2012 'On The Fly' Day Planner

$2 of every sale of this year's Planner in BC goes towards the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and for every sale outside BC, $2 goes to Trout Unlimited.

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Editorial

Swim for the Salmon

To fish is a privilege that should be understood by all who decide to hold a pole.

I grew up on the Sunshine Coast and have had a fishing pole close at hand for as long as I can remember. Today, I would consider myself lucky to catch one salmon in an entire day spent on the water. When I was a young boy, twenty years ago, I would expect to catch at least two. My Opa would tell me stories of times before I was born when it was not a question of if you would catch a fish in a day, but how long it would take you to fill the boat. I can only imagine the stories my Opa’s Opa would have shared with him had he grown up fishing this same area.

Fish Tales!

Summer Chinook Fishing – A Beginners Progress in Sooke B.C.

I bought my first ever recreational fishing boat in June of 2010. This was the culmination of a dream I had had since coming to Canada from the U.K., almost 30 years before.  I could now go salmon fishing whenever I liked!! There was just one problem. I was virtually a beginner at ocean fishing from a boat – hell, I had not even driven my own boat before. And so the saga of fishing for the elusive summer Chinook began, but first a bit of history.