Exploring The Cheakamus River..

I have not yet been able too get up to the upper Squamish yet, so I have been fishing the Cheakumas River. I have been finding fish down around the Chair Run, and the Powerline Run, and one other spot that my buddy Clint calls the Frogmen Run, a nice run up against a cutbank that I did pull out a couple of fish. All these spots are really nice runs, good swing water!!!.. That's what you want. I fished some spots above Sunwolf, that produced some action. Usually I fish big intruder's, but these days I have been fishing some flesh flies, white and grey and coral and white, those dollies seem too like those colours.. It's been fun to explore the Cheakumas, but it's time to head for the upper squamish and fish some bigger water, and swing some bigger flies..

Totems, Kingfisher's.. Squamish River April 14th 2013..

The Totems, and Kingfisher's had their outing on the Squamish river, and I went  too join them for the bbq, down at the Ashlu Campsite. I went up early and ran into Jonathon at 27mile, and we fished most of the day and I hooked up with a nice size Bully too start the day off right. As luck would have it that was the only fish that we got between us. It was a nice sunny day and it was great too be out fishing with Jonathon. We ran into some of the other guys, and at the bbq, at the campground the results were in as to how everyone did. There were a few Steelhead hooked up on in other areas of the river. That was good to hear with the amount of guys out there. It was good too see Terry, and Ralph and have some good conversation. There was some casting practice going on with bamboo rods that some of the guys were fishing with. The food was great, and fun was had!!..

Stu Foxall Flytying Course..

A couple weeks ago I went too a flytying course at Sunwolf hosted by Whistler Flyfishing, as part of the Cast and Blast.. It was at Sunwolf on the banks of the cheakamus River in Squamish.. The evening consisted of tying flies using different materials and techniques to make the fly look big and buggy to the eye. There were five of us sitting around a table and given all the materials too tie the fly that Stuart was showing us. It was a step by step instruction that enabled us to tie the fly using materials in dubbing loops. The first one was a Steelhead Intruder. The second one was called the Squamish Prawn, on a tube. It was a great instructional tying course. Here are pictures of the finished flies, that I tied..

Exploring The Farmer's Fields.

A few weeks ago Andy, and I went to check out the mile 20 area on the upper squamish. We parked at the pullout just as the road turned from pavement to gravel, and began our quest to check out the river and find some new spots. Not far after we had left the car we came to a nice corner, and chucked a few casts to see what was there. After both of us had worked our way through it and had no luck at all we decided to move on to the next run. We bushwacked through some trees and found our way down to the river bank, we worked our way through a short run and we both hooked up on a couple dollies. After that we moved on to the next run and found a couple more big bulltrout. We fished through it for awhile and didn't pull anything more out of that spot. We decided to make our way back and try a couple of the spots we tried earlier to see if there might be something there. There were one or two, and that ended the day.. A bit of a walk, but it was worth it in the end.. A funny thing, we went back a week later too check it out again and every spot we wanted too fish we couldn't so we had to cross the river and hike down the Ashlu side down to Crooked Creek. It was a long trek but we did find one or two down there. We hiked backed up and went over a log jam and found another cool spot, that had a couple of bullies in it.. All in all it was good excercise, and lots of fresh air..

Bluebird Skies, In The Upper Squamish..

Winter had come too the upper squamish. Jess and I left in the morning about nine and headed up too mile 27, on the squamish one of my all time favourite areas too catch dollies and bulltrout. We were on the river at about 10am, and fished a nice little pocket where jess picked up a nice dolly, and had a couple other hits. We fished it for about an hour and then moved on too another little pocket where she had another one, two fish in two spots she was doing well!!.. Now we were on the other side of the river in a spot that I had fished before and caught steelhead and bulltrout off this corner. I knew that there were fish in there eventhough the river had changed since the last season.. We started at the corner and worked our way down through the run. As I showed her what to do and where too cast, she hooked up on another nice bulltrout... Who knew that would happen three for three now. By this time it was late afternoon and it would be dark soon so we made our way back across the river and onto the other side. Jess was totaly stoked about the day and she was so amazed at how she caught three nice fish.. The day was great, clear and sunny blue skies all the way around.. The valley looked amazing, the river bank was coated in white from the snowfall the night before.. Awesome!!..

Summer Fun On The Birkenhead River..

There was lots of good action on the Birkenhead, this summer. I did a few trips and caught fish everytime. Its a nice little river with lots of pockets, and pools, and some shallow runs with log jams and cutbanks. I had a few nice bulltrout, and some rainbows. I hadn't spent alot of time in past years up there but this summer seemed too be the best. There were all kinds of sockeye salmon spawning in the river. Sometimes one would bite the fly but not often. I went with Andy, Dan, and Ryan. The scenery is amazing, with all the mountains all around you, you can't go wrong with that..

First Annual North Shore Fish and Game Club Chum Derby and Spey Demo...

The N.S.F.G.C, held the first annual chum derby and spey demo. Cliff asked me too do the demo and it was alot of fun showing the guys what speyfishing was all about. And explaining how it makes life easier on the river, and is less tiring on the body, and also how you can cover more water in a single cast. The day started at 7:30am, and as everyone was getting organized, I gave a brief discussion on how it all works. We met at Judd Rd, at Fisherman's Park, a popular spot with easy access too the river. We set up at the sandy bar, and soon I had a group around me and I was showing them the casts, and how they work too get the line out into the river.. Afew of the guys allready had spey rods, so they were asking me questions and getting alittle more knowledge. I let some of the guys try it that didn't know how too and they had a blast learning something new. One guy I showed said that he had so much fun getting a lesson that he was going too get a set up of his own. That's pretty cool!!.. As the day went on some of the guys tried too get that all important chum to win the derby and claim his prize. That didn't happen where we were, but three other members were fishing where the Cheakamus, runs into the Squamish and had lots of fish on there, and at the Native run at the reserve area. They came back with the pics of the biggest fish to win the coveted prize, and stand victorious.. We had a bbq, that consisted of smokies and a can of pop. What a day it was super fun. And my buddy Cliff did a great job putting the whole thing 2gether.. It was great to see him and all the other guys that I new back when I was a member of the club..