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... A Sight Fished BC Interior Bow on the Hook!

… 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 improve your fly fishing! Thanks Jason for allowing us to share this invaluable information on flyguys.net!

…read on to learn all about it!

....... FGN's Fly Tying Tips & Tricks!

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 some new patterns! With that in mind, I thought I’d post up a few handy dandy practical DIY tying tips that you can try and see if they work to make things a bit easier as well as save you time & money!

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Know the Best Fishing Times of Your Favourite Lakes Before Leaving Home!

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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 fishing rods, fishing reels or fishing lines. You don’t need an elaborate anchoring system. Hell you don’t even need a large supply of flies or lures. It is simplicity at it’s best AND it’s something you can do with the whole family!

oh & did I mention you can catch some monster fish too!!!

Now of course you could spend all the money you want on fancy gear as they make as many gadgets and gizmotrons for ice fishing as they do for any other sport. But this article isn’t about that. This article is about the ice fishing basics. Ice fishing 101 – how to have a blast pursuing big BC bows through the ice on a shoe string budget! …….read on to find out how!

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 a couple of fly patterns similar to the ones we had been shown.

These flies were large, had a bead head and were thinly wrapped with various colors of shiny tinsel. I sorta chuckled at Pat’s purchase because these flies didn’t look like any Chironomid I had ever seen and were longer than all but the biggest Chironomids. However, the next day Pat caught fish with these flies and corky as long as there wasn’t any retrieve. The fly had to be perfectly still without even a wind drift. Meanwhile (more…)

The Importance of Fly Selection & Presentation

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 day? … read on & find out now!

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.

… read on for Pacific Salmon ID Chart & How To Fishing Methods!

Fly Fishing in the Fall

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 but the days are getting shorter, the sun angle is down and the aquatic plants will soon start to die. (more…)

A Fly Fished Fraser River Pink (humpy) Salmon

If you’re interested in targeting river run pacific salmon on the fly then you better get to know the humpy!

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If you’re talking Bar Fishing then you’re talking Chinook salmon fishing! Chinook (AKA Spring, King or Tyee) salmon are the biggest of the five pacific salmon and these fish can get huge!

Mio with his 30 lb Fraser River Spring salmon!

Chinooks are the first salmon to enter the Fraser River and its tributaries and it’s therefore not uncommon to see people out fishing for them as early as May, or as early as they are open to fish. These fish put up one hell of a fight, especially in the current of the mighty Fraser, and are the most exciting species that we have fished (more…)

trolling ... an effective fly fishing technique!

……. article by Ron Newman.

The most basic of fly fishing techniques is to drag a fly behind your watercraft. The hard-nosed purest will say that this is trolling rather than fly fishing. Well, yes, it is trolling. But it is also fly fishing without participating in the casting portion of the sport.

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Summer time fly fishing in the beautiful BC Interior!

By mid-July, the quantity and frequency of our “hatches” will be past their seasonal peaks. Those bugs that come to the lake surface to turn into adults (Chironomid, Mayfly, Caddis, Dragonfly and Damselfly) will all be hatching in numbers below the annual average for the rest of the year.

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