Spey Fishing Grand Slam
I learned how to cast a Spey rod to swing flies for steelhead. Steelhead have hands down been my favorite target species for a long time now and there is no option on method to use. Once you swing flies…
Category Steelhead
Another Season in Steelhead Paradise
From the moment I leave Smithers in early November until the moment I return in August I am always thinking about Frontier Steelhead Experience. Every season poses its’ own sets of challenges. Whether it is low tyee net counts to…
2014 ThrowBack Article: A beer lovers guide to fishing BC
Apologies to the Nickleback comment but here I delve into the beer scene of 2014. Things have changed a lot but this all seems to hold true. If you are coming to BC to swing flies for winter or summer…
Skeena steelhead for $650 a day
Weather directly effects our lives in a ver intrusive way each and every day. Over the past year it seems we have hardly had any luck at all. The Bulkley season saw one of the most pervasive blow out seasons…
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…
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…
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…
Come hell or LOW water
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…
Spey Fishing Seasonal Diary
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…
2013 Bulkley/Morice year in review
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…