Musky are certainly high on the scale of difficulty when it comes to targeting them on the fly. Even when gear fishing for musky you are hard-pressed to expect any real consistency on the water. However, there are times in productive systems when it can turn on. Lake…
Welcome to the musky on-the-fly addiction. We may be gluttons for punishment but we need to stick together. What makes you want to fish for the most challenging species on a fly rod? Maybe it is some kind of ailment that folks are born with. Maybe it started…
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…
Between the years of 2000-and 20011, I was not a very hard guy to find in the months of June and July. I spent these months guiding in Katmai park on the lower American Creek in Bristol Bay Alaska. This…
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…
Well from COVID closed borders to cancelled flights and low returns, the 2020 fishing season has hardly been a win in northern BC. The steelheader in your life has likely sat on the sidelines waiting for the coach to put…
Originally published in 2014. Since I was 10 years old there has not been one time in my life when wild fish stocks did not need our help wherever I was fishing. I grew up fishing in the Catskill mountain…
Throwback article Not too many holidays land smack in the middle of prime fishing weeks, but the biggest one of note is Canadian Thanksgiving. It is here this weekend, and if you live up north you are either hunting or…
