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,...
Fishing With Sven
posted by Nick Didlick
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...
An electrifying day ...
posted by Nick Didlick
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,...
Bob Hooton’s f...
posted by Nick Didlick
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...
Fly Fishing Only
posted by Nick Didlick
Photography by Nick Didlick The simple sign marking the Fly Fishing 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 use...
The Salmon River Res...
posted by Nick Didlick
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...
Dave’s Dream
posted by Nick Didlick
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...
Jeremy Wade’s ...
posted by Nick Didlick
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...
A range war in the w...
posted by Nick Didlick
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...





