Fred and the boys from Hooké have posted a wonderful wrap-up video from the second season of their Canadian TV show, and it features some spectacular scenery and ridiculously nice fish: . . .
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Top 10 Flies for Western Canada and the Rockies
Written by: Dave Brown, Dave Brown Outfitters
The big browns of Alberta love a bushy dry fly drifted along the bank.
Photo by Dave Brown
Once our guide season rolls around, we tend to cover a lot of rivers in both Alberta and British Columbia. The character of these streams varies from fast-moving alpine freestones, such. . .
Read MoreAngling Art: New Works by Galen Mercer
“On a Flood Tide, Restigouche,” Oil on Canvas, 24″ X 36″, 2016
All paintings by Galen Mercer
Artist Galen Mercer lives along the Battenkill in West Arlington, Vermont. Canadian by birth, he’s the grandson of two painters and the son of another, so it’s kind of in his blood. (He’s also . . .
Read MoreVideo: A Grand Tour of Quebec Fly Fishing
Video: Bull-Trout Heaven on Earth
Here’s a cool video from Alberta-based Backcountry Poolz featuring some incredible bull-trout fishing in the wilderness of western Canada. (I’m not sure if this is Alberta or British . . .
Read MoreAngling Art: “In The Tail Of The Pool, Gaspé,” by Galen Mercer
“In The Tail Of The Pool, Gaspé,” Oil on Canvas, 22″ X 29″, 2015
by Galen Mercer
Artist Galen Mercer lives along the Battenkill in West Arlington, Vermont. Canadian by birth, he’s the grandson of two painters and the son of another, so it’s kind of in his blood. (He’s also. . .
Read MoreVideo: Chasing Big Muskies in “The Pursuit”
Check out this great trailer for a film from Vantage Point Media House called “The Pursuit,” about chasing big muskies with fly rods in Canada. This group of anglers seems to have bonded. . .
Read MoreVideo: Small-Stream Landlocked Salmon
Sometime, I run across a video that has few of the attributes I look for—high production values, huge fish, exotic locations—but still manages to hold my attention through sheer charm. This. . .
Read MoreVideo: A 25-Pound Atlantic Salmon on a Dry Fly
This is a pretty crappy video, quality-wise, but it captures something pretty awesome: an woman casts a dry fly on New Brunswick’s Restigouche River, but the fish refuses it. So she ties on. . .
Read MoreVideo: Find Your Water 6—”Fly Fishing Eh?”
The season finale of the “Find Your Water” series follows Canadian couple Amber and Brendan Toner as they chase big trout and monster pike. This is clearly a relationship in which fly. . .
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