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At what kind of depth range did you find this colour to be effective. I tend to hang blobs on a sunk line in 30-40 feet and a brighter orange seems to be best for me. Just curious.

Use your sounder to find the travelling area and park your boat on top of them. Hang two type 7 or type 8's over the side and hang on. Actively work your lines as the upward movement of your bugs tends to illicit plenty of action. The alternate is to just have one hung rod and an indicator on...

1-I am picky about what I tie on the end of my line and store bought flies don't make the grade.(cheap hooks) 2-If there is a hot fly the store/resort runs out so you can't get any until they are no longer hot anyways 3-When you tie your own you can always come up with something close to "the...

Use premium high octane gas with no ethanol. I run 93 octane. Do your spring maintenance with new plugs and filters and oil change. I have a 20hp 4stroke Honda. It always starts easily and runs smoothly. I have no toolkit whatsoever in my boat and have no plans of putting a toolkit in my...

Seems like you Mariner fans got it wrong!

Many people who died from covid got infected by an unvaxed. Murder, manslaughter, negligence, natural selection, or just bad luck, apparently it is in the eyes of the beholder.

These recently introduced, putrid pests, are currently wiping out the summer/fall chironomid population on my favourite lake. It looks like this will be the last year with a summer chironomid hatch. I thought bass were bad, these effing things are far worse. Not a fan of any "warmwater"...

One of the BC lakes I fish alot is notorious for jumpers. I use micro barbs on my chironomids and my landing % is generally higher than the guys I fish with who fish barbless all the time. Many fish are one jump wonders on barbless hooks.

small deer hair bucktail fly, coho, big qualicum river

There are 4 grades of trout that can be determined by eyeballing them and keeping them wet, tiddlers ( under 14 inches), decent(14-17inches), nice( 18-22 inches), really nice 23+. Your take on the parameters of the 4 grades is likely different than mine but does it matter if a released fish is...

The rusty years

As a mostly converted lake guy I find lake fishing much more laid back. Their is no need to get up 2 hours before daylight to get the boat launched first while getting the pullout truck repositioned. You don't need to worry about the parade of boats or the colour of the water or the volume of...

Just use some of your old steelhead crap. Instead of the swivel rig just keep the surgical tubing bare and hook your fly into the tubing. Works like a charm, cheap, easy, foolproof, won't break the bank if you lose it.

My Stonfo works just like you describe. I imagine most of the rotary vices function the same way.

I tied rotary style, on a Renzetti apprentice for a number of years, and it worked fine for an entry level vice. I wanted to upgrade and got my hands on Peak, Renzetti and Stonfo rotary vices. I liked the stonfo the best so that is the one I chose but it was pricier. It holds the hook really...

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of excellent youtube videos on the various makes and models of fishfinders/sounders/graphs/chartplotters. All makes and models are better than floating around just watching for some birds to help you out. There is a lot going on in 15 feet and deeper that is...

I have switched over from the berkley quick set to the scotty R'5s. The only thing I don't like about them is the line rubs against the holder when a fish takes line. I had the same issue with my Berkleys. So far I have only been catching low grade Fraser Valley domestics here on the island...

Yeah, but now that you crossed the border did you move to the dark side and slip on a swivel?

Poor mans cable loops.