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On most stillwaters, the 'hard water season' has begun.
We look back on our season, mostly with regret that we didn't get out more and didn't manage to hit 'that one lake we heard about'.

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It's coming.
Ice over, that is.
Mid to late October in the Cariboo, when stillwaters are continuing to cool down, daytime temperatures are a few degrees above freezing and the weather is rainy, blustery, interspersed with some calm, cold days. A time for the obsessed fly fisher to get in the last few day trips before 'The End'.
Homewaters: fall sight fishing
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By Jack Simpson
Get out there, now! If you want to experience the very best stillwater trout fishing of the year, do it now. After a incredibly hot summer, which heated most waters to temperatures that drove trout to the bottoms of all the lakes for half of July and all of August, the waters are finally cooling to the point that fish are again comfortable feeding near the surface. They are now feeding ravenously on and in close proximity of the shoals. Trout are primarily 'looking down' for nymphs and scuds, near the marl shoals and over the charo weed in depths of 6 to 10 feet.
(Photo: Cruiser)
Home Waters: Boatman
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By Jack Simpson
The fall equivalent of a 'Traveling Sedge Hatch', is one of the most productive times for a fly fisher to be on stillwaters. A time when trout actually slam their prey with surprising force. There is no 'setting the hook', you know you have a fish on!
(Photo: Water Boatman)
Early fall stillwaters
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By Jack Simpson
Summer stillwater fly fishing is coming to a close, with the onset of much cooler nighttime temperatures and the cooler, damp weather of the past few days. Water surface temperatures at 3000 ft elevation has finally dipped below 70F. Within the next week, the rainbow trout will be rising from the cooler depths at 18-20 ft to again feed on or near the surface.
Salmon river strategies
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By Jack Simpson
If one can understand the hydraulics of a salmon migration river as well as envision the task of swimming up a river, against some very strong current, then it is a relatively simple matter to deduce where in a river the salmon SHOULD be.
What do I need for fishing in Bella Coola?
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By Jack Simpson
'What do I need for fishing in Bella Coola' is an annual fly fishing question. There is a slight difference this year, though, as Pink Salmon in the Bella Coola and Atnarko Rivers are closed for retention, due to the floods of the previous years that virtually wiped out the run reproduction.
















