Canada Fishing Info

My graphite rod bent under the strain, bowed by the combined weight of current and salmon, and my reel sang the sweet song of a heavy fish pulling strongly on the opposite end. Salmon fishing has to be one of the best of angling thrills, and here I stood, waist deep in the moving current, with a dozen pounds of silvery salmon tentatively attached to the small fly on the end of a six pound tippet. Realizing that this fish was definitely beyond that measure, I played the salmon to my side as rapidly as possible, following the accepted practice for catch-and-release angling. I chose to release the fish to live again, moved more by a sense of conservation than a fear of the law, but nonetheless cognizant of the regulations which ban the retention of large Atlantic salmon over 63 centimeters in length. read more

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