Blog Entries tagged 'fishing'

Fly Fishing in Fernie

editor@westernsportsman.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Do you want to know why the Elk River and its tributaries are such a wonderful place to fly fish?

Does this answer your question:

http://www.youtube.com/daveytrain6969#p/a/u/2/6wBfja1g9KE

Dreaming of Fernie

editor@westernsportsman.com — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Have you fly fished the Wigwam River in Fernie, BC?

No?

You're missing out - big time.

I just returned from a trip there this week, and I am blown away by the quality of this fishery. Huge bull trout and fiesty westslope cutthroat trout all in a gorgeous, easily accesible location? Can't be beaten!

Sure, the Classified Waters licence is pricey for non-BC residents, and whether or not you agree with this system, I can tell you that $20 per day, or $15 per year f [...]

Big Fish on the Fraser River

editor@westernsportsman.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Wow! If you've never gone sturgeon fishing on the Fraser River, you are missing out!

I've been three times now, and it never gets old. It is a truly unique fishery and a unique experience to battle, land, study and photograph these amazing creatures.

Some of these fish are more than 100 years old, and have been caught at lengths of 11 feet or more. Even more interesting is that these fish are relatively unchanged in 650 million years. Literally, dinosaurs.

I, along [...]

News of the Day

editor@westernsportsman.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0100

A fairly interesting news day today - and no, I'm not talking about that Obama vs. the Cambridge police thing...

I read today that Canada, more specifically Great Slave Lake, may be home to a entirely unique species of cisco - just discovered the other day. They've dubbed it Coregonus googelii - the "googely eyed cisco."

The fish was caught in Great Slave Lake last fall, and is now under seririous scrutiny while biologists attempt to determine if this is a newly [...]

Provincial Hunting & Fishing Regulations

editor@westernsportsman.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0100

This website is your one-stop shop! Get the latest news from this blog, and visit our Provincial Hunting & Fishing Regulations page (on the left-hand-side, Main Menu) and you can immediately download your province's regs!

BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba!

Good luck out there...!

Want to Go Salmon Fishing?

editor@westernsportsman.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

We all want to go salmon fishing! Especially this year, when you can't keep them out of your boat.

How does HALF PRICE salmon fishing sound?

BC Outdoors magazine, our brother publication out on the coast, is holding a fishing derby at Shearwater Resort & Marina on July 17-20. And they have a limited number of spots left over -- available at 50% off.

Interested? E-mail Mike Mitchell, editor of BC Outdoors magazine at: editor@bcoutdoorsmagazine.com or phone him [...]

West Coast Salmon

editor@westernsportsman.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Holy cow! Time to head out West! From all reports the salmon fishing is going gangbusters.

"Fish Tales" columnist Wayne Norstrom just phoned me up before his trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands. Apparently there are some good amounts of chinook to be caught - but they're darn near impossible to get to because of all the coho! ot a bad problem to have. (In terms of BBQ fare, I'll take a six-pound coho over a tyee any day... but who am I kidding, I go West for the [...]

Alberta Walleye Draw

editor@westernsportsman.com — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +0100

This press release just came down the wire from the Alberta Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development:

Special Walleye Licence program expands to other lakes
2009 regulations also create other angling opportunities
Edmonton... Alberta anglers will have new fishing opportunities this year thanks to the expansion of the Special Walleye Licence program to Floatingstone and Kehiwin lakes, both near Bonnyville. There are also new or improved fishing opportun [...]

Western Canada's Recession

editor@westernsportsman.com — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Don't close the window! This is not another doom and gloom report, believe me, I'm just as sick of them as you are.

No - this is about how lucky we are to have recession-proof hobbies.

What am I talking about? Well, imagine for a moment that during this economic downturn, your hobby was sailing. You might be in trouble - at the very least, there's a good chance your significant other might not classify a $50,000 sloop as a "necessity."

But [...]

Ice Fishing?

editor@westernsportsman.com — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

The ice is a bit too thin today, but it won't be long before the devoted few are dragging out the augers and short rods. Especially if the trend predicted by The Weather Network (for Edmonton, anyway), stays true. Minus 15 tomorrow... oh boy.

Who out there ice fishes? Before I moved to Edmonton, I was under the impression everybody east of the Okanagan was a die-hard ice angler. But now I see they are more few and far between than I thought.

For me, it was a novelt [...]

Arctic Adventure

editor@westernsportsman.com — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

The Wild West frontier might be a thing of the past, but there is a frontier alive and well in this country -- the North.

Last summer had the opportunity to travel to the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, with Plummer's Lodge, on a fly fishing trip for lake trout, Arctic grayling and Arctic char.

Let me tell you -- I thought I knew what "wilderness" was, but until I stood on the banks of the Tree River in Nunavut, 700 km north of Yellowknife, I had no idea. You can [...]

Fraser River Sturgeon!

editor@westernsportsman.com — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100

The staff of Western Sportsman and BC Outdoors magazine met up last week on the Fraser River, near Mission, BC, for a day of sturgeon fishing -- and what a day!

Anyone who hasn't fished for these brutes has to try. Our biggest of the day was 63 inches long; a fish nearly 70 years of age. And that is about half as big and half as old as they get.

These fish are truly amazing: a strictly managed catch-and-release fishery, white sturgeon are North America's largest fre [...]

Who Is Gail Shea?

editor@westernsportsman.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100

The federal cabinet was announced, including a new Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Prince Edward Island MP Gail Shea.

And the entire province of British Columbia, home of Canada's largest coastline, rolls their eyes.

I, for one, am going to give Shea the benefit of the doubt -- but really, I am sick of the East telling the West how things should be done. Especially in regards to the fisheries.

One of Shea's opening remarks after being appointed was "We have a [...]

Bear Defence

editor@westernsportsman.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0100

How can we protect ourselves in the woods?

Every year it happens — a rampaging bear takes another fellow outdoorsman. And every time, it gives me the heebie-jeebies. An instructor at a bear safety course once told me that if the average person knew how many times he has walked past a bear without knowing it, he’d never set foot in the woods again.
Hunters aren’t your average people — we usually are keenly aware of the wildlife in our vicinity. In fact, som [...]

Rivers Inlet - Home of the Hawgs

editor@westernsportsman.com — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Well, I just returned from Rivers Inlet, BC, and Oak Bay Marine Group 's King Salmon Resort.

What a trip.

For anyone who is into big game hunting with a rod and reel, there's no better place than Rivers Inlet. During my five-day stay, six chinook over 40 pounds were brought into the lodge. It seemed like every chinook that bit was a tyee!

According to DFO officers on the water in Rivers Inlet, there had been five fish in the 70-pound range caught this year! And belie [...]

Fish Tales, 21st Century Style

editor@westernsportsman.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Fish tales. If you fish, you've told one — end of story. Sure, I know guys who claim they haven't, but I will tell you for sure, when it comes time to describe the size of that "monster" rainbow trout no one saw him release, his measurements get bigger and bigger as the campfire gets lower and lower. But nowadays, fish tales needn't wait for the campfire. You can tell them to the whole world, if you're so inclined. Want to see what I mean? Click on the link be [...]

Bass: A Four Letter Word

editor@westernsportsman.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100

What is the problem with bass fishing?

I pose this question not so much to those readers living in Ontario, or the eastern edge of Manitoba, but for the British Columbians, Albertans, and Saskatchewanites.

It seems many anglers have nothing but unkind words for bass and the anglers who pursue them. This is especially true in BC -- where, ironically, the best bass fishery in Western Canada can be found (Kootenays, Okanagan and Vancouver Island).

I have some theories on this. [...]