After a twenty year break from fly fishing, I’ve decided to make some changes in life and revisit a hobby that was once my escape to help deal and cope with the stress in my life.

From a very young age, I always loved to fish, but growing up in Vancouver for the majority of my elementary school years, there wasn’t much opportunity to fish until I moved back to the Sunshine Coast to live with my father in the early eighties.

Every Saturday morning I would wake up early, get all my fishing gear together, jump on my bike and head out to fish one of the many local creeks near my home. These local creeks had quite a few sea-run coastal cutthroat trout that would come in from the ocean chasing the spawning salmon for their eggs in the fall.

I wasn’t fly fishing at the time, but have many fond memories of spending a day and many countless hours hiking up and down those creeks hitting each secret spot hoping there would be a nice cutthroat waiting for me.

In my first year of high school in grade eight, I became fascinated with fly tying & fly fishing. I went to the library in our high school and must of held the all time record for signing out the hard cover copy of “A River Never Sleeps” by Roderick L. Haig-Brown.

Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fly fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. A River Never Sleeps is like a bible for fly fishermen and for me, it was all I needed to be drawn into a journey of escape and the perfect presentation of a fly to an awaiting trout.

Roderick L. Haig-Brown & his book wasn’t my only guide and mentor when it came to fly fishing. I also credit Ian Clark for my first fly tying & casting lessons. It was in the early spring of 1985 that he took his family and I up to one of our local lakes on the upper Sunshine Coast to fly fish for cutthroat trout. It was there that he taught me how to cast and hook my first trout on a fly.

I continued to fly fish for quite a few years up until about 1997 when life and work started to get in the way and other interests took over is when I stopped fly fishing.

Rolling the clock ahead twenty years to the spring of 2017, I’ve found a renewed love for my old hobby and have picked up from where I left fly tying & fishing back in 1997.

I’ve created this blog to share, document and create new memories for this renewed hobby that I once loved so much so many years ago…

I hope you enjoy the journey,
Sam