With the disruption of the 2020 fall Steelhead season its been a challenge to keep everyone busy and active. A normal guide program leaves little time for anything else and requires full dedication to the schedule. It also gets you outside in nature where we excel. With all that in mind, we have been trying […]
Month: September 2020
EPIC Canadian Caesars!
Sure it may have been the great quest for Northern BC steelhead that drew you up initially, but we all know it’s the great taste of an EPIC Canadian Caesar that keeps you coming back for more! A bit of History Although we can’t take all the credit for this drink as the Bloody Mary
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Techniques from a Liberal Guide for Talking Politics with Clients
So 3 anglers show up in your boat. Young, lots of Patagonia and a flat brim or two. They’re from Oregon and you know Portlands there – clear cut liberals. So you dip into your best bleeding heart material but this turns out to be a case of mistaken identity. Well camouflaged in progressive plumage […]
Cheating on the Babine with Logan Wilkins
With an unusual amount of days off this fall, our guide staff are getting to spend more time exploring each others waters. With the devastation that Covid has left behind time spent on the water with each other has meant more than ever. Follow along as Dave Page and Logan Wilkins attempt to skate up
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3 keys to catching more steelhead
Join Epic guides Corwin Trent and Danny Hollins as they share some on the water lessons on how to catch more fish. Catching fish is always the bonus when you chase anadromous species but you may as well put your best foot forward in the pursuit. This new video shares 3 quick things you can
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Coming home to the Babine by Sonja Coates
by Sonja Coates To be completely honest, each season at the Babine Steelhead Lodge has come to represent much more of an annual retreat for me than simply a job I choose to return to every year. As someone who has spent much of the past decade travelling & living outside of Canada, in lands
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How To: Rig up your rods
Today I’m going to introduce you to part one of the three part series. In this first segment we will be going over how to rig up a Skagit rod from the start. Obviously having a good quality reel and rod are a very important first step. After that many are left asking themselves “what […]
Ebbs and Flows of Steelhead
This season has been a tough one due to very wet conditions. After the wettest August on record September was finally dry and sunny. The rivers were so high and brown that it took several weeks for things to fall into what we like to call “perfect”. This video was shot on a day
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Throwback Thursday: Remembering fishing boots on the ground
As the sport of fly-fishing grows in popularity the technology used to get out has progressed as well. Access to small rafts is cheaper and easier than ever allowing people to get out and go for floats. This means covering more water and being able to access sections of the river that might otherwise be […]
Epic Dry Fly Take
Oliver has had this shot in mind for quite some time now and he figured the best pace to get it was in the crystal clear waters of the Morice River. They took a few takes of it but ended up using the very first take. The behind the scenes was pretty comical for this
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