Month: July 2022

The 400 mile round trip yesterday to retrieve my credit card from a gas station turned out to work in my favor.  The route I had chosen, as I thought it was the original Alcan Highway, was to make it Whitehorse, and then take the Klondike Highway to Dawson City, ending at Delta Junction, the…

After a luxurious night in a 4 star hotel, I tried to head north only to find that my roaming Google Maps and Internet didn’t work.  I found my way to a McDonalds and used their free Internet to connect to Google Maps and get out of town. Most of the fishing spots were really,…

So, I just said “What the Heck!” and drove 5 hours to Whitehorse in the Yukon. I am 875 miles along the 1300 – 1400 mile Alcan Highway, and 2283 miles from home. It was a nice road trip, and ALL the rivers and creeks I saw today, in the Yukon, were clear and fishable….

I sat at my campsite in the Tetsa Provincial Park at 1:00, wondering how close all the great fishing reported by the Fort Jones Chamber of Commerce actually was. I drove 10 miles up the highway to find the “numerous spots where the Tetsa River joins the highway”. Nothing, just beautiful scenery damn it. Muncho…

I am in the Tetsa River Provincial Park, in a campsite, for at least two days. I’m in a wifi dead zone, so several posts will go up at the same time in the future.  I decided not to backtrack 100 miles just to fish one small river and maybe a couple of creeks.  I’ve…

Last night I pin pointed all the blue lines crossing the Alcan Highway on a map.  There were at least 150 between Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson  I filled up the gas tank and headed out from Alcan Highway Marker #0, for 280 miles!.  Evidently the blue lines on the map were mostly rivulets when…

I woke up to a wet campground with a medium rain hitting the area. I really didn’t want to float tube in the rain, and the prospect of catching “normal” sized trout in lakes of the area didn’t thrill me. The original idea for this trip was to document in a blog, fishing all along…

When a master fly tyer and fisherman like Tim Paxton tells you to be sure to fish the Lake Highway 24 in BC because there are over a hundred lakes all full of fish. I drove an hour to the town of Little Fort which is the eastern edge of the 97 km long highway…

Not much of an adventure day. I woke up to heavy rain at the campground. Drove 45 minutes into Kamloops to heavy rain as shown above. My day in town: 1) Soda and donut from 7-11; 2) Hardware store to buy supplies to make attempt 3 at a bug screen; 3) Denny’s for lunch (Super…

So, I woke up all ready to take two rods out: 1) my 5 weight for stripping and trolling; and 2) my 3 weight for dropping one of my new green midges below a bobber. Upon trying to get two rods safely in a belly boat, I decided that I could easily just use my…