Recently, I saw an angler gutting a Steelhead and throwing the eggs back into the river. Either he had mountains of roe in his freezer at home, or he wasn’t really aware at how valuable steelhead eggs are, or he just didn’t know how easy it was to cure the eggs. Cured steelhead eggs are [...]
The day started with my alarm beeping way to early to get out of bed, but I got up loaded the pontoon boat into the truck and headed to the river. I still felt sickingly full from yesterdays turkey dinner with the in laws. Yesterday, I made an absolutely beautiful jig, it was full and had [...]
There are only two more days until Christmas! I spent all day shopping and waiting in line, which is practically the opposite of fishing. Anyhow, I am taking my Christmas break from fishing, so I have been working on organizing my gear. One of the things that I do when I have time is making [...]
I had taken a couple days off from steelheading to get my gear organized and take care of business. However, today I loaded up the pontoon boat and headed to the river. After a short drift down the river, I got to one of my favourite spots and I think it was the 3rd cast, and a nice chrome [...]
I like my gear to be simple and efficient,so if the knot is easy and holds well, I go with that. Same thing with floats and lead set-ups. My theory is, more time spent fishing, and less time tieing up gear the better. I like to be prepared before I head out to the river [...]
The water level has come up about a foot, and the clarity is a dirty green. Almost all the snow is gone from the banks. The fishing is good with most anglers catching fish. Today we fished the river pretty hard. We were able to catch the same Steelhead, with in a hour of each other! [...]
There are at least 6 of my 10lb canon balls at the bottom of the ocean. I have probably lost a total of 10 rolls of lead in the Stamp River. Not to mention all the other rivers/lakes and creeks I fish. A study was done by the Canadian Government on the use and effects [...]
The Puntledge River is a beautiful meandering river that snakes its way through Courtenay, on Vancouver Island. It’s a very short river from the hatchery to the ocean, but an extremely popular river to those that use it. There are two freshwater marinas on the river, as well as a float plane dock, three bridges [...]
Snow… all over the roads, made it really hard to get into the river. I only had an hour or so to fish, so I went straight to work and about 30 minutes in, my lure got hammered!! Landed a really nice 15lb hatchery buck! Made for a great day. Normally, I pontoon the river [...]
Great news for all you Stamp River steelheaders: I left them all in the river today! I fished from about noon to 3:30, and I got 1 trout and 1 summer (which I released down stream :s), although I did touch a few fish. I witnessed a few fish caught and released by other anglers. [...]
Fly Fishing the Cowichan River for Steelhead and Trout. ~ RamblingFisherman.com
Cowichan River Steelhead ~ BC Steelheading ~ RamblingFisherman.com
Port Hardy Fishing - Great Salmon/Halibut/Snapper Action!
34lb Chinook Caught off Nanaimo,BC - May 26,2012 - RamblingFisherman.com
Nice Steelhead Caught In the Gold River
New Cowichan Steelheading Video ~ Must See!
Fishing was good today, and one of the fish was an acrobatic, cart wheeling, chrome 8lb doe that I happened to get on video. Here is a video of that doe we caught today, this is a must see: (When viewing enlarge to full screen)
Rescuing a Bald Eagle on the Cowichan River
During today’s drift down the Cowichan river we came across an injured Bald Eagle on the beach. Guide Peter Dick managed to capture it and we called Pacific Northwest Raptors to come and meet us at the bottom of the river. The Eagle was totally calm while being held and transported, which surprised all of [...]
According to the Minister of Natural Resources, I’m a ‘Radical’?! – Enbridge Pipeline.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have most likely heard about Enbridge’s proposed pipeline that may be built from the Alberta tar sands to Kitimat BC, so that the oil and gas can be shipped to Eastern world markets. I oppose this pipeline, as it will introduce an immense risk to the habitat [...]
Top 5 Offshore Fiberglass Sport Fishing Boats
Fishing offshore of the West Coast of Vancouver Island requires a boat that will troll all day 20 miles from shore in safety and comfort then be able to get you home quickly when the weather starts to blow. So today I’m going to give you my list of the Top 5 single engine offshore fiberglass fishing [...]
Basic Centerpin Casting – How to Cast a Centerpin Rod and Reel
I use three basic casting techniques when casting a centerpin rod and reel. – The common cast, where you just pull the rod as far back as you can and then swing and free spool the pin reel. This is very similar to level wind casting. The cast needs no instruction as this is the most [...]
The best Halibut recipe I have ever tasted! – Breaded Halibut Recipe and Tartar Sauce Recipe
Here is our favourite Halibut recipe, which has to be eaten with homemade Tartar Sauce: Breaded Halibut Recipe: 1 1/2LBs of Halibut 1/2 Cup of Flour 2 TSP Dry Mustard 1 Egg Beaten 1/4 Cup of Cornflake Crumbs 1 TBSP Coconut Oil or Vegetable Oil Subscribe to The Rambling Fisherman by Email Cut fish into [...]
Candied Smoked Salmon and Candied Salmon Jerky – Port Alberni Sockeye.
I’ll post our recipe up later, in the mean time here’s how we make Candied Smoked Sockeye ^^ If you like this post become a Facebook fan to get notifications.
Angler Goes Over The Stamp River Falls… Locals are HEROES.
A Burnaby angler was trying to float from the falls pool to the gun club. Apparently he got the launch information from a friend, but obviously it turned out to be bad information. He launched his pontoon boat at the falls provincial park, which is directly above the Stamp River falls. The falls is higher [...]
Kitimat 2009 – Epic Coho Fishing
Every summer I try to convince my father in-law to go back up to his home waters in Kitimat to fish for those huge, exciting Coho and every summer it never pans out. This year was different, I had an open invitation to fish with an extremely experienced fisherman and guide in Kitimat. I certainly [...]
