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Long and slim, like the natural.

I use many different eyes, this fly uses vinyl tubing flared with a lighter. Heavy green monofilament flared the same way is nice too. For the most part I now use...

Weighted for stillwaters. During fall migration Boatman falls will resemble a rain shower with Boatmen hitting the water with big "plops". The naturals also dive down immediately after hitting the...

Look up Brian Niska and friends at the Whistler Flyshop, good people. He or one of the other guys will be able to steer you in the right direction.

jon

Our snowpack was above average this year, some areas saw close to 150% of normal, we are also about 2-3 weeks "behind" normal as far as water temperatures and run-off. That all said you should be in...

Keep in mind our weather, and therefor hatches are about 2 weeks behind normal this year. Have fun, I've heard it's been pretty good so far out that way!

You should see his rods! :D

Don Anderson, Bamboo rod maker extrodanaire has a good guide to making yarn indicators on his site:

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dmanders/indicators.html

Vic's site (STS guiding) has a handy chart showing when which Salmon are available. It also shows Stealhead, Rainbow and Cutthoat Trout, Dolly Varden and Sturgeon:

http://guidebc.com/salmon.asp
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Tough to beat the Cortland Clear and Clear Camo lines. Some others are as good, but I have yet to cast better.

http://gallery.flybc.ca/albums/album02/LGD_001.jpg

This is the one I use, except I now prefer a more slender dubbed body rather than the D-rib

http://www.gofishbc.com/maxperformance.htm#3N

Agreed, I have spent many a lunch hour in there over the last couple of years. Chris is going to be a tough act to follow if anybody decides to open up a new shop.

Gnu, I think I was in there when...

I've recently switched over to Seaguar Grand Max and couldn't be happier, seems a significant improvement over the brands I used previously. It's much limper, stronger, takes and holds a knot and is...

I've found the location you fish and the retrieve to be far more important than the fly itself for Smallies.

That said, my go-to is a small bucktail with a cone-head:
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Great photos! thanks for posting the link. Always nice to see what's going on over on the Northern front :)

Gave this method a whirl up here on April 1st. The bass either weren't interested or weren't in the area I was trying.

Fortunately there were some nice chunky trout and a big ol' Kokanee willing...

For smaller boats you want a motor with infinately adjustable speeds, like Minn Kota with Maximizer, not only will it let you go as slow as you want, but at those slow speeds you'll get at least 5...

Joe, thank-you for your eye opening reply. A google search of "float 'n fly" produced a full evenings worth of reading/learning.

Funny to find out it's pretty much the same technique as Chironomid...

Any suggestions for fishing Smallmouth Bass in a fairly large lake(12 miles long and a mile or two long) early in the season?

The lake is free-mixed up until late spring until it stratifies with a...

I've recently been switching from S.A. to the Airflo Delta sinking lines, they are extremely supple, don't have much memory at all and come in sink rates up to 8 inches per second (type VIII)

The...

Google to the rescue, a very clear page on the fly and detailed tying instructions:

[url=http://warmwaterflyfisher.com/flymonth/FOTM052002.htm:2c4aa]Click Here[/url:2c4aa]

I'll be tying some up...

The Smallies sure do like the flow up here in BC.

http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Vaseux-2005/Vaseux4.sized.jpg

Tough to beat drifting and casting to agressive fish!

Happens every year up at Tunkwa/Leighton. Usually a fish or two in the air up there at any given time.

Jon

It depends on where you are in Penticton, but the dock at the boat launch by the marina on Skaha or the floatplane dock where the channel dumps into Skaha are both good options, of course you might...

Fresh Chum in the saltchuck are hard to beat for pure fighting ability for sure, a much under rated fish.