Last week we were getting nice fish most days. Fish in the 12 – 15lb range.
On wednesday we never landed one over 10lbs. Then on Thursday everything
came together and we had a busy day. We landed 5 rainbows in the 11 – 17lb
range. Gorgeous chromers. Great fight. Also threw in an 8lb dolly and 4
shakers. The 219, 221, and 215 were hot that day. Typical spring colors.
Flies with green in them are working well as the water turns green from the
runoff.

Still have a few salmon/halibut dates left. Will be out on the west coast
fishing by the beginning of July.

Weather have finally turned nice. Looks like we may get a summer after all.
Hope you can join me soon.

Tight Lines … Brad Stubbs
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
cell:250-265-7110

The Woodbury Dolly Derby had another great year. We had 3 bull trout about
10 or 11 lbs, along with a bunch of smaller ones.We also landed an 11 lb
rainbow. Winning weight was 15lbs and third was 12. So close but no cigar.

Still have a few salmon / halibut trips available. Will be starting out on
the west coast about July 1.The boys are already having some good days out
there so will be a great year.

I got a new computer, and had to move over my fishing report list. Some of
you may have been in my contacts, and got automatically put into my fishing
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removed, please reply to this email and type in remove in the subject line,
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Feels great to be out fishing in the warm spring sun (when it decides to
come out). Hope you can join me soon.

Tight Lines … Brad Stubbs
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
cell:250-265-7110

Averaging 4 – 8 fish per day. Lymans, billies and flasher & hootchie all

working well. Colors change daily or hourly as all sorts of weather changes

have been coming through. It keeps you on your toes.

Getting a few nice rainbows, but they are pretty moody in this cold water.

Same gear working. Got a double digit trout the other day @ 99ft on a

flasher and hootchie. You never know where they’ll be on a certain day.

The Woodbury Dolly Derby is on April 6,7,8. Should be another great turnout.

The Dream Team (aka: The French Connection) and I will be out. We plan on

taking first and second, but third may be open. We’ll see how that plan

works out!!!

Look for the Gerrards to really turn on about the last week of April through

till the middle of June. We need to get the water temp back up into the

40′s. Good to book these dates soon as it’s looking like a busy spring.

Don’t forget about summer salmon & halibut fishing in Ucluelet. Looking like

another great year for salmon numbers. Great runs are coming out of the

states this year, helping us have great numbers of fish. One river I heard

of expects an increase of 500 000 salmon this year due too habitat and

hatchery enhancements. We’ll give those fish a run for their money as they

swim by Ukee in July.

Looks like fisheries has come up with a number for Halibut quota. I believe

it’s 981 000 lbs for the sport fisherman. That’s down from last year. Looks

like they may be closing the fishery a bit early again this year. We’ll see.

Lots of great fishing coming up this spring and summer. Let’s get out in the

sunshine and catch some rays and some fish.

Tight Lines . Brad Stubbs

www.kootenaykingfisher.com

The rainbows have been a bit moody lately because of the cold water. However the ones we are getting have been nice ones. The big spawners are starting to stage up in the north part of the lake, so catching more of these now. If it’s not a chromer, or going on your wall, we are releasing these ones. Hopeing for another record year at Gerrard.

Troll a fly or lures below 2 mph. Less action the better when the water is cold like this. It can try your patience, but the rewards will be huge.

The water may be cold, but the weather has been great. Most days getting above freezing, and the sun has been showing up as well. Got some color on my face on Tuesday on a beautiful sunny day.

See you soon!!!

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Tight Lines … Brad Stubbs

www.kootenaykingfisher.com

Ph:250-265-7110

I haven’t been out much in january yet. Heard it’s been a bit slow, but I’m
sure it will pick up again soon. I love February and March.Last year we did
very well during these months. Lots of Fat Bull Trout, and the big rainbows
are heading up north to stage up for the spring spawn. Lots of nicely
colored fish at this time of year.

Looks like the Nakusp Derby is on again this january. The Nakusp General
Store (Ph# 250-265-3444) is going to put it on this year. The dates are
january 28,29. Think I’ll pull the boat over the hump back to Arrow Lakes
for the derby. A great turnout last year, and should be even better this
year, as everyone had a great time, and was wanting to come back.

The weather has been awesome making for great fishing days as well. Warm
weather and not much snow makes for great fishing, but not too great for the
local skiers.

Lots of great fishing yet too be done this winter. Hope to see you soon.

Tight Lines … Brad
Cell – 250-265-7110

Kootenay Fly Company’s ( Brownies Flies) are hot right now. 215 with the new darker gray on top, 203, 210 with the pink crystal, 228, and 209 on a sunny day are all working great.

Back out tomorrow for 3 days. Hope to see you soon. Lots of great fishing to be done yet this winter.

