We are pleased to announce our affiliation with our good friends at Sturgeon Slayers www.sturgeonslayers.com.

Sturgeon Slayers is one of our neighbouring guiding companies that shares our passion in providing our clients with a truly memorable BC experience.
If you’re looking to go sturgeon fishing, between Fly Gal Ventures and Sturgeon Slayers, you can be certain you’ll […]

Every so often in a woman’s life, there is a calling to do something a little crazy (ok, so maybe it’s a little more regular than every so often)…..

Women acting crazy?  Nah…… (What the hell am I doing in this picture anyway?)  (Brian Niska photo).
See, I believe in living life with no regrets, staying true […]

I remember the first email I ever exchanged with Icelander, Rafn Valur Alfreðsson.
I couldn’t pronounce his name, and I certainly couldn’t pronounce his river, but the rest of the text was clear.
April, my name is Rafn Alfreðsson and I run a lodge on the river Midfjardará.  We would like you to come to Iceland to […]

I was a Girl Guide for nine years (for those of you from the US, a ‘Girl Guide’ is the Canadian equivalent to being a Girl Scout).
I graduated from three years of Brownies, to three years of Guides, to three years of Pathfinders; gradually stepping up the Girl Guide chain, learning cool tricks about camping, […]

It’s always been a dream of mine to fish the salt.  No, not the cold, survival suit, jigging for salmon, salt….. but the tropics.
So when the new man in my life invited me to join him and some of his friends on a trip to the Bahamas, there was no way I was turning it […]

The Steelhead season.
It never can come too early for the hardcore steelhead bum.  I wrote this little piece last year after an epic six week trip to BC’s interior and thought I would share.
Cheers to BC steelhead!

Cheers!  (April Vokey photo).
The Golden Valley
Whoever said that “running away from a problem is not the solution”, obviously never […]

Just a quick reminder that if you haven’t booked a spot for our Women’s Weekend Retreat on September 19th and 20th, there are several spots still available.
Check out the May 12th blog for more info.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before I tried my luck at the Great Lake Steelhead.
Good friend Paul Castellano with Cast Adventures (www.castadventures.ca), a guide on the Niagara River in Ontario, had been busting my chops for the past year, trying to rid me of my wild steelhead snobbery to give his […]

Eoin Fairgrieve’s My First Trout, is a refreshing and inspiring book written to educate children about fly-fishing and the importance of the environment.
The book is aesthetically pleasing with beautiful illustrations and practical, easy to follow diagrams.  Most importantly, however, is the abundance of informative content that the author was able to fit into forty pages […]

Yeah.  The whole fishing show thing never really much did it for me.
Standing like a dork beside another angler, asking questions I already knew the answers to, shaking my head like a bimbo, all the while making sure the light was hitting my face at the right angle……  No thanks.
In a television world starved for […]