What is a Hawaiian Snap?
Here's a rock-solid solution favoured by many Vancouver Island guides. Pre-tie your leaders with a Hawaiian snap. Simply pinch the snap together and put on your favourite lure.
Fishing with Circle Hooks
Use circle hook to prevent mortality and be able to release the fish unharmed.
How to Customize Lures to Suit Your Area
We all know some lures just work well straight out of the factory, while others require some adjustment. Your goal is to make the lures match the feed around your area and look like it is wounded.
How To Jig For Salmon in BC
Summer has arrived, and with it salmon jigging season. As summer progresses, the salmon move into shallower water closer to shore. This means that you can leave the downriggers at home and get jigging.
Jigging at the Pier in Campbell River
Fishing from a pier and shoreline can be very productive in heavy bait gatherings, for rockfish, and during the salmon returns. In this article, we’ll help you improve your pier and shoreline jigging game.
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.
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.
How to Fish Glow Lures Effectively
There is not much sunlight spectrum during the early mornings, late evenings, dark days, and deep depths to penetrate down the water column. So by charging your lures up with a high-powered flashlight or UV black light, you can fish them more effectively.
Fly Fishing Tips: Leaders and Tippets
All fly fishers have to use a leader. It’s just a fact of life. The problem is that lots of fly fishers don’t really have a good grasp of how to match the leader and tippet to the fly. This article is here to help.
Red vs White Spring Salmon
Commonly 5% to 30% of any particular run of Chinook will be whites. Traditionally, many fishermen thought that the colour of a salmon was due to its diet. However...
