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He describes lakes and salt water too, but says those bodies of water are so large they're hard  to get to know, while most rivers " are comparatively small, and one feels that it is within the range of the mind to know them intimately. . . And in knowing a river intimately is a very large part of the joy of fly fishing."
This Web Site - An electronic river in the great ocean of the Internet - Is dedicated to those same principles About the producers of A River Never Sleeps This site was "hatched" by the co-founders Mark Hume and Nick Didlick while streamside on a fishing trip nearly two years ago. They met in a Vancouver, B.C. city newsroom in 1989 when they were assigned to cover a long forgotten out-of-town assignment together. Didlick laughs when he remembers asking Hume "Um, you don't happen to fish do you? And you wouldn't mind if we took an extra day and fished a local river would you?". To which Hume replied "Only a day?". Since then they have fished many times and in many places and when the baggage on a trip gets tight they have even been known to share a fly rod! |
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Editor: Mark Hume - editor@ariverneversleeps.com
Mark has been fly fishing for 35 years. He began, at about age One day, on Muir Creek, Vancouver Island, he watched a fly fisherman catch a sea-run cutthroat. For his 16th birthday he got a fly rod, slept overnight in the back of his dad's Ford Falcon, and the next day caught 10 sea-runs over 18 inches. There was no looking back. |
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Web Editor/Photographer: Nick Didlick - webmaster@arivernversleeps.com
He began fly fishing in his early teens after he won a fly rod in a Bar Fishing Derby on the Fraser River, East of Vancouver, B.C and slowly took to fly fishing. Both Mark and Nick worked at the Vancouver Bureau of the National Post when they are not fishing! You can see his photography website www.nickdidlick.com or his Fly Fish Guiding website Fly Fishing Vancouver by clicking on the links. |
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| Glenn Baglo - glenn@ariverneversleeps.com
It was a family vacation that got the mind churning. What would he do in the woods for four days? He'd done salmon fishing - dragging 60 lbs. of flasher and weights behind a boat while pouring beer down his throat to ease the boredom. And besides, there were no salmon in Blue Lake. A $60 kit - 7 piece fly rod, reel, line and case seemed the answer. Tuesday, after the long weekend, he returned to the store, got a credit for the kit-rod and plunked down another $580 for a real rod and reel. The catch of the day. His sign off - "There are no steelhead." - refers to his many trips on the Thompson River. |
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| Harvey Thommasen - harvey@ariverneversleeps.com
"My earliest fishing memory is being five years old, hanging off the end of a dock, fishing for sculpins in Cowichan Lake. My gear consisted of fishing line collected from the beach, tied to small flat rocks serving as weights, and safety pins stolen from my mother's sewing box. The safety pins were baited with earthworms collected from under rotting maple leaves - hours were spent enticing these 'bullheads' to bite my worms. I caught a few trout with this gear and I've been fishing ever since. "My mother tells me that when I was three years old, I wandered off to down-town New Denver, located on the shores of Slocan Lake, and returned home with a can of goldfish I had somehow caught from the town's park pond. I have no recollection of the fish, but I do recall being spanked for wandering off! I guess fishing must be a genetic thing." Harvey learned to flyfish in the alpine lakes located in the mountains above Cowichan Lake, which could only be reached by a long hike. The pay-off: you could see the fish rise through crystal clear water. |
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| Peter McMullan - peter@ariverneversleeps.com
After working as a reporter with the Belfast Telegraph, he emigrated to Canada in 1971 with a young family, and began a long, distinguished career in journalism and public relations. He was drawn back to Ireland in 1996, to work as the International Rugby Board's media and promotions manager, and to renew his acquaintance with Irish brown trout and salmon. When it came time to retire, last year, he chose Nanaimo, on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, where he can fish for cutthroat, rainbows, browns, bass, steelhead and five species of Pacific salmon. He still has the first two split cane rods he fished with in the 1950’s, but says while they are beautifully crafted, they are also heavy beyond belief. “Why do we fish?” says Peter. “No easy answer to that one but I cannot imagine a life without fishing, without the sense of expectation that precedes every day on the water, without the pleasure that derive from convincing a fish, any fish, to come to my fly; without the satisfaction that now derives from seeing that same fish brought to hand and safely released. And always we are out of doors and in beautiful places far removed from the daily routine of work and home.” |
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Van Egan - van@ariverneversleeps.com
Van lives in an old log house about a two minute walk from Haig-Brown House, the family home of his long time fishing companion, and best fried, Roderick Haig-Brown. They met on the river, talked over whiskey about flys and fish - and, who knows, maybe even girls. When Haig-Brown got married, Van stood up for him as best man. He taught biology in Campbell River at the high school level for 27 years, developing an oceanography course that encouraged students to do fisheries research. When he retired 15-years ago, he began to concentrate more on the writing he’d dabbled at over the years. He’s written three books since: Tyee, Waterside Reflections and Rivers On My Mind. Van is currently working on a novel, tentatively titled The Angling Adventures Of Will Fischer, which will develop a short story first published right here at A River Never Sleeps. He’s looking for a good print publisher. |
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Mike Wigle - mikew@ariverneversleeps.com
Mike lives in Bella Coola, B.C. His pictures of insects, which he took to help Harvey in a research project, are a small part of his remarkable nature portfolio. His work on birds is spectacular. Mr. Wigle's pictures can be purchased from him directly, by writing: |
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| Mike Sturk - mike@ariverneversleeps.com
Mike was interested in fishing long before he picked up a camera. He wandered the brooks of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, brandishing an alder pole with the line wrapped around the end, a can full of worms, and a nut or washer for a sinker. Now he carries an expensive fly rod, worries about wind As a boy he started taking pictures of the trout he caught, and that led to a long, distinguished career in photography. Decades later he's still fascinated with fishing - and capturing images of the sport he loves. We're glad he stuck with both pursuits. |
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Harvey is a medical doctor who lives in Houston, B.C., where the lakes offer some of the best trout fishing in the world and the rivers have the planet's greatest runs of wild steelhead. Hardly seems fair, does it? 
Peter McMullan, a global traveler, has been fly fishing for more than 40 years. Born in Northern Ireland, where he got hooked on fishing by chasing mackerel off the rocks at Carrickfergus and Bangor, Peter came to the West Coast of Canada in 1953 - and never forgot the water he’d seen.
Van Egan sits at his writing desk, looking out a plate glass window at the Campbell River flowing below his property, and says: “Sure, you can look down there and see the salmon swimming up sometimes.”
Mike Sturk is a freelance photographer based in Calgary, Alberta. After working for 20 years shooting for weekly and daily newspapers, he recently became his own boss -- apparently because this allows him to build his work schedule around the hatch chart.
