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Pulling out of the sheltered bay you can see the boats clustered off Beechey Head, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, on Canada's West Coast.

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Business types collect business cards, fishermen too and the ones I have in mind have nothing to do with business and everything to do with fishing. Off to Ireland!

The Kingfish runs deep, peeling 30 pound mono off so fast I am transfixed by the sight of it. The drum on the Penn reel spits out sea spray......

There is a predictable, orderly sequence of emergence among aquatic insects that is repeated throughout the seasons.

Will Paulik, an environmental activist who played a key role in saving the upper Skagit River, has died of cancer at the age of 76.

The sea is cerulean blue. The sea is green. Light falls on the water through storm clouds turning it as gray as steel.

Winter can be a long, cold, harsh, unforgiving time on Canada’s Pacific Coast, especially in northern coastal valleys where the temperature can dip down to –15 C.

There are no steelhead, there are no cutthroat, there are no rainbow, there are no crappy and there are no damn catfish.

Due North of Montana - A Guide To Flyfishing In Alberta. By Chris Dawson and Trout Streams of Alberta. A Guide To The Best Fly-Fishing. By Jim McLennan

A large Brown trout rests between feedings on a small tributary of the River Test in Hampshire England.

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Volume One,

Issue Eleven,

February 2001

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The Skipper of the Earl Grey Steve Butler with a Kingfish from the Bay of Islands in New Zealand

Photography © Nick Didlick