I have had numerous emails, facebook messages, and messages in general asking about the trailing hook method I designed and starting using 2 years ago now. The following is a step by step on how to rig up a spoon using this method (I have now also created a commonly asked question follow up on… Read More The Trailing Hook Method
This is perhaps the part of my season that I’ve been the most eager to write about. There’s something about cutthroat trout that make me happy, and I find myself reverting back to them more and more each passing season. Many people don’t know this about me: when I started fishing, I rarely used anything… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part XII – Cutthroat Chronicle II
I left off with my last blog on a great weekend of fishing. After that weekend ended, the rains kicked in pretty good. After a day of the rain stopping, I finally had a window to get out. My flow of choice was one that I had visited earlier in the year without any form… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part XI – A Long Wait
I was right that Kitty would want to go back. The weather was looking fantastic (a rain bump was coming for the weekend), and I knew there were fish around, so when Kitty wanted to go back to Marc’s, I happily obliged. I quickly put together our game plan. My first choice was to take… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part X – Deja Vu
At the end of the last blog, I had mentioned that I had been meaning to visit Marc for a while. Typically, Kitty and I almost always find our way to his place for a weekend trip by the beginning of January. This year, December and January were dominated by exceptionally high water, followed almost… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part IX – Road Trip
After observing quite a few cutthroat on my way home from steelhead fishing the past few trips out, I figured it was nearing peak run time. Being that their residency time in the river is rather short for the chosen area, now was as good a time as any for us to dedicate an entire… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part VIII – Cutthroat Chronicle I
I mentioned in my previous blog that we had an incredible rain event, and that I was guessing a bunch of my favourite locations would be drastically changed. Well, the flood waters were finally subduing, so Kitty and I decided to head out to a couple of steelhead flows to hopefully see what changes occurred.… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part VII – Relearning
Despite our recent successes on rivers we know well lately, there’s always this nagging thought in the back of my head to go out and find new places. I’m not entirely sure why I can’t be content with the 50 or more steelhead flows I already know on the island – especially since I rarely… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part VI – A Never Ending Adventure
After my last successful outing, I felt like I had a fairly good idea of where fish were going to be for the weekend with Kitty. We got out bright and early on Saturday to the first creek to find it quite busy, more busy in fact than I’ve ever seen it. The water was… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part V – An Extended Weekend
Did I mention in previous posts it’s been raining? Have I mentioned it just won’t stop? It’s been raining for nearly 2 weeks straight at this point, and pretty much every river is high. We’re not talking “just high,” I’m talking that most of my favourites for early season are un-fish-able, trying to break over… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part IV – High Water Hiding
After Christmas, Kitty and I decided it was time to finally get out and try for a few steelhead on the last day of 2019. We decided on a river that normally gets a fairly decent early push, and headed out. We arrive at the first run of the day, and I sighted a steelhead… Read More Catalogue and Conquer – Part III – Losing Spree
