The FlyFish Fanatic

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What a GREAT time!!!!!!
I went to Winfield, BC to teach FlyFishing to a bunch of women. What a Blast!! The women had a GREAT time all weekend and, by what I saw, will have a memory that will last them the rest of their lives!!
The location was stunning; it was at the Easter Seals Camp [...]

With the right conditions, Nature herself provides the best and cheapest way of producing Trout, and will produce as many as the food in the river will support.
Dermot Wilson “Fishing the dry fly” (1970)
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This coming weekend, I will be in Winfield, B.C, Canada doing seminars for the BC Wildlife Federations B.O.W. weekend.
This is a great time for all the Women involved as they get to learn all about outdoor activities among other Women. They have the chance to learn about FlyFishing, Hunting, Archery, Outdoor Survival, Canoeing, plus much [...]

Well, up here in Canada we just had our first good long weekend. This is one of the craziest weekends of the year, so I try not to go to far from home and get all caught up in the zoo that the interior of BC can be.
We decided to head up to Blue Lake [...]

If a new man is particularly attentive, he can learn to fly fish in half hour, But then he will go on learning as long as he fishes for Trout
Arthur R Macdougall Jr “Rods & Rods” The trout fishermans bedside book (1963)
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Yesterday, (May 13th/2009) I took a bunch of youth at risk from a local “last chance” school to the Fraser Valley fish hatchery for a day of education and flyfishing on the hatchery’s ponds.
The day started with the kids getting a course from the hatchery staff on regulations and fish ID.

From there, they got to [...]

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing with all the wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
Robert Traver “Trout Madness” (1960)
Rick Passek “The FlyFish Fanatic”™

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