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Photos: A Father-Son Fishing Adventure in Manitoba

May 29, 2015

Written by: Stu Thompson

I’d be all smiles, too, if I’d landed a fat brownie like that!
Photo by Kevin Thompson

My son, Kevin, and I got out one long weekend in May for our yearly father-and son-fishing trip. We went up to Duck Mountain Provincial Park and had some really good fishing, even though. . .

Video: Fly Baitin’ a Big Brown Trout

May 27, 2015

Regular blog readers are certainly familiar with Dave and Amelia Jensen, who have been entertaining us for years with their photos, videos, and stories from New Zealand and. . .

Video: Big Ouananiche! from Hooké

May 18, 2015

When we were hanging out in Montana last month, Fred Campbell of Hooké told me about the cool trip he was planning to the Laurentides region of Quebec to catch ouananiche, or. . .

Amazing Archival Footage of Early-1900s Steelheading

April 22, 2015

Here is some very cool footage from the 1920s(?) of anglers steelheading on Canada’s Vancouver Island. Brigadier General Noel Money fishes the Stamp River with traditional Spey gear, and it. . .

Win a Trip to One of Canada’s Great Fly-Fishing Destinations

March 18, 2015

Our friends at The New Fly Fisher have launched a great contest, in which the winner gets a five-day trip to fly fish at one of nine lodges in the Algoma region of Ontario, Canada. Sounds. . .

Video: One More Time Around

January 14, 2015

Here’s a nice little montage of the great fishing opportunities on Prince George, British Columbia—in the middle of the province. It looks like the kind of place where an angler could get lost in. . .

Video: Salmon, Char, and Bears in Northern Quebec

January 13, 2015

This is an advertisement for a lodge in far northern Quebec, but like everything that the folks from Fokus/Hooké do, it’s a gorgeous piece of filmmaking, with drop-dead scenery, some. . .

Video: Hank Patterson is. . .Sensei (Trailer)

December 18, 2014

In the highly anticipated film “Sensei”, Fly Fusion’s steelhead editor, April Vokey, teaches fly-fishing sensation, Hank Patterson, how to Spey cast for steelhead. Hank is a “quick study” and it’s. . .

Video: Hooké’s No Man’s Land (Trailer)

December 17, 2014

Whenever we post videos, we suggest that you watch them at full screen and in HD, but I’m not sure we’ve ever featured a video that demands such a viewing the way this one does. This trailer for an upcoming Hooké production about an astonishing trip to the Ungava Peninsula in. . .

Video: Steelhead, Pickles, and Big Hair

November 24, 2014

Here’s a two-minute trailer for an upcoming film about Spey-fishing for steelhead in British Columbia from the one and only Captain Quinn, whose work we have been featuring since way back in. . .