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* a big thanks to Brian for allowing us to share this invaluable information on flyguys.net! It’s a spring ritual observing Canada Geese defending mating territories and watching grown men in small aluminum boats trying to break up ice on an interior lake. Yes, spring is in the air and these anglers are jumping the [...]

Things are gettin’ a little ansy up this way! The lakes in the North Eastern region of British Columbia are seven to ten days away from being ice-off and it’s really hard reading about all the open water lake choices down in the Southern interior! This week though I saw my first Robin and the [...]

Well last weekend while the home office was no doubt sniffing out open water and wetting lines, we had a bit of a blizzard to deal with up this way. On the bright side, to get in shape for casting all day I shoveled the driveway …..again! This time of year one of the ways [...]

Having the trip planed for April 6 for over a month now we were pretty disappointed to read in the ice of reports that sawmill was still frozen. We decided to go anyways since we didn’t have any other options to go fishing that would offer the potential for good size fish like sawmill does [...]

My son Timbre wanted to go ice fishing so we planned a day to go out on Williston. Most of the small lakes have slowed right down but the big lake seems to always produce. Weather report was sunny with cloudy periods, highs around 4C and light winds. In other words a perfect day to [...]

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So there I was, sitting in the garage with a bottle of vino when I thought … “gee, a venison roast would really hit the spot right about now”! Fortunately for me I just happened to have some tender vitals tucked a way in the freezer from last seasons hunting trip! And not wanting to [...]

The Pheasant Tail Nymph is one of the oldest of modern fly fishing patterns.  Originally designed as a general imitation to many of the thin nymphs that exist in rivers, streams and stillwaters worldwide, it’s success in representing nymphs of the Baetis family allowed it to quickly become world famous. In this flyguys.net version of [...]

Well it was now time to do some ice fishing! I was out doing a little exploratory mission on Williston Lake a couple of weeks ago and there was over a foot of good clean ice. The lake, on the Peace Reach, had frozen around mid Jan. during the real cold snap. I could see [...]

… another extraordinary article by Jason Majoskey (Mr. Rainbow), this one on the topic of sight fishing for trophy BC rainbow trout on the productive & pristine still water lakes of the beautiful British Columbia interior.  A bit of a read but, as usual with Jason’s articles, well worth your time as it will definitely [...]

Throughout the open water season chironomids are the number one, and therefore the most important,  food item in a trouts diet.  Although they are perhaps the toughest discipline for the fly fisher to master, they offer the greatest rewards. If we could fish only one fly on the still water lakes of beautiful British Columbia [...]

Many moons ago when I was out tubing in Steward lake I saw my first molting dragonfly nymph. I was just kicking off from shore after a pit stop when my flippers washed up what at first I thought was plastic or foam. Not because it was floating but because of the vivid colour. I [...]

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 [...]