Alan Wiggan 🇨🇦

The Cowichan River in British Columbia, a crystal clear freestone River about 40’ wide flowing away to the North through boulders and deciduous trees with spring green leaves lining the bank.

A pair of hiking boots stretched out in the foreground on a rocky point looking out past a small navigation light down a wide inland channel from Salt Spring Island.

In the foreground, a guide and his (very good looking) young lady client about to release a 36” Bull Trout. Water is flowing out around their legs from a mountain lake in the British Columbia’s Spatsizi Wilderness Area. The whole view is framed in the background by a vast mountain range.

British Columbia. I rest my case.

A rainbow arcing 180 degrees over the end of a lake with a small dock in the foreground and a Beaver float plane tied up to shore in the middle distance.

A brightly colored rainbow trout just under 24”.

A cow moose standing in the middle of a river about 100 meters awaylooking up-stream to the camera.

Rainbow fishing in the Spatsizi Wilderness of BC Canada.

Thanks for that - have a bunch of wet flies that I’ve never fished but will now put to work! Excellent thread!

Looking downstream over a long stretch of the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island BC on a bright sunny day. The river, about 60' wide, is flanked on either side by thick lush green forrest. A large boulder sits in the right foreground with a long riffle below that ends against a fallen moss covered Douglas Fir collapsed from right to left into the water . The water is shallow, gin clear, a slightly green tint with every rock on the bottom visible in the sun. It is perfect trout water.

Looking down from the bank about 10' above the Cowichan River flowing downstream from lower left to upper right. The river is clear, with shadows on its surface from the sun shining through the forest that lines both side of the river. Pulled up on the bank partially visible through shore brush are the blue pontoons of a raft and leading up the bank are well maintained gravel steps.

A beautiful day on a beautiful river - The Cowichan on Vancouver Island BC. Pulled in at the guide's home - after a day of dries and nymphing but trout were not very friendly. Water so clear it was easy to see many rainbows moving up stream but not feeding. Best of the day a 20" Brown.

Nice fish Mike! So that’s why you weren’t on air today!

Proud of our Prime Minister today.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau:

"Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

A better kind of leadership.

Stephen Harper has ‘a real problem’ with Donald Trump’s claims about Canada The former prime minister described Trump's recent statements as incorrect and out-of-sync with the longstanding friendship between Canada and the United States.

Excellent.

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

What a great run Finland is on and because it’s not going to be Canada :( I’m on Team Finland!! They are up 2-1 over the US near the end of the second in the Gold Medal game. Go Finland!

Very helpful and awe inspiring. Thanks for posting.

Boat looks beautiful!

What a sad picture to see. Fished out of here a lot - Telegraph Cove near the northern end of Vancouver Island - and our daughter used to work in the restaurant while going to school. Thinking of Gordie and the whole Telegraph Cove Crew.

That is a pretty cool history ~ thanks for sharing!

Santa in a stream with a fly rod guiding a tiny fisherman on a belly boat into his net. Merry Christmas

Indeed.

CPC 44%
Lib & NDP 21 each

wipeout territory, indeed

And that was before the Finance Minister resigned, terming the PM's economic policies "costly political gimmicks...which make Canadians doubt we recognize the gravity of the moment".

With that line she just backed up the bus and ran over him again!

Untangling fly line can be strangely satisfying ~ the winter version is untangling strings of those thinly wired, microdot Christmas lights :)

Thanks for posting!!

Quote continued :) "On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

A fly fisherman in a small mountain stream with his rod extended high to help guide the fish into the net.

I love that river too. This was 2001 and a very good friends first fish on a fly. Went back this summer and it unfortunately has been discovered :(

An almost ground level horizontal window. Peaking into the window - with his nose nearly touching the window - is a 3 Point Buck!

No privacy from Peaking Buck here. Looking into our bathroom!

... After many perfect drifts over him with a variety of flys I handed my rod to the guide and he continued to work his way through his tackle box. Nada.

It was a beautiful afternoon, great day on a great river -action but that fish is the only one that lives in my memory. Thanks for asking :)

I cannot forget an uncatchable Brown with the shoulders of a linebacker that neither I or my guide could entice to into a take. It was on on the Bow River in Alberta.

The fish was rising frequently feeding on emergers just below the surface ....

It is a very nice place to be, just feels comfortable.

Love your pictures reminded me of Cormac McCarthy: “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional..."

A blue drift raft is pulled up on the river bank. In the foreground a pair of hiking boots (we fished from the raft and often had to hike), in the background the river in golden hues with the sun setting behind low hills in the distance.

A bright blue sky day and in the distance a castle like mountain framed against the sky with trees up its lower slopes. In the middle distance a river filled with white water curves down in a reverse 'S' from the mountain and in the foreground a person seen from behind, dwarfed by the scene, at the beginning of a path down to the water gazing at river with binoculars.

The places fly fishing takes you, never a bad day.

A morning view down a long ocean channel with low dark clouds as a freighter is illuminated by the sun shining through a break in the overcast.

The view from here this morning.

Lorry Williams (@ldwilliams.uk) on Threads Haukur Sigurdsson captured this photo of cross country skiers looking like musical notes. ❤️

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