Photography by Nick Didlick A chrome bright winter Steelhead lies still for a photograph shortly before being released back into the Pitt River in British Columbia. This picture is available for you to download to use as a desktop picture for your computer by right clicking on the photo and...

Review by Mark Hume Almost everyone who is into quality fly fishing gear has a Hardy somewhere in their collection. I have a cane C.C. de France rod which is about 100 years old and is still beautiful, and recently gave to my grown daughter a fiberglass rod that is 50 years old. I doubt that...

 Story by Mark Hume Photographs from the book The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass, © 2011 by Wade Davis. The book is published by Greystone Books, an imprint of D&M Publishers in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundations. Reprinted with permission...

Story by Peter McMullan An historically important link with the early days of steelhead fishing in British Columbia is changing ownership. The Babine Norlakes Steelhead Camp, one of just three such operations on the famous 61-mile long river, is passing from the hands of Pierce and Anita Clegg...

Story by Mark Hume A watershed in the northwest that is facing mine and gas developments and another on the Pacific coast that is the site of a proposed hydropower project, have topped the “most endangered rivers” list in British Columbia for 2012. The list, compiled annually for the past...

Every year the Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia lists B.C.’s 10 most endangered rivers. The Sacred Watershed photographed by Brian Huntington of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition is this months a Celebration of Rivers is our Opening Shot. This picture is...

Story by Mark Hume The Kokish River drops quickly down out of the mountains along the backbone of Vancouver Island, near the small town of Port McNeil. It supports endangered summer and winter runs of steelhead, as well as five species of wild salmon, cutthroat trout and Dolly Varden. It’s...

Story by Mark Hume In the big scheme of things on the Pacific Coast it may be that Spanish Bank Creek is meaningless. Then again, this little stream that trickles down out of housing developments, crosses under busy roads and plunges through a wild ravine before flowing into the harbour of a...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Mike Sturk Mike Sturk is not a fly fishing guide. He’s just a professional photographer who fly fishes whenever he can. “One of the local fly shops did try to recruit me,” he says, as he steers his truck through the busy downtown streets in...