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...

Story and Photography by  Bob Salisbury One section of my favourite small river in Tyrone winds along the boundary of the local golf course and golfers regularly stop to pass the time of day or to enquire about the quality of the fishing. Earlier in the year I was in the middle of the river,...

Welcome 2012! and as we reflect on last years fishing adventures and dream and plan this years trips we thought it might be nice to show you one mans trip of a lifetime. Sven’s dream was to come to Canada, learn to Spey cast and catch some really large Coho salmon on the fly. The result...

Story By Fred Laird It is sad that so much of the vigor of youth is spent acquiring the wisdom of age. January 6th, 2010, the snow that fell the week before Christmas still lingers on the ground; some of it anyway. Thats rare for these parts, these parts being the northwest corner of Virginia,...

Excerpt from the new book Skeena Steelhead Unknown Past, Uncertain Future Story by Bob Hooton with Photography by Dana Atagi   The world is replete with examples of fisheries that once were. Whether it be bluefin tuna, coral reef fishes of southeast Asia, the northern cod of eastern...

Photography by Nick Didlick The simple sign marking the Fly Fishing Only water on the Campbell River in Campbell River, British Columbia. The rivers around here where made famous by resident Authors like Roderick Haig-Brown and Van Gorman Egan. This picture is available for you to download to...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Mike Gage The Salmon River on Vancouver Island, rises as snow melt in Strathcona Provincial Park, and runs more than 80 kilometres before it hits the ocean, near the small town of Sayward. With the headwaters protected by the oldest park in British...

Story and Photography by Nick Didlick Dave’s Dream Dave’s Dream a.k.a. the Pitt River Special is a Steelhead Fly pattern that has proven itself for me over a number of steelheading seasons. A sparsely dressed fly, Dave’s Dream resembles a Comet Fly and works well in clear...

River Monsters – Book Review by Mark Hume True Stories of the Ones That Didn’t Get Away. Jeremy Wade, host of River Monsters on Animal Planet. Da Capo Press. US $26; Cnd $30. Jeremy Wade has just about as much fun fishing as you possibly could without getting killed. Not that he...

Story by Mark Hume with Photos by Nick Didlick On one side of the fence is E. Stanley Kroenke, an American multi-billionaire whose Douglas Lake Cattle Co. runs 20,000 head of cattle on more than 500,000 acres of rolling grasslands and pine forest in southern British Columbia. On the other side...

By Fred Laird with Photography by Mark Hume A book excerpt from – Casting from the Far Bank The morning sun was cresting the ridge on the east side of the North Branch River and beginning to light the top of Wrightsville Dam. The subtle change in air temperature that it caused began to...

Caught on fly and camera! Photography by Nick Didlick Caught on fly and camera! A rainbow trout couldn’t resist taking a large black fly on the Pitt River. This picture is available for you to download to use as a desktop picture for your computer by right clicking on the...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Nick Didlick Sockeye salmon in the Fraser River are dying from exhaustion and…cardiac collapse as they struggle to deal with water temperatures that are steadily rising because of climate change. A federal judicial inquiry, appointed by Prime...

Book Review by Mark Hume Babine – A 50-Year Celebration of a World-Renowned Steelhead and Trout River. By Pierce Clegg & Peter McMullan. Frank Amato Publications Inc. Perhaps it took new comers to see the true value of a great river that British Columbians had been taking for granted...