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
Most of the people that follow me these days know me as a spoon junky, but that wasn’t the case when I first started fishing some 12 odd years ago. It might be surprising to most people, but back in my beginnings, I reached for a fly rod every time I went out the door.… Read More Exploring my Roots
While the other two rivers mentioned in my previous blog post were completely new to me (Catalogue and Conquer – A Double Discovery), as said in the intro to this series, another goal of mine was to figure out rivers that I had been to in the past and wanted to know more about. This… Read More An Old Friend
Tight Water – Part I Soon after my trout fisheries dried up, I was all in on steelhead. As said in the leading blog post of this series, this year, would be different from last. Rather than focus on a shot gun approach to fishing as many rivers as I could (check out the Quest… Read More A Double Discovery
It’s been three years now since I originally wrote “The Trailing Hook Method.” Through this time period, I’ve had numerous questions relating to the method, and if any variations to my step by step are available. In this next segment, I’ll go through the most commonly asked questions I’ve had, and give the answer that… Read More The Trailing Hook Method – FAQ
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog post, so I figured it’d be enjoyable to write about the last summer steelhead trip I made; the one trip that dictated what the rest of my summer would hold. It was our first year anniversary. Kitty and I decided that we would go back… Read More Monsters and Misfortune
The 2017 steelhead season was incredible! Kitty and I had both set out goals to complete in order to make the fishing this season more interesting. We decided that we would have from December 15th until the end of April allotted to complete our “Quests.” Many ups and downs were experienced, and often times, we feared… Read More Quest for 20 – Part XX – Recounting the Past
After returning from the mainland, our main goal was to get Kitty her 10th and final river of the year. We ended up making a number of trips, three actually, that all resulted in either lost fish or complete skunkings. As the spring advanced well into April, things were starting to look rather bleak. There… Read More Quest for 20 – Part XIX – Kitty’s Completion
Not long after our last trip (check it out here: Quest for 20 – Part XVII – A Challenging Day), Mike, Marc, another Mike, and I had plans to go to the lower mainland and watch a Vancouver Canucks game (Marc got free tickets). We decided to turn it into a fishing trip, spending a… Read More Quest for 20 – Part XVIII – A Suitable Finish
Although we had held out hope that this particular river would hold its height after watching the last river of the day yesterday rise rapidly, it didn’t help us (Quest for 20 – Part XVI – The Late Runs). We arrived early morning after we had told Kitty of how awesome this river was the… Read More Quest for 20 – Part XVII – A Challenging Day
It was now time for one last trip, after the last successful outings had indicated to us that the spring run steelhead had most definitely started moving in (Quest for 20 – Part XV – The Rains). The season is in the process of closing out, and I’m oh so close. Over the years we’ve… Read More Quest for 20 – Part XVI – The Late Runs
