Have you looked at a calendar lately? There is just over a month of shopping days left before Christmas, so I am putting the steelhead flies on hold a while to instead offer some gift suggestions.
Let's begin with hand crafted ideas.
A wooden fly box is a welcome gift and not hard to assemble. To build one, compile two 2.5 cm-by-20 cm strips of 3 mm thick strips of balsa wood; two 2.5 cm- by-10 cm strips of 3 mm thick strips of balsa wood; two 10.6 cm- by-20 cm pieces of 2 mm thick balsa wood; one 2 cm-by- 9 cm section of piano hinge; and wood glue.
Glue the balsa strips together to form a 10 by 20 cm rectangle. Then glue the 10.6 by 20 cm
pieces to the rectangle, one on each side, to form a top and bottom.
This should give you one solid box. Cut the box in half, down the
center of the balsa wood sides. Join the two halves with the pianohinge.
Line the inside of the box with closed cell foam. Decorate the outside of the box with folk art and a coat of lacquer. Finish it off with a selection of your favourite flies and you are certain to please.
The report
Fishing on our Lower Mainland lakes is slow to fair. Try a slow troll or retrieve witCoachman, American Coachman, Professor, Wooly Bugger, Micro Leach, Sixpack, Dragonfly Nymph, Halfback, Doc Spratley, Baggy Shrimp or Zulu.
The Fraser River is fishing fair for spring, and cutthroat.
The Stave River is fair to good for coho and cutthroat.
The Harrison River is fair to good for spring, coho and spring.
The Thompson River is good for steelhead and rainbow.
