Fly Fishing Gear Guide: Matching Rod Weight, Reels, and Lines to the Fight
Fly Fishing Gear Guide Matching Rod Weight, Reels, and Lines to the Fight by Bill Luscombe Fly fishing isn't a complex sport. And the beauty ...
Flies for Pink Salmon
August almost always finds me out at the river estuaries casting for pink salmon. There are many great patterns that work for these, the smallest ...
How To Pick A Fly Fishing Rod For Power
Photo: Bill Luscombe I am always surprised at the way different fly rods perform. Rods of the same weight and length, even when manufactured by ...
Winter Fishing for Sea-Run Cutthroat Trout in Coastal BC
When most of British Columbia is buried under ice and snow, many of us put away our fly-fishing equipment. Unless you have access to a ...
Coho on the Fly
I stood on the beach gazing east along the shoreline, squinting into the early morning sun and its glittering reflection off the sparkling ocean water. ...
Fly of the Month June 2022: Caddis Time
June sees the caddisfly hatch in full swing. On Vancouver Island rivers you can often encounter two hatches a day: one mid-day and one toward ...
Fly of the Month May 2022: Hatches are Hatching
May is the time of year on Vancouver Island when things really get going where insect hatches are concerned—almost everything is coming alive. Two of ...
Bucktails and Streamers
Big fish are “meat and potato” feeders, and they like big meals. They don’t bother with tiny flies much, if at all—there is just not ...
10 Most Common Fly Fishing Mistakes and How to Fix Them
I have been fishing pretty much all of my 63 years, and taught fly fishing for 31 of those years. In that time I have ...
Estuary Coho On The Fly
Fly fishing for coho is one of my favourite forms of angling and it's becoming increasingly popular as anglers look to the sea for an ...
