Category Archives: CANADA
Memories from Haida Gwaii
Thought I’d throw a little Monday morning photographic love your way and share some images from paradise. See, it’s February now, and in the Pacific Northwest that means the best steelhead of the year are about to arrive—native winter slabs … Continue reading
The Aces of Spey
In the early-2000s I was engaged to an Oregon girl who’s father was a rabid Northwest flyfisher. Appealingly, he owned a cabin on British Columbia’s Kispiox River and showed me photos of several 30-pound steelhead he’d caught there. When I … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Gear, George Cook, Northwest, Spey
Tagged Andrew Bennett, George Cook, Spey rods
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Chasing Mr. Big. A British Columbia Mule Deer Hunt
Just got back from, as it’s provincial license plate states, beautiful British Columbia. I left Missoula on the 2nd and returned on the 8th, the time between spent cruising the icy logging roads and climbing insanely steep ridges. The area … Continue reading
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Mule Deer in British Columbia’s south Chilcotin Mountains
I’ve spent too much time in the field this fall and not enough on the water. Some of that is because I’ve been being a good father, some of it’s related to hosting friends and family, and some of it … Continue reading
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Skate ‘dat Fly. Feel the Thrill.
Let’s say you’ve just been through a few days of bliss, banging up steelhead on light sinktips and whatever your delivery of choice is—Fall Favorite, sunken Muddler, Pick ‘yer Pocket… And now, all of a sudden you’ve got skating in … Continue reading
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Canada Media Market and Street Food at 3 a.m.
Burning up Manhattan There’s been an absence of new posts for a few days and I’m sure you may have wondered why. The answer is I was in New York at an event called Canada Media Market, rubbing shoulders with the … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Cocktails, Industry, Travel
Tagged Canada Media Market, Manhattan, New York
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International Sportsman’s Expo—Thomas and Vokey on Steelhead
Angler’s Tonic and April Vokey in Sacramento. Wanted all to know that I’m headed for Sacramento and the International Sportsmen’s Exhibition, teaming up with April Vokey to give anglers all they want to know about western steelhead. In addition, I’ll … Continue reading
Road Tunes: The Tradgically Hip
Canada’s Glory Child I got into the Tragically Hip in the 1990s when I drove from Missoula to Seattle on spring break and my buddy, Torrey, and I must have listed to Blowing High Dough about a hundred times. We … Continue reading
Now Time! Steelhead on British Columbia’s Dean River
Living the dream, Dean River style A few years ago I went to Russia for Atlantic salmon and watched a partner rip up the river while I barely landed a fish to every two or three of his. Then I … Continue reading
Posted in British Columbia, CANADA, Northwest, Spey, Steelhead, Travel, US & Canada
Tagged Andrew Bennett, BC West, British Columbia, Dean River, Steelhead
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Dean River British Columbia, Day 3
A windfall of metal… and Whitey does the big two-four So I’m stading in a run called Totem and we’ve just hammered some fish out of it, to the tune of four hookups in one pass. And I’m thinking, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Bennett, B.C. West, Dean River
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