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Gord's Moltin' Dragon!

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 flipped it up onto my tube apron and was a little freaked to see it was a dragon nymph. At first I thought it was an albino nymph but actually it was a watery pale minty colour.

It was later that I learned about the instars when the nymphs shed their skins as they grow bigger. It’s at this time, when the nymph has rid itself of the old skin, that it’s a  bright green, growing darker as the new body hardens. The reason you rarely see them like this is they know they scream dinner to any prey in the area so they lie low. With dragons living up to four years before becoming adults they have many instars and don’t ever think that the trout aren’t aware of this!

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... "come on already let's go fishing!"

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.

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....... 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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The "Major General" ... by Christian Lodders

“… it has military colours but a little too much bling for a simple enlisted man so I call it … the “Major General!”

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The Golden Scud Back Shrimp!

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 also makes them a great searching pattern!

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... the "krazy calabrese" corned venison sandwich!

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 already delicious corned venison!

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

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The beautiful Peace River valley ... sans Site C!

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 …

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Mamma Rosa's Simple (yet delicious) Fried Burbot!

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 crossed my mind … but now it was all I could think of!

Through out the rest of the day Mr. Stomach relentlessly sent messages to Mr. Brain and by mid afternoon Mr. Brain gave in and we were on our way to attempt to capture tomorrow nights supper! The good news is that we were successful in our quest. The even better news is that Mamma Rosa volunteered to cook some up for us!

For those of you that have experienced fresh cod cooked the right way you know what I mean. For those of you that haven’t you’re really in for a treat! So without further a do …  here’s Mamma Rosa’s extremely simple yet delicious fried Burbot cod recipe!

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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!

… get the fishing scoop on what’s hot & what’s not here!

... and just like 2011, away she goes!

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. The weather is still holding but colder temps and snow are forecasted for tomorrow. A couple of degrees below zero but with sun makes the river still doable even with the ever present wind. …read the rest of this post now! »

Wind Storm on the Peace River!

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! …read the rest of this post now! »