British Columbia

The first night of our rather short Canada road trip was spent at this luxurious camp in Oregon. A sign in the grungy bathroom said "No haircutting". Is all of Oregon that weird?

One of the huge Washington volcanoes can be seen the distance (Rainier?) Sweet coastline approaching Squamish

The Chief. The Squamish climbers' pride and joy. Good times to be had here.

Absolutey spectacular mountains near Squamish. Summit elevations around 8000 feet, but rising straight from the ocean!

My bro and I

Any steelhead in there right now?

camerman Todd

Not sure what kind of rock it was. Quality area and we barely scratched the surface. Didn't even get to the bouldering around The Chief.

Some of the climbs got real tricky at the end

Whistler Blackcomb. A huge tram now spans that canyon to connect the two resorts

Some impressively large chutes near Whistler. This one looked to be about 5000 vert and consistently steep!

Brit's first time fishing. Unfortunately she got skunked

mmmmmmm

Todd had a nice one slam his bugger at night

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle looking for a fish snack. Most anglers had a pram like in this photo. They anchored on the shoals and had two rods: one for indicator fishing and one for stripping nymphs

fish on!

Excellent fighting fish and phenomenal jumpers! This one took a black bugger trolled on a clear camo. The vast majority of fish were found on the shoals, about 7 feet deep. Water temp: 61.

Stomach sample: brown chironomids, olive damsel nymph, and something weird.

Roche Lake was reportedly good in the morning, but since my source told me morning fishing wasn't good I slept in and missed it. Doh! The most successful fishermen were using olive & black or brown & silver chironomids. Some used indicators while the guy who was really knocking em' was using a #6 sink and slowly hand twisting up. A crowd of boats was following the chironomid hatch as it popped up in different parts of the lake. I was able to find a nice pod of fish thanks to the finder but couldn't seem to find any fly that worked consistenly. Large black buggers, chironomids of different colors (black w/ maroon rib and brown w/ silver rib), and scuds worked. Most fish were about 16 feet deep. Water temp: 62 One friendly canadian told me he did really well on a flashy scud fished on a 2 or 3 sink. He also mentioned he once did well at Island Lake letting a backswimmer pattern sink to about 40 feet and having fish slam it near the bottom.

Anyway, gotta be more prepared and have more time to figure out these Kamloops lakes. Some seriously big fish and good times to be had here. Hopefully I'll get to hit Dragon Lake one day.