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,...

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,...

Story by Harvey Thommasen with Photography by Mark Hume The Tlell is a legendary salmon river that flows into Hecate Strait on the East Coast of Graham Island, which is part of the Haida Gwaii archipelago off British Columbia’s northwest coast. The river flows gently under Highway 16,...

Story by Neil Cameron The water wasn’t quite right, it never is. The wind was up and from the south, as usual. It was spring warm, though small pricks of winter reminded that March was not yet done. The Campbell River strolled regally to the ocean while unknown creatures of fin and...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Nick Didlick From high on the bank we can see deep into the water and the plight of the angler wading below is clear. The dark, wavering shapes of two salmon are drifting on a different plane from the Egg Sucking Leech that Julie has cast into the pool....

Story and Photography by Louis Arevalo Thirteen years ago my dad passed away only days before I married Suzanne. It was around this time that I asked her father, Mike Harsha, to teach me to fish. The lessons began slowly. Evenings were tying knots and afternoons were hours of casting. Both...

Story by Mark Hume with Photographs by Mike Sturk As a guide on Alberta’s famed Bow River, John Pease had heard lots of stories about big trout. And he’d caught more than a few himself. “Just releasing a 22 inch, five pound rainbow,” he said, catching his breath when he...

Story by Peter McMullan with Photography by Nick Didlick PITT RIVER LODGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA – It’s still raining. That’s no surprise since the forecast was for up to two inches, par for the course in a long valley through the Coast Range Mountains as the fall deluge starts in...

Story and Photography By Fred Laird It happens every now and then. The astral bodies align, Pisces smiles and all the other deities, apparitions and ethereal entities cooperate so that even a duffer such as myself enjoys a perfect day on the water. Such was the case not long ago. It was a...