Wandering November
The end of the season is an awesome time of the year for the staff. It signals the time to step back from the draining season and get back to basics on the rivers. Great friends throwing some lines, catching a few…
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PINCH ME, PLZ!
At first I thought I had downloaded a dream then after the first couple of paragraphs my vision became blurry, I had to stop reading. It was overwhelming! It was the first thirty five pages of layout for my book I was…
Winter Steelhead just isn’t for you
Too many articles have been written about winter steelhead, so I shall tread lightly. As most readers know, this is a very difficult fishery for those who do it on a swung fly. Not to take anything away from indicator…
Epic Waters Fall 2016 #PhotoEssay
This fall was as predictable as picking lottery numbers. The weather came in constant waves, boats died en masse, fish were there one day and gone the next and each day brought some new set of problems around the lodge.…
SILVER AND GOLD – SOUTH OF THE BORDER
I try not to build high expectations for any trip. But sometimes it is impossible for me not to attach some goals to another adventure. This trip had been 50 years in the making and 5 years of saving for…
A Black Wolf, Ava, Madoff and a Grizzly + Sam McGee
A few short years ago, aside from the steelhead fishing while guiding at Damdochax Lodge under the supervision of Hannah Belford some noteworthy incidents occurred. The experience, probably one of the most physically demanding guiding jobs of its kind was…
Life, Death and Steelhead
Some trips out on the river are easy pickings, while others are so hard it nearly seems futile. Fishing is very much like life in that sense. 2016 has been filled with ups and downs for both me and my…
2016 – An #EPIC Year
2016 has been really good to Epic. I’ve had the privilege to be involved with and spend time at every operation Epic owns, manages or represents. Over the past 8 months I’ve travelled to some of British Columbia’s most amazing…
Epics Day on the Skeena : Photo Blog
Heading out from Smithers : Frontier Farwest Andrea doing some pregnant sockeye fishing : Due date mid Sept
Bulkley Special Fly recipe
The name says it all really. Its another egg sucking leech in classic Bulkley River colors. In case you’ve never fished the Bulkley, its a bit of a goldilocks river. The way it sets up for the swung fly in…
2017 BC Salmon Overview
An excellent Overview of the 2016 Salmon Season & Outlook for 2017 by Greg Taylor of DFO’s recent forecast. The conclusion? “Marine and freshwater environmental conditions from 2013 through 2016 makes it even more problematic than usual to forecast salmon…
Fishy Papers
Correlation between Heart and Skeletal Muscle Inflammation (HSMI) in farmed fish and Piscine Rio-Virus (PRV) in wild salmon. Can we call this a smoking gun yet? http://www.theprovince.com/news/local+news/deadly+disease+diagnosed+salm…