The essence of fly fishing.

Just some pictures from last week that capture the essence of fly fishing! Next week i will post some chinook pics but first enjoy where fly fishing is all about. 

End of spring steelhead season!

The last week was the best of the entire steelhead spring season!!! So that confirmed my suspission that the steelhead where late this year. I have seen in in 2007 when we had a similar snow pack and spring. Max was our only client last week and the fishing was very good. He lost several big fish but we lost a Buck in the high twenties close by the net. We had to chase this fish a couple hundred yards down the river. At this moment there are still a lot of steelhead coming up the river, but now they will have a break. So you never know when they show up, they have there own agenda and we just have to deal wit that. Sometimes it is frustrating when you know there is no fish, you come back a week or so and there they are! There is nothing so unpredictable as spring steelhead because they do not stay in the river like there summer run causins.

No we are looking forward to our Chinook salmon salmons (king) and that is my favourite time of the year. We will see broken rods, reel, backing, lines etc. This is the time it looks more like big game fishing then fly fishing! But before we start i will be making a pilot trip to our new guide destination here in BC. What can i tell you about this secretive trout destination? Not much. But it is a super remote lake close to the Yukon border where we have giant rainbow trout! So when we get back, a nice trip report will follow on our blog with info and booking dates. It is a small window that we can catch these big trout so space is only limited to 8 anglers!

I landed the last fish of the season.

 Max from Argentina hooked a good number of steelhead. Here he holds a super fresh hen just from the salt!

Yes this picture is taken May 10th! There is still over 4 feet of snow on the banks on this secret river.

BC chrome!

We had 2 weeks of tough fishing! The Skeena blew out 2 weeks to early! And the cold spring delayed the spring run, we finally got a good push of steelhead! Fly fishing for spring steelhead is always tough and considered the pinnacle of fly fishing.

 Bill and Derek with a nice buck.

Hans and derek with a nice hen.

Keith with a BIG buck.

Brian with a hot hen.

Hans with a nice buck.

A very nice big hen for HAns. He is on fire.

Jacob with a very hot hen.

Going remote with a heli!

We did a remote exploration trip to a helicopter only river. The river was a bit low and there was almost no steelhead in the river. We only saw 1 fish. But it was fun to raft down in complete wilderness. We did see moose and other wild life that made this trip a success. We have a strange year, the steelhead run is smaller than normal and they are very late! Maybe it is the long winter, the huge amount of snow, r the cold water! But they are not here in the numbers they should have been.

Difficult to see but you can see a 20 pound Buck steelhead laying in the sun. We did not manage to catch this fish. But it was sure fun to try!

Great weather and steelhead.

We had a great week of steelheading with some big fish! Senator (Oregon) Frank Moors landed the biggest fish of the week a 22 pound buck! The river came up and the Skeena River was blown out. This is a bit earlier then we are used to. But after a difficult week we are still hooking fish. All chrome just from the salt!

Rob with a nice Skeena Hen.

What a fish! This is a true fish of a life time!

Gina with the biggest fish landed! of the week.
John with a 36 inch hen.

The chrome is in the river!

Marc with a very nice fresh buck.
John, with a nickel bright hen.
Gina with a hot hen.