Catch Salmon BC

Some big changes are coming to Catchsalmonbc.com in the next couple of months.

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New and different services.

A good place to get information without affiliation, or hype on fishing the BC coast.

Okay, I just can’t say enough about those Snowbee boot socks. Hype does not begin to get close to how good these socks are.

The Just for the Halibut derby just concluded with five big flatties over 150 lbs. Your best bet is Oak Bay off Discovery Island, using large herring with an octopus tentacle on for strength.

The salmon slot limit of 2 to 7 pounds ends as of May 15. That means you can now keep the first biggies of the year, fish destined for the Fraser River. Fish tight to kelp beds and the rock shore using big bait, Pal No 3 dodger and a pearl teaser.

There are still some new steelhead in the top end of the Stamp, not many, but a few, on orange, red, black and pink.

Searun Cutts at Nile Creek gorging on pink salmon fry. Minnow imitations.

I don’t usually rave about products that I buy, but these socks are one of the few products that I picked up this year that have far exceeded my expectations.

These are warm, snuggly, comfortable, wick water away and have an anti-bacterial component that works like a hot dam.

If you haven’t got a pair, you should give them a try. They are simply spectacular. I got one pair, then another, then bought another six pairs. Now I’m buying them to give to family and friends.

Maximum Salmon - the only book you need to catch salmon from California to Alaska in salt- and fresh-water on gear or fly - has now been published!

They are hot off the press and ready to ship.

Thanks for the patience of the many dozens of purchasers who have already purchased Maximum Salmon.

And in other news: my book treatment of all the fishing spots on Vancouver Island - salt and fresh - should be out early in 2008 from Amato Publications, OR, USA. Just the thing for the fly or gear guy coming Van Isle’s way in the summer.

In their evolution, many anglers add fly fishing for the wonderful connection it affords with a fish. (more…)

I am in the process of setting up a series of lectures in Washington, Oregon and California for the fall of 2007.

If you would like me to include you in my travels, send me an email to: dcreid@catchsalmonbc.com.

I will be giving talks on some of the best places to fly fish in British Columbia - both easy to drive in locations and trips to exotic fly in locations.

See the March 2007 issue of Salmon, Trout, Steelheader for an article on fishing Nootka Sound, B.C., from Moutcha Bay.

Snowbee XS-P Tamar, 12ft6in, #7/8

Never heard of Snowbee? Neither had I, but their new mid-length Spey is worth a look.

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Give the angler on your list a special treat with a gift certificate for summer 2007. Any denomination available, contact catchsalmonbc.com or purchase a $100 gift certificate here:

Nootka Sound History

Nootka Sound - The Fishing

Lodging at: Pacific Safaris

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