Steve Morrow (the good photos are by Jimmie Pedersen!) FUMBLING MY WAY IN The fall steelhead season is our busiest time of year and theres not a lot of opportunity to get out personal fishing. When the perfect opportunity arrives,…
Dave Page puts down the rod and waders to tie his favourite fly while giving us a brief bio. You know Dave from all things Babine, Frontier and of course Epic. Look for him soon chasing bows on the Columbia…
Flying from Anchorage is pure Alaskan concentrate. It’s that kind of aerial imagery that David Attenbourgh narrates. Blankets of mountains, countless ribbons of water, and the sparkling Pacific sprawling to the west. Tarns cling to alpine and ice chokes the…
Fly fishing is a game of inches, and subtleties that ultimately determines success and failure. Actions typically need to be small, subtle, and never too exaggerated. From casting, to mending, to fighting the fish, you need to really be in…
In the multiverse of fly fishing, is there any other venue where anglers so obsess over the way a fish responds to their fly than in the world of swinging flies for steelhead? It must be one of the only…
Photos by Chase White At age 45, and with 25 years in the fishing business under my belt, I am certainly plugged into the old school OG category. Even using the term OG (Original Gangsta) dates me. My grey hair,…
What is there to be thankful for in this dumpster fire of a year? Not much and I’ve been dating papers 2021 for some time. I did however want a title you might read and if “Scarlett Johansson stuns with…
Skeena Fishtrap – Piggybacking on the success of the Columbia Fishtrap pilot, a similar project on the Skeena will be built by Lax Kw’alaams Fisheries, the Native Fish Society and the Wild Fish Conservancy (banner picture). Using nonintrusive enclosures…
The weather has been extremely unpredictable of late with extreme cold, than back to back snow storms into a warm pineapple express. This hasn’t been ideal for the rivers, but it certainly has had its moments. We had to postpone…
One of the bright spots this season was having our old guide and friend Frankie Blanchet up to the lodge for a quick visit. If there is a person that can instantly cheer up an entire staff with big smiles…
