With the Otter Seaplane down Labrador Air Safaris brought in a 1954 De Havilland Beaver to fly us to McKenzie River Fly Fishing Lodge. I was comfy with our replacement plane being that I lived off a Beaver much of June on the Selwyn Lake pike trip. Unfortunately with the smaller plane not all of … Read more
I’m sorry to say we didn’t make it to McKenzie River Lodge and we are right back in the same hotel we were at last night in rainy Labrador City. Things were looking good. We went to the airport to meet Paul Ostiguy arriving from Sept Ilse. But on one short flight – Air Canada lost his … Read more
I vividly remember sitting in dads lap back in the late 60’s and early 70’s on Saturday afternoons watching sports. The minute The Wide World of Sports was over, on came The American Sportsman with Curt Gowdy. My absolute most memorable episode was when Curt had Lee Wulff as his guest and Lee guided Curt … Read more
It’s a specialty of mine getting folks to fish for more than salmonids. Here in trout filled Idaho we have excellent fly fishing for carp but the challenge is getting people to do it. Even one of my business partners in Fish and Game Art Gifts, Harvey Cohen, who sees my carp mugs sell like crazy, … Read more
I’ve never seen more than one other boat on Maddon Creek but today we saw five. Float fishing is more popular than Rock “n” Roll these days and when the water is small, five boats competing with each other makes for a very slow day of fishing. Luckily, on ladies day the catching isn’t that … Read more
It’s good to be home trout fishing again, and today was especially good to be trout fishing on one of my favorite lakes, Island Park Reservoir. Best of all, I was with my buddy and lake fly fishing expert, Phil Rowley from Canada. Phil has quickly become one of the authorities on fly fishing lakes. … Read more
Our boat seemed abandoned and until these past two days my new silver 1991 Explorer had yet to take us fishing. I don’t like being away so much in the months of June and July but that’s the way it panned out. Monday night Granny and I headed off on our favorite excursion of the … Read more
The smoke was back this morning at Selwyn Lake Lodge. There was so much of it that there was concern about flying out on our way home. But although we were late, not leaving till 5 PM, we made the first leg to Stony Rapids on the Beaver. Departing at 5 was in a nick … Read more
It was time to begin the journey home today and wouldn’t you know, there was no smoke and not a cloud in the sky. I was aggravated to say the least knowing that if today were yesterday we’d have flown to the Sand Dunes and Hunt Falls. But sipping coffee outside my cabin was Ron … Read more
6 AM came early but we had a full day of flying planned to some special places, the Athabasca Sand Dunes and Hunt (Lefty’s) Falls. There was some fishing involved too. The flats in front of the Sand Dunes for pike then Arctic grayling at the falls. But the venture began flying out in drizzle … Read more
RA and Austin got so much great pike footage for the movie yesterday that it took the pressure off. Everything on their list got shot and I mean SUPERB stuff. And the epic day must have worn us out as well because I stayed in bed this morning till 8 and RA and Austin slept … Read more
Ron knocked on our door at 7 this morning and said he was already called to fly and work. That was the bummer to start the day. Furthermore, Brennan was guiding. We had big plans and couldn’t waste the day so RA, Austin and I got permission to use a boat. RA showed up … Read more