of 8deg. Although the lake was iced over in some areas...