Freshwater Fishing Journal

Big Leeches Attract Big Fish 

A couple of weeks ago I tied some huge bunny leeches to use on Kamloops Lake. Since then, either the weather has been lousy or timing wasn't right....

Kiss-the-Fish 




Had a chance to fish Kamloops Lake on Aug 26 with nephew Mike and great-niece Kylee.
Salmon fishing has just opened up on the lake and ...

2010.08.23 Green or Red Lake? 
The feel of fall was in the air as it was cool overnight. The LacleJeune webcam was showing a water temperature of 61F so I guessed that the mid level ...

A few hours to kill........Aug 20 
My phone rang and woke me up.

It was work and they were offering me a promotion!! NICE ! Of course I accepted.

Now I was in a celebratory mood....

How could I pass that up!! 
I had the good fortune to have a day off and was able to hook up with Mr Big Fish himself. We met a little later than scheduled ( note : take car seats ...

2010.08.10 Small Fry on BIG FLY 
I had the opportunity to visit a trophy lake with Mr Big Fish and his friend Shawn. This lake grows fish fast and has produced some monsters in the ...

Leighton Lake Bombers Late 
July 20, 2010

After a great game of golf at the Tobiano Golf Course with my nephew, I decided to make the relatively short trek up to Leighton ...

Pass Lake Fish Selective June 22 
After the chironomid blitz from the May long weekend to about the middle of June, the rainbow trout at Pass Lake have become a little more selective....

Corbett Lake June 8 2010 
It has been a long time since I fished Corbett Lake, not since about 1990 when there was still public access at the north-west corner of the lake. Today,...

Scuitto Lake - June 6 
I had to twist KJ's arm a bit when I mentioned Scuitto Lake. It seems that he hasn't had much luck there in the past. But after he gave me his song ...

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Stormy Weekend  Well it's been 20 years since wetting a line in 6 mile...memories of "The Old Man" came to mind as I put in............it's been a stormy weekend here ...

2010.05.21 "Old Faithful" provides yet another Friday fish dinner   I had an opportunity to go fishing with Dave O (Mr Big Fish) on Friday and decided that I needed a fish meal. I picked the only lake where I always catch ...

Duffy Lake Chironomid Fishing  Dave O said Duffy wasn't doing too bad lately. Some of his fishing buds who work chironomids did well earlier in the week.

So a day off work for me ...

Red Lake-The Bite Was On  I remember back in the early 90's when drought was a concern. My friend Steve and I and my nephew Jeff and his girlfriend went to Red Lake in the spring ...

April 27th First Attempt at Knouff This Year  I was looking forward to this day for awhile as I had booked this day as a me day a few weeks ago and had plans to jump on the motorbike and go from ...

2010.04.25 Brookie on BFSH caddis  It was a pleasant Sunday drive up to Red Lake. I saw a lot of wildlife on the trip including California Big Horns, deer, and various birds of prey. When ...

Red Lake BC_Brook Trout and Booby Flies  Red Lake BC Brook Trout Dine on the Booby Fly...

It was a cool blustery day but Red Lake was ice free (had been for a week) and my longest fishing ...

Back to Morgan Lake April 11th  I have been itching to get back on the water since Dave O took me there last month. Unfortunately, the honey-do list needed catching up before I could ...

Jacko Lake-Nature's Fair-April 10, 2010  I was the first one at Jacko Lake on Saturday morning. It was 7am and the sun was shining. As I crawled up the access road there was a small herd of deer ...

Opening day Sawmill Lake Oliver  The sky was just turning light when I pulled into the lake. I was expecting to see the campsite full since it was the first long weekend of the year, but ...

The Crescent Beach Boys Six Mile-Morgan Weekend- March 13/14 2010  We got up early, got our Tim's and headed up the Coquihalla for an ice off weekend. We went in to Morgan first and found the east end had a skim of ice ...

Little Apex, Big Bow  5:00 am. Osoyoos bound. Pick up one of only a handful of friends that are still willing to be on the lake for first light in early March. I had talked ...

2010.03.05 Six Mile Lake
Earliest Fly Fishing Season Ever  Man, it has been so nice here in the BC Southern Interior... we have been witnessing temperatures in the mid-teens Celsius (that's 60'sF for our American ...

2010.02.25 Lower Elevation Lakes May be Ice Free Soon  I took a trip out a few of the local lower elevation lakes and in my estimation, if the warmer than normal weather that we have been experiencing prevails,...

2010.03.15 Morgan Lake- Shawn First Fish on a Fly Rod  Went to Morgan Lake with friend Shawn Proznick on this somewhat blustery day. We had been planning the day for a week or so. Shawn was getting cabin ...

