OUTLOOK The first week of 2023 is in the books! It’s been a pretty good start to the year for river fishing. We are hearing positive steelhead reports from the Chilliwack and though the Squamish is back to low and clear conditions, bulltrout fishing over the last 10 days has been good as the water…
OUTLOOK Happy almost New Year everyone! We hope you have all had a great Christmas and enjoyed some time with family and friends. It’s been great to see you all at our Boxing Week Sale this week and if you haven’t been down, you’ve got 2 more days to save! There are still some incredible…
OUTLOOK We hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season! The fishing has been a little challenging with cold weather and we expect this to continue with more cold weather coming this weekend, but the silver lining is we think it will warm up for Boxing Week and there could be some excellent conditions to…
OUTLOOK Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! As we head into the holiday weekend, we hope you all are able to get where you need to be to enjoy some time with your family and friends. Given the weather many folks haven’t been on the water but we take our hats off those that have! …
OUTLOOK Another week of relatively chilly weather has kept many folks off the water but we managed to get out on the saltwater for a few days this past week. So be sure to have a read of this week’s saltwater report! On the freshwater front, we have a look at the upcoming forecast and…
OUTLOOK Winter showed up in a big way this week and we don’t blame anyone for taking a little break from fishing. This week we are doing the same when it comes to specific fisheries reports but we do have an overview on what is happening right now and an outlook for fishing over the…
OUTLOOK This week we are seeing many of the salmon fisheries wind down but, surprisingly, there are still good reports coming in. If you want one last kick at the can, be sure to take a look at this week’s Freshwater Fishing Reports section where we have updates on the Chilliwack and north side systems….
OUTLOOK We are all on weather watch right now. The rivers are very low but seasonally warm daytime temperatures have made for ok fishing. We expect this trend to continue over the weekend. The low clear water makes fish picky, but the warmer temperatures have meant that their metabolisms haven’t shut down and they are…
It’s Friday, Remembrance Day and the store is closed in honour of our armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. If you are going fishing this weekend here is an abbreviated report for fresh and salt. The weather is looking good for fishing this weekend for the fresh and the salt. Highs…
OUTLOOK Winter Is Coming! After a historically warm October, November is going in the other direction. We have had snow on many of the higher elevations and as we write the report. On Thursday, it is snowed in Squamish. On the fishing front, things have been good right across the Lower Mainland fisheries. The late…
OUTLOOK Well that much needed rain has arrived. It looks like we have a bit of a break in between systems today but there is another large system on the way this weekend and into early next week in most areas. The rain we had this week wasn’t enough to make a big difference to…
OUTLOOK We finally have some more typical Vancouver fall weather (aka rain) on the horizon and we can sure use the water. The question is how much water will actually come? Will it be enough to get river levels up? Will it be perfect and blow out the rivers but come into shape quickly? Or,…
OUTLOOK We have sounded like a broken record over the last 4 weeks of our reports. That broken record is still playing – We need rain! When we look at the 14-day trend, temperatures are finally dropping but we have another week until rain is in the forecast on the 22nd and 25th. Though the…
OUTLOOK Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! That said, it certainly doesn’t feel like Thanksgiving when it comes to the weather. We are not complaining about the nice weather but we are getting to the point where the lack of water up the valley is concerning. It is making it hard for salmon to enter our river systems…
OUTLOOK We are in a funny spot when it comes to fishing around the Lower Mainland. The dry fall has extended the fishing in the saltwater as salmon continue to stage around the mouth of the Fraser and Capilano Rivers but, on the flip side, the river anglers are facing the challenges that come with…
OUTLOOK We are now hitting prime time river salmon season on the Chilliwack and a number of the other systems that get salmon are close to kicking off. We are also seeing above seasonal temperatures for September which has made things interesting. We will see some rain in Chilliwack today but, with only 1-3mm in…
We have passed the midway point of September and Fall is in the air here in the Lower Mainland and with that we are enjoying many of our Fall fisheries!
It is a big week! DFO has finally opened sockeye fishing in the ocean! Yesterday was opening day and our guide boats all came back with sockeye. It’s late in the run so fishing isn’t......