Cold snap is over and just a bad dream now. I’ve been using this warm spell to melt away the bad memories and continue my unheralded run of fishing the Peace River in the winter. I thought I’d change my method of attack and try some drift fishing. I planned to drift some jigs but [...]

For me it always seems that November and December are so busy that I never make it down to the my tying desk. It’s usually about the end of January that my life gets a bit of a lull and I can get serious about filling the gaps in my fly boxes and tying up [...]

“… it has military colours but a little too much bling for a simple enlisted man so I call it … the “Major General!” Required Materials: Hook: Togens Scud #12 Bead: Togen Magic Brown 3/32 Rib: Copper Brown (Small) Body: Olive 8/0 Overbody: Thin strip of antistatic bag Gills: White Antron Thorax: Peacock Herl Tying [...]

Shrimp are present throughout the entire open water season therefor making them a very important food source for trout.  They are particularily useful in the early spring and late fall when forage for other insects is scarce as the main hatches have either yet to start or have already run their course. Their constant presence [...]

This is one of my family’s all time favourite simple lunch meals! A quick and easy, yet healthy and nutritious, Italian style deli sandwich made with organic corned venison! This is one of those recipes where less is more … the fewer the ingredients the better … just enough to compliment the flavour of the [...]

Know the Best Fishing Times of Your Favourite Lakes Before Leaving Home! This solunar table is a free application from SolunarForecast.com. It is relatively easy to use and has proven it’s self very accurate! Although the paid version offers more features, this free version comes with: Minor and Major Feed Periods Best Fishing days (star [...]

For what it’s worth, my letter to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency regarding the Site C BC Hydro Dam project on BC’s Peace River … Let me lead off with I don’t really believe this will get read or have any bearing to what appears to be a direct path to Site ‘C’. This is [...]

So the other day I received a question on our 2012 Fishing Reports page asking for some information on locations to fish for burbot in the BC Interior. Although we try to make a couple trips each year to hunt these fantastically delicious creatures, up until the point of the question the thought hadn’t even [...]

Sponsored by Surplus Herby’s! … the one stop shop for all your fishing & outdoor needs! Hard to believe 2011 has come to an end! But it has so … welcome to the Official flyguys.net 2012 Fishing & Ice Off Reports post! As before, please use the comments / reply section at the bottom of this [...]

Getting skunked on the last outing of the year was a little disappointing    so the only way to change that was to make it the second last outing! With my partner in crime, Steve, in Edmonton watching the World Juniors (lucky bastard) it was going to be just the mutt in the jeep with me. [...]

It’s never windy underwater …. the fish are lucky! A couple of days before Xmas and the weather has been above seasonal for a while now so you really couldn’t call it a Chinook. Didn’t matter though cause anything above zero and we were going to try the river! The river was running real high [...]

Hello guys and gals, We (that’s me David and my buddy Chris) had a very steady and fun season fishing small lakes near and far from Kelowna.  We truly enjoy the beautiful nature and quietness of those small remote lakes (of course big rainbows are always a plus! ). Our most productive patterns this year [...]

We love ice fishing! You want to know why we love ice fishing? OK, I’ll tell you why we love ice fishing. Ice fishing is one of those sports that almost anyone can do! You don’t need a boat or motor or a truck to haul them both. You don’t need a bunch of fancy [...]

This summer, my friend and old school chum, Pat Harrison, came up for his annual fishing trip. On the first day, folks were catching fish on a large Chironomid and corky. Pat had always wanted to try fishing with a corky so that evening we stopped at Wholesale Sports and he bought some corkys and [...]

Tis the season so we thought we’d post up a recipe for one of those cuts of meat that has received a bad rap over the years … the shank. Most hunters just grind them up for burger thinking that they are much too tough to cook any other way. Well … this Italian style Osso Buco recipe just might change your mind!  A [...]

Saturday morning the alarm goes off and the wife gets up and starts to get ready for work. I on the other hand burrow deep under the comforter and listen to the wind rattle the bedroom windows as it has all night. I really should take the dog, get him out and go fishing. I [...]

Most of us have a really broad selection of flies in our fly boxes. In fact, some of us could use ten different flies every day of the year without using the same fly twice. So just how important is it that we get just the right fly for a given lake on a given [...]

Fall in the North, in a good year, is Labour Day to Halloween. Mess around too much and you miss it altogether!  With that in mind Steve and I headed out to Base Camp after work on Thursday excited about a shot at hungry fall trout! We knew it was going to be windy on [...]

It was late Wednesday evening when the wife leaned in and whispered those seven magical words ….. “I’ve got a hankering for some rainbow!”  Well that snapped me out of my semi-comatose state! There’s nothing like a pre-ordained, spousal approved fishing trip! Usually when I want a feed of rainbow I go to one of [...]

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Mid September and it was time to try Pete Lake, figuring the algae bloom would have died down. The day before Steve and I went was 30C and that’s about as hot as it gets in these parts. Strange summer/fall! We were able to find a new quad trail to the lake and were able [...]

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon migrate while trout are resident. Salmon live in the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans. Of primary concern to BC flyguys is the Pacific salmon & this will be our focus on the site. [...]

By the time you read this, it will be mid-September and we will be into the Fall fishing season. At this time of year, the water is beginning to cool, the major hatches are over, the bugs are mostly small in size and the food selection for the fish is limited. Oxygen levels are high [...]

If you’re interested in targeting river run pacific salmon on the fly then you better get to know the humpy! Pink salmon (AKA humpys) run in a two-year cycle. They are one of the last salmon to enter the Fraser River and its tributaries commonly  beginning around mid August to the end of September. Unlike [...]

Mid August and off the wife and I went on our annual Soak up the Sun Summer tour. As usual we headed for Kamloops and Vernon. They were calling for temperatures in the 30′s C and that was just fine with us as we don’t have to deal with that kind of hot weather living [...]