Pacific Angler Friday Fishing Report February 12th Outlook
It looks like another wet weekend is coming down the pipes. Heavy rain started last night and will ramp up Sunday. The weather man is forecasting over 50mm for both the valley and sea to sky corridor.
Unfortunately this will most likely blow out most rivers but this week we had good reports across the board from the Squamish, Harrison, Stave and Vedder so when the rivers stabilize this trend should continue.
With the warm weather last week we heard more whisperings of salmon fry being spotted wiggling out of the gravel so with this in mind we are going to start reporting on the Harrison and Cutthroat fishing. Early season we tend to stay quiet on this fishery because many of the larger cutthroat are spawning and we don’t want to harass them. The second the fry hatch these big fish will go on the feed. It may still be a little early but it is worth looking at the calendar and booking some time off work to head up cutthroating in the next few weeks. If you are new to this fishery we offer an excellent course put on by our resident Cutthroat addict Andre Stepanian. The course goes over all you need to know to chase these cool anadromous trout and we then take you out on the water to put the skills into practice. The course is on March 9th and we have on water dates for the 12th and 13th of March. Spots are filling up fast. Check out more details on Andre’s Confessions of a Cutthroat Addict section below and in our course section of the report.
Guys at the shop managed to catch a decent number of steelhead last weekend and into the week so check out the Vedder Chilliwack report for more details. On the saltwater scene things were much more consistent with fish being hit in all the usual spots. See Jason’s Saltwater Report below!
We are still promoting February as Warm Water Month at the shop and a bunch of guys turned out this weekend to get their free copy of "Do It Yourself Bonefishing" but we still have copies left. If you missed it in last week’s report when you spend more than 100$ on warm water gear, be it fly tying materials, rods, reels, lines, etc, we will give you a hard copy edition of this great book for FREE!
Continuing the Warm water theme Lars has shared his secret Hawaii Bonefish Fly “Lars’ bonefish Critter”. Almost all great “Guide Flies” are simple and this fly is no exception but read the small write up Lars wrote on the design. The fly may be simple but each material and feature has a purpose and if it is done wrong it doesn’t work as well.
Lars’ Bonefish Critter
CLICK HERE AND GO TO THE FULL REPORT FOR MATERIALS AND A STEP BY STEP OF THE FLY
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