Pinks for Pinks
Standard high-producing flies, such as the Pink Handlebar and Cathy’s Coat, are likely the main ammunition for most fly fishers. However..
Category Archives: Island Fly
SimpliFLY Review: Deserving Of Our Gear For The Year Award
The SimpliFLY is a well-built, well thought-out fly storage system that is easy to use and is a must for any serious fly fisherman. Worthy of our Gear For the Year Award.
Fly of The Month: Hot Pink Rosie
Hook – Mustad 9049, size #6. Debarb and sharpen Thread – Fluorescent pink.
Tying the Zug-bug (bead-head)
A single, generic form of nymph will often cover a lot of circumstances when those common insects are active.
How To Pick A Fly Fishing Rod
“How do I pick a fly rod?” It’s certainly a valid question, and although experienced fly-fishers often look at beginners with a wondering eye when they ask that, if you take a moment to think about it, it is probably the first really good question beginners ask.
The Downtown Fly Fisher
A quick fish fix can be had pretty much right outside one’s own back door or within a stone’s throw from the shopping and business centres. As an added bonus, several urban lakes offer wheelchair accessible platforms.
Shallow Water Solutions
For fly fishers, shallow water is a relative term. For most of us it means water less than three feet deep. Many of the best places on streams and along salt-water beaches, where fly fishing is often most effective, are only this deep. Some anglers find it surprising, but good-sized fish can and do utilize these shallow areas for feeding...
Minnows for Island Lakes
Here on Vancouver Island we have ample opportunity to fish low-lying lakes and even the ocean estuaries and beaches in winter or early spring. Many of these lakes have natural or stocked populations of cutthroat trout.
Enigmatic Winter-Run Steelhead
In my opinion, winter-run steelhead are simply the toughest fly-fishing challenge on coastal streams—period. If there is any form of fly fishing that requires anglers to pay their dues by putting in countless long hours and many days before being graced with a hook-up from their quarry, winter-run steelhead fly-fishing is it.