One of the fun things about guiding is having the ability to target all kinds of species throughout the year. As much as I love steelhead I also enjoy all the other fish that we catch. In the summer I find myself chasing kings one day, and trout the next, and in the coastal camps […]
Make it Rain This is no joke. I am going crazy. It should be the heart of the winter steelhead season in Northern California, and I should be making all kinds of excuses to be on the coast, chasing big dime bright steelhead just coming in from the Pacific. But it won’t rain… This time […]
Winter 2014: As I look back at the lower Skeena, winter started on November 16th. That was the day I stopped chasing the summer steelhead run on the upper tributaries. My sights were set on the fall/winter run on the lower Skeena system. Unlike most anglers I was determined to stay with my long head spey lines throughout the winter. The reason for this decision was that I found the […]
Although some of our runs here in haida Gwaii are big wide open gravel bars akin to the Bulkley or Morice with enough room to carelessly fling flies in any direction, others are quite opposite. With grabby trees above your head, and looming over soft bouldery buckets, each cast we make has to be well […]
It’s showtime! I have been running around dragging booths, TV’s, business cards and guides to promote The Fly Shop and the amazing places we represent for over a week, and we are only half way there! The ISE Sportsmen’s Show continues this weekend in Denver Colorado. Last weekend we were down in Sacramanto California promoting […]
The entire skeena system is famous for having steelhead that are eager to take a dry fly and the 2013 season showed us just how good it can be. It was far and away the best dry fly season in the past decade. The season started out well for us as the early return in […]
The Trinity River in Northern California is my home river. I have had the pleasure of swinging flies for steelhead all the way around the Pacific rim, from California up and around through the States, BC and Alaska, and down into the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, but the Trinity always feels like home. The Trinity, […]
Low and behold the Bulkley River has been blessed by the grace of God a low water year. How does that translate to fishing you ask? When you figure out where they are hiding it is incredible. Fishing low water has usually been pure joy for our guide team. To see runs that we haven’t […]
A few weeks ago, I had a chance to meet up with an old (actually he’s pretty young) friend to fish new waters. Our plan A was to go to the Thompson, but it closed after the first of November. We planned to leave on the 18th. What to do?? I called a friend (Jeff […]
Whenever I take a steelheading or any other fishing trip, I get the First Day Blues. I can prepare all I want and I will have a major fuck-up on my first day. I don’t know why this happens. I can get to my destination camp or room or lodge with all of my equipment […]