Fishing With Toddlers
After many challenging fishing trips, I have developed a comprehensive numerical system my checklist to help make these trips more enjoyable for all.
Your Outboard Won’t Start at Sea – What Now?
Have you ever been on the water and found yourself with a dead outboard?
Fishing Effectively With Plugs
Plugs will help you catch salmon right out of the box, but there are a couple of tricks to make them more effective.
Teaser Head Herring: Part 1
How and why you should fish the Britsh Columbia coast with teaser heads and bait. This artile shows you how to set up you teaser heads and leaders.
Halibut Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Halibut season is in full swing, here's some tips to help you on and off the water.
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.
Fish CPR: Catch, Photo, Release
With new Fraser River Chinook conservation measures in effect this year, there are a lot more posts about anglers catching and releasing Chinook. Heres how to do it.
Chart Plotter Download: 1 Mile from Surf Line West Coast Vancouver Island
It requires a lot of time to individually punch in a series of GPS “waypoints” into a chart plotter. We thought it would be beneficial to have an easy-to-download file for those who would like to fish the west coast of Vancouver Island, and keep within regulations for retention.
Choosing the Right Fishing Line
There was a time in my fishing career that I paid little attention to the less glamorous aspects of my fishing gear. I’d spend thousands on the boat and electronics and hundreds on rods, reels, spoons and plugs, and yet I would neglect the little things like swivels, hooks and, most importantly, line.
Winter Chinook Fishing: The Essentials
One of the great features of salmon fishing on the BC coast is that anglers fish for them 365 days a year, subject to local time and area restrictions. Of course, this opportunity only applies to Chinook salmon, as the other species are either still way out in the open ocean or too small to be legal quarry outside the traditional summer season. Thanks to the multi-year coastal rearing life history of many Chinook stocks, productive fishing for them can be had right through the winter months.