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..

Chum Run, 2012..

This year showed a remarcable comeback in the amount of chum salmon that graced us with their presence. I had lots of good days, swinging big flies and hooking up on lots of those bad boys. I couldn't remember the last time I had so much fun out there. Andy, and Kyle were getting some great action as well. Kyle was a little new too the swinging fly routine, and catching a ton of big chum, he soon realized just how much fun it was. We had some nice days and some realy ugly rainy days but it was all good.. I gave kyle a lesson in two handed casting and before I could blink an eye he was putting out 70ft casts.. Awesome to see. He bought a nice rod reel, and line setup, and is now ready too fish steelhead, dollies and big bug bull trout in the upper squamish.. I hope that the future years are as good, as this one..

Nita Lake Whistler BC..

A couple days ago, I went to meet up with Marie, to take her, for her first lake fishing adventure. We met at about 8-30am and headed for Nita Lake. It's right around Creekside. It's a small little lake so that made it all that much better to teach her the ways of lake fishing, and how to catch fish. We got set up and out on the lake we went to see if we could catch a few. I had never fished the lake so I didn't know what to expect, but because of the size of the lake we didn't have any problem catching fish. Marie caught a few, and I got a bunch and we had some good hits just trolling around some little nymph patterns. She brought her dog to so that was fun because she put her on the float tube and kicked around. It was an awesome day, we fished till the afternoon and then we went to get a few things, and then it was back to Marie's place and she cooked me a great lunch as usual. Then it was a little while later we went to the village square to listen to a band, we hung out for awhile and it was a fun day in Whistler.

Crash Course In Lake Fishing.

I took Susan, out on a small lake in Squamish, called Murrin Lake. It wouldn't have been my first choice but just to give her an idea of what lake fishing was all about I figured it would be the best bet. They had just stocked the lake with some catchable size rainbow trout, and lots of them. We went out in the early evening when it was quiet and not to many people were around. We arrived in the parking lot, and set up all our gear and took the float tubes out, and waders. We were on the lake for about an hour and the bite came on, with Susan starting things off. She caught some nice size trout and she was pretty happy with her efforts. It was the first time that she caught a fish on her 6wt, rod. It was the first time that she had ever been in a float tube, before and she thought it was great kicking around the lake with fins on. What a blast!!.. We ended up staying out on the lake until about 9pm, and then it was time to go. We made plans to go out on another adventure to a couple of lakes up in Pemberton. Ivey and Blackwater were the two choices. We went up on a weekday, so it wouldn't be to crowded and it wasn't. We fished Ivey in the morning, and had no luck at all, I guess the fish weren't hungry or they just weren't interested in anything we had to offer. We fished for four hours and then we came off the lake and had something to eat. Susan had brought all sorts of stuff for us to munch on, salad and cherries and cheese and crackers, it was awesome!!. After about an hour she said what about the other lake?. You mean Blackwater Lake?, and she said yeah that one. So we cruised up there and fished the rest of the evening and we did get alittle action there. She had a found a spot that some fish were jumping around, and she just trolled around with a little green nymph pattern and she caught three. Susan was happy to be out there all day, and so was I it was a great day, and we had lots of fun.. She was great company, and we had a lot of laughs.. Good times.