Rory’s Page 30 Archive
Spider Lake – 2025-03-06
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...
Turbid and Turgid
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"...
Baynes Sound Prospecting 06 03 ’25
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...
2025 Horne lake Fishout
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...
Answer to FINAL Challenge #16
The correct answer to this final challenge is, the Steelhead Bee. In his book, Fisherman’s Fall, (1964), Roderick Haig-Brown writes, “Most of my fish have been taken on a No.8 hook with a dressing I now call the Steelhead Bee…. There is nothing sacred or mystic about...
Englishman River Reccy…
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...
OYSTER RIVER FIN CLIPPING
This is the info I mentioned earlier; please consider giving ORES a helping hand. If you do and reply to this appeal, please answer the questions, by email to: ores123@gmail.com Hope to see you there, Nigel ORES Coho Clipping: March 11-12 (Tuesday-Wednesday), 2025;...
FINAL Challenge #16
Hook – Mustad 9671, size #6 - #12. De-barb and sharpen. Thread – Black. Tail – Fox Squirrel tail hair, quite bushy. Body – Wool or floss, brown-yellow-brown segments wound onto hook shank. Wings – Fox Squirrel tail hair, quite bushy, divided and slanting forward....
Answer to Challenge #15
The correct/acceptable answer for challenge #15 is, the Silver Thorn. The Silver Thorn is an original fly pattern for Coho and Chinook salmon tied with a minimalist approach by Barry Thornton. The waters around the East end of Denman and Hornby Islands, Chrome Island...
