British Columbia Fishing Adventure | Mainely Fly Fishing Blog

I started flying extensively again this summer after a two-year break during the worst of Covid. I am a cutthroat trout afficionado and I was eager to get out west and find some yellow-golden beauties. So excited in fact that I went twice! I traveled to the St. Joe’s River in Idaho during early August and then spent two weeks in British Columbia with my wife, Lindsey, in mid-September.

I captured so much fishing action and beautiful landscapes through photos, video, Go-Pro, and drone footage that I am just getting around to editing and posting the content. I just had my column published in the December issue of the Maine Sportsman in which I wrote about cutthroat trout and directed folks to my blog for further video. Yikes, I hadn’t posted any yet! So here goes a few videos.

Floated the Bow River for one day targeting browns with streamers along with sporadic nymphing and was fortunate enough to tangle with a few big boys. I broke the tip off a flyrod trying to land one of them.

We fished a tributary of the Elk River in Fernie and found large cutthroat trout migrating downstream for the winter. The largest fish grabbed my favorite Cosohammer Streamer.