Monte Lake, Aug 28,29 


I had the fortune of having some time to fish while camping at Heritage Campsite in the Monte Lake area this past weekend. This campsite was a treat ...

2010.08.30 Big Bloodworm and Llama leech lure Bleeker beauties 

I arrived at Bleeker Lake around 8:30am after dodging deer along the Roche Lake Road and bouncing through the mud puddles along the last stretch ...

2010.08.29 Jacko Cool at one end Warm at the Other 


I got up early on Sunday and decided to see how Jacko Lake was fishing. I hadn't been there since spring when I didn't catch much. I had ...

Let the Jury Decide 

We were at Roche Lake resort in the first weekend of June. We have been going on our annual fishing trip on the first weekend in June for the ...

Fly Line Design and Application 
Ask About Fly Fishing is featuring Jim Teeny tonight
Jim Teeny, originator of the integrated sinking fly line,
is always on the cutting edge ...

Leighton Lake - Spotty Again 
Leighton Lake - Aug 2

Some guys were catching them, some were not. I came to Leighton to scout it out for an out-of-town friend coming for a couple ...

Campbell lake summer 2010 
Fished on Campbell lake for the first time in a while. Right off the bat we took 2 small rainbow trout in the one pound range. We got those two on a ...

Leighton Lake.Heat and Thunder Pushes Fish Down 
July 26, 2010

My niece's husband Jon and I decided to go for an evening fish at Leighton Lake on just about the hottest day of the season so far ...

Walloper Lake June 26 
Today I had the good fortune to have the day off while my wife went to work. That left me at home with 3 kids. What to do? What to do? I know! " Hey ...

Zippermouth Lake-Quiet and Warm-July16 
For a while now I have been telling my friend Paul about Zippermouth Lake... it's a very small trout lake (unnamed on a map) in the Kamloops area. At ...

Kamloops Lake - Shores of Tobiano - July 15 

With water temperatures of 70F/21C fishing has slowed in the smaller lakes. The weather has been great here in the Kamloops area and with relatives ...

Wind + Hot Weather + New Moon = No Fish! 
So, because we had luck on the Saturday night, and to make up for lost time, KJ and I decided to make a trek south to the Roche Lake Area. Our first ...

Six Mile Lake July 10 
KJ got back from holidays from Saskatchewan on Friday and we hooked up on Saturday for an evening fish at Six Mile Lake. Although the wind was blowing ...

City Boy Catches First Fish! 
10 Year Old Keenan McDonnell Lands 3 Rainbow Trout

It's always a pleasure introducing children to fishing. Previous posts by various contributors ...

Roche Lake Quiet July 3 
Boy, for a long weekend Roche Lake was extremely quiet.

Maybe they heard about the fishing.

Anticipating a large number of boaters and fishermen ...

Heffley Lake July 2nd  Happy Birthday Canada!

With a long weekend upon us, I had the opportunity to get some family time in before camping Dick Hart Memorial Park for a ball ...

Community Lake June 29 
I have been putting it off visiting Community Lake this year (for no particular reason) but my recollection of past fishing (that's why I keep a Journal)...

Ken Johnson Wins First Tobiano Golf-Fish Draw 
Ken's story, "West Kootenay Lake and Laugh" , submitted in early June was drawn as the winner by Mike Porco, Head Golf Pro, Tobiano Golf. Ken and a ...

Campbell Lake - Wildlife Abounds. 
When the wind is blowing at Campbell Lake, shelter is at a premium. Such was the case last week when I went fishing with newlyweds, Mike and Mere. Although ...

Campbell Lake - Fathers Day 2010 
With both my boys grown and living out of province/country, it was a particular treat to have them both here (one with a new wife) for Father's Day....

Pass Lake - Chironomid Fishing Slows.06.15.10 
The weather was pretty rainy over the previous week and KJ and I were looking for a break in the weather to get our on the water... we found it on Tues....

2010.06.18 Llama Leech Lucky at LacLeJeune  
Last Saturday I went to the downtown farmer's market and came across a couple selling llama hair. They had small packages in black, brown and white ...

Play Golf Talk Fishin' 
The opportunity to play one of Canada's premier golf courses at your fingertips. As previously noted and advertised, Tobiano Golf & the BFSH Journal ...

Kamloops Fishing Lakes - June 4 2010 
The chironomid fishing has been good around local lakes... especially if you can match the hatch. As my good friend Mo Bradley told me, the size of ...

Blue Lake Blues 
It took three years for me and my pal LB to get back to Blue Lake and try to hook into those chrome missiles that taunted us back on '07 .... the anticipation ...

West Kootenay Lake and Laugh 
Work takes me to the Kootenays from time to time and often I route my travel through Grand Forks. I asked a contact there what lakes I should consider ...

