August Steelhead in Skeena country!!!!

What words could I possible type that could explain the great couple weeks we've had. I think I let the pictures and videos below tell the story.

The Joes!!

Of course all good things come to an end, the Skeena and her lower tributaries experienced a dramatic push of water last night. As a result fishing was poor today and likely tomorrow, but the water is dropping, so we're hopeful the dry fly fishing will return by weeks end. On the horizon is the Boundary Lodge season on the Nass Watershed, starting in early September. Boundary Lodge and the Boundary waters have a special place in my heart, I love that place and I know my guests and staff do as well. We're all looking forward to eight great weeks up north.


I want to leave you with a great quote form Canada's most recognized flyfisher and fly fishing author.


 “ The Steelhead, with the brightness of the sea still on him, is livest of all the river’s life. When you have made your cast for him, you are no longer a careless observer. As you mend your cast and work your fly well down to him through the cold water, your whole mind is with it, picturing its drift, guiding its swing, holding it where you know he will lie. And when the shock of his take jars through you to your forearms and you lift the rod to its bend, you know that in a moment the strength of his leaping body will shatter the water to brilliance, however dark the day”

                 Roderick Haig-Brown 1946

Oh my that says it all!


Walter Faetz
Spey Lodge Inc.
www.speylodge.com

Fresh pictures

Last week we had a great family of 10 from California in the lodge. They enjoyed a lot of great fishing, a day trip to the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary with Greg Palmer http://www.palmerville.bc.ca , a helicopter sightseeing trip with Sid at White River Helicopters http://whiteriverhelicopters.ca , and most of all Molly's fine cuisine at the lodge!! 

Wendy and her Dad John with a couple nice Steelhead taken on the last day of their trip! Wendy's first Steelhead with a two-handed-rod!

The following two pictures were taken today. My good friend Tom Danco and I always take a break at this time of year from the serious business of chasing Steelhead and Chinook to enjoy a week of fishing with the kids. Pinks and Chum salmon are by far the very best fish to get kids hooked on the pleasures of fishing. My daughter Olivia below has the fishing gene bad. She stares down that fly line, on each swing of the fly, with confident enthusiasm. It's a real joy to watch her cast a single handed rod at the age of nine. 

Tom poses with a big Pink that his son John caught below. John also caught a big bad Chum, that dragged the seven and a half year old around the pool for twenty minutes! My son Owen (5) in the background cheered John on with every fish he had on.

If you have a youth in your life, and you have the time, take them fishing for Pinks and Chum. It just maybe the beginning of a wonderful journey into the sport of fly fishing, that will fill their lives with decades of outdoor enjoyment and memories.