Story by Van Egan with Photography by Nick Didlick (In the first and second instalments, Will Fischer returned to the river hed known as a young man, and found the grave of his beloved fishing dog. In the conclusion, he finds himself haunted by spirits again. But this time they are real. ....

Story by Van Egan with Photography by Nick Didlick ( In the opening story, Will Fischer returned alone to the river he’d known as a young man. The old cabin was worn with age, but still standing. And the river? On the first day it gave him a beautiful trout and he returned to the cabin...

By Mark Hume, with Photography by Nick Didlick Roderick Haig-Browns family home looks out over the shimmering waters of the Campbell River. From his desk, in the library, he could look out over the lawns that slope down to the rivers edge. It is said that he didn’t fish there, right in...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Nick Didlick Theres no mistaking the lineage as Jack Hemingway comes striding up the river bank with a big trout tied around his waist, the blood of the catch staining his waders. He looks for a moment if not like his famous father, Ernest Hemingway, then...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Scott Walker The great pike’s lair was discovered by accident. I’d wanted a plump whitefish to take home that day, as I fished a small lake about a 40 minute drive outside Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, so I replaced the...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Nick Didlick The College of Nymphology has convened on the banks of the Buller River and the professor, dressed in chest waders, a camouflage vest and battered boots, is holding forth. It’s all in the drift, he’s saying. You have to think in...

Story and Photography by Bob Wyatt He started it. Just wouldn’t let it lie. Threw down the gauntlet one night on the Virtual Fly Shop’s Chat Room. Actually, Lance Filimek of Elko, British Columbia, suggested something of the sort as we were discussing our intention to hook up on...

Story and Photography by Peter McMullan Business types collect business cards, fishermen too and for at least some of the same reasons. Indexed properly, even in this age of computer-driven databases, they provide an invaluable reminder of places visited ( rivers and lakes), contacts made and...

Story and Photography by Peter McMullan Sometimes it’s the fish we don’t catch that leave the most indelible images. Like the formidable chinook, 40 lbs at least, dark and with a great hooked kype, that slipped the barbless hook with net poised one evening last September off the...

Story and Photography by Dave Hadden During the evening of April 20, 1991, I successfully bid $325.00 for two days of guided fishing for summer run steelhead. I was at a live auction at a Campbell River Branch of the Steelhead Society of BC fundraiser and the guide who had offered his services...

Story by Van Egan with Photography by Nick Didlick Editors Note: This is Part I of a short story from an early addition of A River Never Sleeps.com, by the late Van Egan, a long time friend of Roderick Haig-Brown, and of ours. From the air the lake looked glassy smooth and the river funnelled...

Story by Mark Hume I wasn’t in the mood for an interview and neither was Jack Hemingway. So instead, we fished together, through a run on the Thompson River, and talked about steelhead and the river’s big trout and the grouse shooting he loved to do in British Columbia’s...