Hunting licenses and LEH’s are in! (Synopsis’ as well)

Riverside has all your Hunting tags/Licenses, as well as the LEH cards. We just got a box of the synopsis’ the other day, but they’re going quickly and we only get on box…so come by! Just remember, applications must reach the Victoria address by 4:30 pm May 25, 2012. Also, we have a good range of basic ammunition types and a variety of hunting gear and attire. On a side note, we can special order just about anything at any time. Just call the shop or swing by!   Riverside Fly and Tackle (604)-944-2479

Garry Elgear; Shop Owner

Garry Elgear has owned the store for 8 years now and he is extremely well known in the industry. Garry has decades of fishing under his belt and is an excellent guide. His favorite systems to guide are the Fraser, Squamish, and Upper Pitt River. Garry fishes hard, but works even harder for his customers. He is a great guy to just come and talk to as well.

We now carry: MARUTO HOOKS and Terminal Tackle!

Riverside is now carrying Maruto hooks, (both Japanese made and owned since 1892), and we’re the only shop in Canada to have them. They are a premium quality hook, and are of an extremely high carbon composition. They are the only hook that has not been bent open on our might Fraser River sturgeon. We have a complete line of all their products and sizes, from sturgeon hooks, to salmon, to fly tying hooks and all types of swivels. Furthermore, all fly tying hooks are available in BARBLESS. Brian Chan and Phil Rowley were the first to purchase our Maruto fly tying hooks, and now highly recommend them to all, (especially our specialty balanced leech jig hooks). Come into the shop and check them out, I can actually guarantee that you will be impressed with the strength, sharpness, design, and look of these fine hooks.                       Hello Sturgeon!

Michael Thom: Shop Hand

Michael has been working at the shop for over fours year now and is Riverside’s most senior staff member. He is an extremely well rounded angler, with particular passions for flyfishing and fly tying. Michael has attained a wealth of knowledge of the sport and is always willing to help someone out.

A short history on Ryobi reels

  Since its establishment as a die casting manufacturer in HIROSHIMA in December 1943, Ryobi Limited has accumulated innovative technologies by making components for automobiles, electronics, telecommunications and other industries. In 1944, Ryobi has leveraged these technologies and drawn on its experience to diversify into the manufacture of printing equipment, fishing tackle, golf supplies, power tools and builders’ hardware. Therefore RYOBI, DAIWA and SHIMANO are the top three fishing tackle brands in Japan.

  Ryobi is all around you, making an enjoyable, comfortable daily lifestyle possible. Next time you’re in the shop feel free to ask about Ryobi reels and try spinning one for yourself and comparing them to Diawa and Shimano’s top of the line reels. We are extremely pleased and excited to be one of the few distributors in North America carrying the innovative and precise designs engineered by Ryobi.

  Ryobi sets the new standard for quality. Our Riverside reel technician has personally inspected these reels inside and out and has confirmed their superiority. Put one in your hand and feel the difference yourself.

Local Saltwater April 12 2012

April is a great time to get out and start fishing the local saltwater for winter feeder springs. We have had a couple of reports in the shop recently however this fishery is notoriously hit and miss.

If you do choose to go out try and focus your efforts around Vancouver Harbour,  Howe sound, West Vancouver,  Jericho, the Freighters are always promising places to try as well as the West and south end of Bowen island have been producing reports.

Try fishing off the bottom and using anchovies or4 inch coyote spoons (cop car, green glow and UVgreen) behind a green or red flasher with a UV finish.
Some other recently hot lures:
-Gold star spoons( cop car and green glow)
-Huchie in winter-white and army-truck
-Locally made c4 lures (no.5 pearl anchovy or dark green diamond)


  Try the new Maruto trebels! Extra sticky and extra strong

April 2012

Steelhead Intrudor

Hook: Mustad 34007 or equivalent straight eye
Tail: Choice of sparsely tied Bucktail
Body: UV Polar Chenille (Colour of choice)
Collar: Rea or Ostrich ( Tied in sparsely), lady aumhurst (colour of choice) ( Col
Eyes: Allumnum light weight hourglass, pseudo Eyes or Spirit-River Eye balz
Flash: Krinkle flash, hollo flash


The key to this pattern is to tie sparsely!

Modern Chironomid Techniques with TOM LAM. April 21st, 2012

Tom has been fishing over 30 years and is one of the most knowledgeable stillwater anglers out there. On April 21st, he will be delving deeply into one of the most technically challenging disciplines of Stillwater angling… the chironomid. The course is hands on and will be taking place at Hyde Creek, with everyone just meeting at the shop at 930am for the introduction.This one day course, tailored to all anglers, emphasizes the use of an indicator and instills a rigorous and disciplined approach to this fishery. Topics covered include the hows, whens, wheres and whys, of chironomiding, as well as tackle, knots, flies and etiquette.

Call the shop for more info, and come in to sign up! Spots are filling fast.

