Vancouver Island herring (Photo: Gibran White) Before the 1980s, bait fishermen had three options: cut plugging, mooch- ing with live herring, or trolling herring strip. Fifty years ago, strip rigging in a teaser head was...

Fishing the West Coast of Vancouver Island, BC (Photo: Joel Unickow) The bite is on, the salmon are running, and the halibut are hitting hard. But amidst this piscatorial paradise, there’s a pesky problem that...

Often a tackle salesman gets asked the dreaded question by customers for that one impossible request: “Can I get one rod for every type of fishing—salmon, bottom fish, and even river fishing?” And of course...

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 the same company, can be quite different in their casting...