2010.06.01 Jacko Lake - Water Rising  Jacko Lake hasn't been good to me this year. I visited after ice off, the water was brown and I got skunked. I visited a month later, the water was ...

Pass Lake - Decent Again  I was doing the jig at home, wondering where to go fishing. The weather was iffy and I was busy in the morning but I knew that there was a major solunar ...

Seven 1/2 Diamond Ranch-Fishing at Batstone Lake  On May 25th my buddy Dave and I went to Batstone Lake for a day of fishing. The lake is located on the Aspen Grove / Princeton hwy just down from Kidd ...

Let the Buffet Begin! 
The end of May and first couple of weeks in June are my favorite time of the year for fly fishing the Kamloops Lakes. Every day fly fishing is a great ...

Paul Lake May 26 
I have not been out on the water near as much as I would have liked so far this year. Lots of yard work and my job keep my fishing time to a minimum....

Bountiful Batstone Lake 
Going back to Batstone Lake on the 7 Half Diamond Guest Ranch was on my schedule for awhile. Last year, my Ducks Unlimited friend KJ and I fished the ...

Idleback Lake - Just Idle  My friend Dave and his wife Jane from Kamloops (mr BFSH)came down for a couple of days and we were allowed to go fishing for a few hours to Idleback Lake....

Red Lake & an 8 year old.  Today being Monday, May 24th I thought I would celebrate Queen Victoria's b'day by taking my 8 year old son to Red lake. I have been hearing good reports ...

Hosli Lake May 16 2010  KJ and I decided to make the trek into Hosli Lake on Sunday afternoon. The morning was beautiful when we made the pact but as we left town around 1:30pm ...

Tunkwa Lake Starting to Produce  I was back home in Kamloops after a 3 week stint in the Grande Praire, AB oil patch. I missed Mother's Day and thought it would be cool to take mom out ...

May 11, 2010 Early AM Duffy Lake  It has been a slow year to say the least for my fishing season to begin. I have had a few hours here and there, mostly at Six Mile when time permits ...

Ernest Lake-Roche Lake Area-2010.04.30  It has been quite a few years since I ventured into Ernest Lake, one of the gems in the Roche Lake Area Lakes. The road in was a couple of degrees less ...

Campbell Lake 25Apr2010  Campbell lake was the most productive lake that I visited last year so KJ and I decided to get an early start on it this year.

The drive up was interesting ...

Pass Lake - April 23 2010  As always, an anticipated visit to Pass Lake is always full of hope. This year was a real question in my mind as the lake had winter killed last season....

Kamloops Fishing Lakes
Mid Elevation Lakes now OPEN 
Reports are coming in that most of the mid elevation lakes (under 4000') lost their last ice this week.

Here's a list of a few that we know of...

Tunkwa ...

6 Mile Lake Apr 19 2010  After a 4 straight days of hockey, I just had to get out and cast a line. It was a gorgeous day when I left the house and was intent on fishing either ...

Red Lake April 14 2010  It was a warmer day than when Wayne and I went on Sunday but it was much windier.
I got to the lake at about 10:30am and there were a couple of boats ...

Getting the young generation hooked is easy when this happens  Went for an afternoon fishing with my daughter when she tied into this kamloops trout. She thought she caught bottom at first.

LET'S DO LUNCH AT ...

Getting the young generation hooked is easy when this happens  Went for an afternoon fishing with my daughter when she tied into this kamloops trout. She thought she caught bottom at first.

LET'S DO LUNCH AT ...

Kamloops Fishing This Week
Apr 9 2010 

Kamloops Fishing This Week:

The weather has been so bad this week, particularly the wind, that it was hard to imagine that anyone even got out....

White Lake BC 2010.04.05  KJ and I went east today and targeted White Lake, in the Shuswap. KJ had been there earlier this year and I haven't been at White since around 1998.

We ...

Six Mile Lake Apr 3 2010  I started the Easter weekend with an afternoon at Six Mile Lake. I was going for dinner at our nephew's place in Tobiano so I thought that I might cast ...

Kamloops Area Lakes
Weekly Report  It's been unsettled weather here in the Kamloops Area Lakes as the ice has started coming off more lakes. The days have been windy and the nights have ...

6 Mile Lake Mar 23 2010  I had a brief conversation on the phone with Mike Porco at nearby Tobiano Golf Course , and he convinced me that I should get my boat up to 6 Mile Lake ...

Six Mile Lake near Tobiano BC Mar 18, 2010  Some days some guys just shouldn't get out of bed.

Went out to Six Mile Lake to fish the afternoon with two business and personal friends and get some ...

02.21.2010
Cooney Bay - Kamloops Lake  After almost 3 months of not casting a rod I decided to give Cooney Bay on Kamloops Lake a try shore fishing with my spinning gear.

I was in browsing ...