Fly Fishing Kamloops British Columbia …

The flyguys are located in the interior of Canada’s beautiful British Columbia, where we are fortunate to be surrounded by hundreds of productive trout filled lakes & river systems. Our goal is to offer a place to share information & ideas promoting fishing in our spectacular province & beyond, with a focus on still water fly fishing Kamloops & the BC Interior area lakes! flyguys.net offers information on aquatic entomology, fly tying & fly patterns, fly fishing methods & techniques, and includes a wild fish & game recipes section with tips to care for & prepare your catch. We also offer Fishing Guide, Resort & Product reviews to help you make the most of your BC fishing vacations! Thanks for visiting! Enjoy your stay! 😀

Fly Fishing Kamloops | Recent Posts …

The Making of a Fishing God
November 14, 2021
The Making of a Fishing God First off let me introduce my new fishing God … Grizzly. This summer I had to put down my 13-year-old giant Alaskan Malamute and it left a huge hole in my wife and my life. Weeks later, as life sometimes does, I was thrown a life line and an opportunity to ...
Candied Brook Trout Recipe
November 1, 2021
Candied Brook Trout Recipe Here’s a quick & easy candied brook trout recipe that you’re going to love! The recipe will work with all types of fish but my preference is brook trout as it seems to firm up real nice! Thicker pieces are better so try to use fillets from 3lb+ fish. If that means ...
FGN Fly Fishing Road Trip 2021 – Finally!
October 21, 2021
Chilcotin Bound FGN Fly Fishing Road Trip 2021 The boys and I had missed out on two spring fishing trips and I have to say I was getting a little bit antsy. Late spring, I threw out the possibility of a Fall fly fishing road trip hoping that travel restrictions would allow it. Don had already booked ...
TFO Special Delivery Plus Floating Fly Line Review
September 1, 2021
TFO Special Delivery Plus Floater Floating Fly Line Review With floaters being the number one type of fly line used on our BC Interior stillwaters, it’s nice to see, and test, new technologies/ideas/brands as they come up. We are happy to offer the following floating fly line review. TFO describes their Special Delivery Plus Weight Forward Floater as ...
Kokanee Poke Bowl Recipe
July 7, 2021
Kokanee Poke Bowl Recipe A simply delicious land locked freshwater salmon recipe for those with a bit of an exotic palate! Disclaimer: With any raw fish, you run the risk of picking up any parasites that might be living in its meat. These parasites could be tapeworms, lung fluke, or other digestive bugs that will cause ...
TFO LK Legacy Fly Rod Review
May 20, 2021
TFO LK Legacy Fly Rod Review The new TFO LK Legacy series fly rods replaces the BVK in paying homage to TFO’s founding rod designer Lefty Kreh. The manufacturer describes the LK Legacy as “the ultimate “big water” trout rod for intermediate to advanced anglers” and “powerful & responsive with perfect tracking and crisp, smooth recovery.” The ...
The Lowly Ant | Gord’s Shiny Smooth Flying Ant Sinker
March 28, 2021
The Lowly Ant Gord’s Shiny Smooth Flying Ant Sinker Well as winter lingers on up North the fly tying Marches on. It will probably April on and there will be some May on days spread through the early Ice off. I’m getting to the point where I’ve pretty much filled in the gaps in my lake boxes. ...
Sawmill (Burnell) Fly Fishing & Ice Off Report 2021
March 28, 2021
Sawmill lake (Burnell lake) Fly Fishing / Ice Off Report 2021 by Glen Heward Been planning a trip to Sawmill for 2021 since last April. Due to Covid, I couldn’t camp up there, but did sneak in a great day of fishing in 2020. I’m a newer fly fisherman, but let me tell you, I’m hooked! A friend ...
Chironomid Religion | The Church Window Chironomid
February 20, 2021
After some time discussing the “church window” effect with retired fisheries biologist/local Kamloops fly fishing enthusiast Richard Bailey, he has graciously taken the time to share a write up on the what it is, the why it’s important, and the how he has implemented it into the chrironomid pupae tying process. Richard has been fly fishing ...
Osprey Fly Box – Flies of the Pacific Northwest | Book Review
January 24, 2021
The Osprey Fly Box Flies of the Pacific Northwest Book Review I finally got the chance to sit down uninterrupted, something that doesn’t happen much lately, and read through the Osprey Fly Box’s latest publication: their 50th anniversary edition of Flies of the Pacific Northwest. I’ll get into more detail within the review but if I had to ...
Strip Leech
January 13, 2021
Big thanks to Devan Sieben for sharing his Strip Leech fly with us! This beauty has fish magnet written all over it and I can’t wait to tie some up and give them a go! The Strip Leech (..by Devan Sieben) My version of the Strip Leech came to me out of necessity. I have a bad ...
Pornomid Chironomid Pupa Fly Pattern
January 2, 2021
The Pornomid Chironomid Pupa Fly I’m not sure when the Pornomid fly was developed, or who developed it, or even if the fly I was initially shown, and to this day refer to as the pornomid, is actually in fact the pornomid, or not! What I do know is that it was the early 2000’s when I ...
Muddled Leech Fly Pattern
December 31, 2020
The Muddled Leech Fly Pattern I designed the muddled leech to have more neutral buoyancy as a lot of my leeches had bead heads. Leaving off the bead, and adding the deer hair, allows for the muddled leech to be retrieved super slow, which is sometimes necessary, but hard to accomplish, with regular type leech flies. ...
Chatwin Heirloom Crucial Knife Set Review
November 22, 2020
Chatwin Heirloom Crucial Knife Set Review I am not a chef, but I really like to cook. I especially like to cook from “scratch” and do as much by hand as possible. I’m not especially knowledgeable about different qualities of knives/steel, and since mine cut alright, I wasn’t looking for anything new. Then my husband came ...