Fishing Spots - Vol. 3




David Leake Photo

 In addition to it's beautiful scenery, Ascension Bay offers other sights you don't run across every day. LIKE THIS!

Hand Feeding Trevally

Saturday Seminar - March 29

Seminar for this Saturday. Should be a great one!

Bull Trout Flies

Lance Chalmers returns to show us a few of his spectacular flies for Bulls.
If you want to learn how to tie really big bugs for Bulls, this is your seminar!

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars.

All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon. There is no charge and no pre-registration required. Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

Fishing Spots-Skeena System Edition

Continuing with photos of beautiful places we have been lucky enough to fish...

The Babine River, tributary to the Skeena, home of some of the world's largest monster steelhead, and one of the most stunning places on earth!

Coming Soon!

Saturday Seminar - March 22

This week's Saturday Seminar. Hope we see you here.

Steelhead Flies

Brent Piche’ ties steelhead flies of all
types as well as anyone we have ever seen.

Brent will tie Intruders, as well as traditionals.

This seminar has been one of our best in the past!

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars.

All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon. There is no charge and no pre-registration required. Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

Fishing Spots

Every once in a while you run across something special in your fishing travels.

The headwaters of Rio Paloma, in Chilean Patagonia might qualify!

Firsties!

Continuing with our extreme "warm fuzzies" when someone we know gets their first Permit...

Congrats to Scott S., with his firstest ever. A fine Northern Belize specimen.

Signs of Spring





Another sure sign of spring. Along with eagles returning, ice melting, rivers opening, the Orvis Waterproof Double Sided Fly Boxes are back! 
They're tough! Slit Foam for convenience! and cheap!





New Stuff from Howler Brothers!

Bow River Fishing Report - March 12

Bow River Report –March 12, 2014

Now that Old Man Winter has released his firm grip a little, a number of people have been getting out on the river. Reports from the last few days have been pretty decent, even with a little dirty water later in the days.

Nymphs are the best choice for success right now but a streamer fished slow and deep will produce as well.

There have been lots of midges on the warm afternoons this week but not much sign of fish eating them.

And be careful of the ice! It’s unstable and can be dangerous.

Hatches: Midges

Streamers: Clouser-Brown/White, Geek Leech-Purple, ¼ Pound Bugger-Olive

Nymphs: G/B Werminator, Wire Worm, Atomic Worm, WMD Stone-Dark,
B/H Prince Nymph

Dry Flies: You can take a few Griffith’s Gnats/Midge dries with you. Not sure you’ll get a chance to use them.

Saturday Seminar - March 15

Seminar for this Saturday morning:

Top Choices For Permit Flies

Mike Gifford will tie, step by step, his three favorite patterns for Permit.

These patterns have proven successful in several locations throughout the Carribean.

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars.All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon.

There is no charge and no pre-registration required.
Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

14!

Kind of an intersting fish story day. In the spring of 2013, Brent Piche accompanied us on one of our shop trips to Palometa Club, in Ascension Bay. This was Brent`s very first trip to the flats. After a week of testing everything out, Bonefish, Tarpon, breaking off Permit, he spent the second last day partnered up with yours truly.

After a completely eventful day filled with two hooked and lost Permit before noon, we found this fish around mid afternoon. All alone, on a flat filled with Rays, this Permit was floating around as pretty as can be. Enough can`t be said of Brent`s patience, he threw at this fish a whole bunch of times over the course of almost an hour. Multiple, rushed fly changes, annoying charges at flies with no grab, and mostly the gradually increasing pestering from two guides and myself didn`t deter him from finally sticking this fish.

Now a first Permit is kind of a big deal. But in this case we used a common measurement formula to determine weight and his first Permit came out to a respectable 14 pounds. In addition to all the other coolness, if you look at the dark markings on the side of the fish, they are the number 14. Cool!

These marks are very random, the best and most reasonable theory I have ever heard is from Dr. Aaron Adams, of Bonefish and Tarpon Trust. he indicates that these dark marks on the side of landed Permit are stress marks caused when a fish is hooked and played. A large percentage of Permit landed have some sort of variation of these marks, but in this case it was a very accurate representation of the fish`s weight.

On it's way and arriving soon from Howler!

A ton of stuff in transit...arriving later this week.

Saturday Seminar - March 8

This week's seminar:

Increasing Efficiency In Your Tying

Jeff Thompson teaches us how to increase productivity and speed while

tying. Jeff is as organized and efficient as any tier we have seen.

This seminar has been hugely popular in the past.

You can also check out Seminar topics at our web site – www.countrypleasures.com – by following the links to Seminars. All seminars start at 10:00 am and will end between 11:00 and noon.There is no charge and no pre-registration required. Simply drop by the shop and enjoy the seminar.

Global Warming!

We know you're probably just as sick of the weather as we are, and likely even more sick of hearing the bitching about it, but this is getting really old!

After the worst of it this past weekend there were several firsts....plugged in the vehicles for the very first time ever in March. Froze a water line in the house for the first time (that was a lot of fun considering pretty much every space heater in southern alberta is sold out and warming up pipes with a hair dryer in a 3 square inch space rocks!) And for the first time ever, there was strong consideration put into not getting out of bed for a 72 hour period.

Anyways, doing something like posting dry fly, flats fishing, or other cool videos is beyond nasty right now.

So, we thought the very best idea right now would be the "Shaw Fire Log". So enjoy!