604-944-2479

Cutthroat Fishing – Searching Out The Pack

Kicking back in my boat waiting for my guests to arrive I pull out my binoculars and start scanning the water for activity.  Two hundred yards in the distance I see the surface erupt in the telltale manner of cutthroat trout working fry caught in a back eddy.  My pulse  quickens and I wish my clients would hurry up so that I  can get to these cruisers before they move on.  That’s cutthroat fishing on our coast – here one day and gone the next.  These nomadic beauties cruise where ever they desire – up and down rivers, creeks and sloughs in search of salmon fry, sculpin and whatever else should come their way.  They travel  in groups like a pack of rabid wolves in search of prey. Visually pleasing, the cutthroat is decorated with magnificent spots up and down its lateral line.  Under their jaw they display lipstick-like markings – another work of art.  I could admire them forever but I practice catch and release as these fish are in decline.  There are a lot of factors going against the cutthroat, such as urban sprawl and the subsequent lack of natural riparian zones where they thrive. I would like to tell you  that cutthroat are difficult to catch but I would be lying.  Cutties give up their location by their rises, aggressively slashing at fry on the waters surface.  I’ve witnessed what looks like a hot tub when a pack of cutthroat was viciously attacking fry in front of me.  One of the cutthroat fisher’s tools of the trade are binoculars.  With them you can cover lots of water in your search for their rises.  Successful areas to target cutties are sloughs, creeks and river mouths that sustain healthy fry populations.  Don’t overlook side channels on bigger rivers such as the Fraser, Harrison and Pitt systems.  Finding out when fry are hatching and what species can really help your success rate.  To aid your search, call local hatcheries and find out if there are any release dates of fry or if there are fry hatching in the river. As a fly chucker, matching the hatch can be very helpful in your fly selection.  My favourites are muddlers in different shades of natural to represent chum, olive to represent sockeye and gold for dirty water.  All my flies consist of a bead and a red throat of tying thread to represent a bleeding minnow.  Other times proven patterns such as mickey finn, the olive woolly bugger with a gold bead head or epoxy minnows should be located in your fly box.  Fly lines that are used by the cutthroat angler are floating lines, intermediate sinking lines or clear ghost tips as these fish feed on the surface.  Nothing can send one’s heart racing as much as when on the strip and witnessing the wakes in behind your fly as a toilet bowl flushes on your presentation.  Cutthroat are true game fish exhibiting strong runs and, on occasion, acrobatic leaps, giving anglers something to look forward to if you are a true trout bum.  Just because you don’t toss flies don’t let that stop you – cutthroat are aggressive feeders that will  take almost anything thrown at them. The most successful way to intercept cutties and to cover water is with spoons and spinners.  My favourites are 3/16 crocs with the smaller hook size, as they do far less damage to the fish when hooked.  In my experience silver fire stripe or fire wing is the winning ticket.  Brass can also be very effective in stained or coloured water conditions, with the hammered finish reflecting the most light.  For the spin fisherman, small silver spinners work really well.  Use presentations which you are confident in.  Mepps Aglia in a number two size is popular as well as Blue Fox in number one and two, silver being the preferred colour.  Drift fishers can also produce fine numbers of cutthroat using blades in the smaller sizes.  Colorado, French and Indiana blades all work well.  I like to hang a blade on a  quick change snap for the easy alteration of size and colour.  Place a few beads underneath to hang the hook directly below your blade.  Many presentations can work well under a float, which is dew worms, single eggs, shrimp, or even wool.  Make sure to trim your presentation down – a good rule of thumb is the size of your pinky nail.  Cutthroat fishing starts earlier,  so those trout bums that normally wait to fish until the ice is off in our interior lakes don’t have to wait so long.  Dust off that gear, take some casts and remember that around every bend of a river there is something new.  From views to fish, it always changes. Garry Elgear

Coquitlam River Cleanup Recap

Yesterday was our much anticipated Riverside Riverdaze Coquitlam river cleanup. We would like to thank everybody who came out and helped clean up such a precious river system. We were overjoyed by the amazing turnout we had, it was by far our largest yet. The river is now noticeably much cleaner due to the efforts of the over 250 hard working volunteers. This event has done a lot to increase the awareness of the issues present in the Coquitlam River ecosystem and will hopefully make some of the local residents more mindful of the river in their backyards. We used over 400 garbage bags and collected approximately 3-4 tonnes of garbage from the river banks. Everything from tires and cast iron stoves to rebar, couches and even a toilet was removed. We would like to thank the Cities of Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam for donating the garbage pickup of all the material collected. Riverside had some great support this year from volunteers, sponsors and the cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam. Thanks very much to : -Jing Niu & Allen Jensen from the City of Port Coquitlam for supplying bags and gloves -Caresse Selk from the City of Coquitlam for supplying bags and gloves - Redl Sports for donating a dragonfly 9ft 5wt fly rod to our prize draw -Echo/Rajeff Sports donated 2 Micro practice casting rods with Spey adaptors to our prize draw -BC Outdoors Magazine for supplying garbage bags and gloves for the clean up as well as some T-shirts hats, A Rapala casting rod and reel, Fillet knife, Ultimate Fly Box fly tying books, and Suffix line. - Shimano Canada for donating T-shirts, Hats stickers and tattoos - Daniel Rivet for donating gloves -Clarissa for the Custom made Fish Pin Our lucky prize winners: Wayne Namana – 8wt Fetha Styx Winelle- Shimano Hat Ted Wingrove- Rapala Casting Rod Kallum Corr-DFW 5 wt Fly Rod Shawn Peter- Rapala Andros Reel Dan Currie –Rapala Filet Knife Kane Beebe- Echo Micro Practice Rod Aidan Campbell – Echo Micro Practice Rod Glen – Shimano shirt Loyd- Shimano hat Stewart – Rapala Hat Jason Ryu – Shimano hat Nana – Shimano Shirt Derek Lowe – B$C outdoors shirt Kathy- BC outdoors hat Nick- Suffix siege line Custom intruder flies- Ray Seymour Andrew Collins- Stillwater selections fly book

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