Todd Oishi Fly Fishing 🇨🇦

Stunning photos, Marv!

Nine years to the day! Good times spent enjoying watching a game of hockey with family!
#kamloopsblazers

Agreed! My wife and I bought new iPhones in December and it was so simple to do it ourselves!

Yesterday afternoon I stepped outside just in time to enjoy and photograph this spectacular sunset. The fiery glow of the sun, cast through the trees and reflected from the river and snow, reminded me of the brighter and warmer days ahead…
#kamloops #sunsets #photography

The glow of Christmas lights cast upon a blanket of newly fallen snow can brighten even the coldest and darkest of winter nights…
#winter #kamloops #logcabins #loghomes #christmas #christmaslights

Thanks Marv! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

A Christmas sleigh that I built from scratch for my grandson and granddaughter, and for future grandchildren to enjoy for many more Christmases to come. Merry Christmas to you and your families!
#woodwork #woodworking #christmas #sleighs #santa #kamloops

Looks great! Good job!!

Enjoying organizing and adding another workstation in my woodworking shop. It’s been a great way to shake off cabin fever and stay out of my wife’s hair. Just need to finish building and installing the cabinet doors…
#woodworking #kamloops #woodwork

As a woodworker I accumulate a fair amount of "off cuts" from the various projects that I build in my workshop. Storing them while trying to find a purpose for them is a constant struggle, but today I finally figured out the most practical use for them... #woodworking #backyards #kamloops #campfires

It’s great to have a junior helper when it comes to snow removal from our driveway…
#snow #kamloops #winterwonderland

Ulterior motives when selecting cartoons for my grandson to watch…

A pretty spectacular Northern Lights display visible from our backyard tonight! Thankfully the skies are fairly clear and the clouds aren’t too much of a
factor…

Missing the time spent fishing, but having just as much fun woodworking and building some storage lockers to organize the shop…
#woodworking

An early morning guest…
#kamloops #bears

Yes, it was pretty impressive!

What a spectacular, backyard sunset tonight!
#kamloopsbc #sunsets

Yes, our lakes have an abundance of aquatic life, which accounts for the rapid growth rate and sizes of our brook trout and rainbows. Here’s an example of the size that our rainbows trout are capable of reaching at 2-1/2 years. This one measured 21 inches and 3.6 pounds (I kept this one for dinner):

Agreed! There’s nothing better than a shore lunch of fresh trout when camping!
Here’s a photo that gives you an idea of the growth rate of our eastern brook trout that are stocked as fingerlings (average size 7.736 grams ) after living for 16 months in one of my local lakes:

I know that brook trout are the native trout for your part of the country, and rainbows very popular, but do they having stocking programs for your lakes that use brook trout as well?
The lakes in my region that are stocked with both eastern brook trout and rainbows are very popular with anglers.

Stunning and beautiful trout! Love the spots and colours! I always find it very interesting to hear how the different species of fish were relocated and adapted to a new (to them) environment!
Thanks for sharing that, Aarne!!

They are a unique subspecies of rainbow trout, Aarne, with very few spots on their sides. They’re incredibly strong fish that are best known for their hard runs and high jumps once they’ve been hooked! The Pennasks are used for a lot of our province’s stocking programs for our interior lakes.

Enjoyed another picturesque fall day, searching for trout, and trying to “crack the code” once I found them. The Pennasks rainbow trout were in prime condition and more than willing participants today!
Nymphs proved to be the most productive pattern for this day!
#kamloops #flyfishing #rainbowtrout

I forgot just how fun watching Saturday morning cartoons used to be! It’s great to have little reminders of what we’ve been missing…
#nonfishingweekend #grandparents #grandparenting

The fall season is when I most enjoy fishing on our interior lakes. The air and water temperatures are dropping to more comfortable levels, the crowds are beginning to thin, and the trout are actively feeding and generally in prime condition…
#kamloops #flyfishing #rainbowtrout

As I take in tonight’s breathtaking sunset, from the comfort of my deck, I am reminded that today’s autumnal equinox marks the arrival of fall, bringing with it shorter hours of daylight, cooler temperatures, and fall fishing on our interior lakes…
#kamloops #autumnalequinox #sunsets #flyfishing

Had the privilege of being invited to harvest a small batch of choke cherries at the Simpcw First Nation’s village in Chu Chua near Barriere, BC.
I can hardly wait to taste the jelly that my wife will be making with the choke cherries!
#chokecherries #kamloops

Too funny! We just discovered it a week ago and are addicted to it! 😂

Our first good yield of peaches from the peach trees in our fruit orchard. They’re slightly smaller than expected, but very juicy and delicious. Our grandson Bowen definitely approves!!
#kamloops #peaches #orchard #gardening

Built this solid oak, pet/child gate for my daughter today. Love wood working projects that can be done in a few hours!
#woodworking #gates #petgate #childgate #kamloops