Tight Lines … Brad Stubbs
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
Ph: 1-800-838-5269
Cell: 250-265-7110

I had Randy and Vicki up from Spokane, and of course first thing in the morning I’m telling them how great the fishing has been. Ya! most days getting rainbows over 10lbs, should be a great day! So out we go and I set up the rods. Nothing for 3 hrs, and I’m starting to look a little silly. Oh well, wasn’t the first time, and won’t be the last time I’m sure. Just keep on talking Brad and don’t let them see you sweat. Randy called it bonding time.

Then we get one around 3lbs, so that breaks the ice. Great here we go,  the bite is on.

Nothing for a couple of hours. You got to be kidding me. Well hang on guys it’s going to be an evening bite I guess. So we wait them out.

At 3:00pm, the guide is getting a little grumpy, and tired of changing out flies, apexs and plugs, when the root bear on the planer board pulls back hard, and my song starts playing on the Shimano. A great battle, with lots of arials, and we land a 9 lb rainbow. Great, awesome, now our spirits are lifted, but it’s still not over 10lbs. So I fix up the fly and put it back out on the board. Ten minutes later the exact thing happens, and we land a 7 lber. This catching is more fun than fishing, lets do it again says Randy! So out goes the root bear on the planer board. It seems to be the flavor of the day, so I put one out straight behind the boat. Ten minutes later the root bear straight back starts ripping, and then it shifts into second gear,and starts screaming. We got a big one I yell, and hand the rod to Randy.

What a great battle. Lots of power. This is obviously the big fish we’ve been looking for! After about ten minutes of fighting on the top, the big fish goes deep. Before we know it the fish is straight below the boat. Randy looks at his line counter, and it show’s 180ft. straight down. The big  guy just holds there, and won’t come up. It takes alot of work and about another 10 minutes for Randy to work him up again to the surface. We see the big red stripe on his side, and then he tears off again. Randy works him back for one last time and I slip him into the net. Now that’s how you end the day!!!!!

We take some quick pictures, and Randy says…. I knew a guy years ago that told me he released a 20lb rainbow from Kootenay Lake, and I thought he was nuts!! But now that I’ve seen one of these beautiful monster rainbows, I want to let him go back too. And with that we put him back and let him swim for another day. Thanks Randy and Vicki!!

Lets go fishing!! Drop me a line and we’ll plan a great trip, and a great adventure! Maybe we’ll even get some bonding time in. Ha!

Tight Lines … Brad Stubbs
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
Ph: 1-800-838-5269
Cell: 250-265-7110

The Woodbury Derby was held over the weekend. All three top fish were over 20 lbs with the biggest being 21.75 lbs. Just like the good ole days. Shows that Kootenay Lake is very healthy, and we should have some great fishing ahead of us for years to come.

Wayne, Karl and Marteen, were my fishing partners for the derby. We had good success, landing nice fish every day. One of the highlights of the trip for me was to be releasing big fish. They kept a few smaller ones for the bbq, which is great, but the big unharmed trout they let go. It’s a great feeling to let go 12 – 16 lb Gerrards, knowing that they are future 20 lbers. Besides they still had lots of salmon in their freezer from this summer in Ukee. Thanks Guys!

My fishing buddy from Ucluelet, Hank from Pacific King Charters came up to do some hunting for a few days. We decided to go out fishing one of the days as our chances for success would probably be higher than our success had been so far at hunting. We had a great day on the water. The weather was good with a small chop. I was a little worried with only two lines in the water, but we kept changing till we found what they wanted. By the end of the day we had landed a 17, 14, and a few smaller ones. I lost one around 8 – 10lbs which Hank was kind enough to remind me of for a couple of days. Thanks Buddy!!

We had no success in the hunting department. Hank had to go home, and I had to go fish the Woodbury Derby. On my second day of driving over to Kaslo, there was our moose standing in a swamp by the road. He got to stay there as I had to go to work. Well at least we have better success at fishing!!!

Primetime Kootenay Lake has just started. Make this the fall that you catch a big Gerrard. Drop me a line!!

Tight Lines … Brad
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
1-800-838-5269

Got the boat all changed over to Kootenay Lake gear, and put her in the water last week. Fished a day and a half. Was pretty slow. Straight sun and 30 degrees didn’t help. The water is currently 64 degrees. Pretty warm. Need it to get down to 55 degrees.

Caught small rainbows on the surface mostly on the 215, and two bull trout down at 145ft on Lyman Plugs.

There are 2 rainbow derbys this fall on Kootenay Lake. The Woodbury derby is Oct. 8 – 10, and the Kaslo Derby is Nov.11 – 13. The Kaslo Derby is now put on by the Kaslo Hotel and Barrens Tackle shop. They have a website you can go to. It’swww.kaslorainbowderby.weebly.com/  lots of door prizes and a free lunch at the Kaslo Hotel after

Time to book your Kootenay lake trip. Primetime will start around mid October. Prime dates are booking fast.  It’s going to be an awesome winter of fishing.

Tight Lines … Brad
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
1-800-838-5269

Have a day off so thought I would send out some pictures. The fishing is awesome for salmon. Loads of fish out at the wreck right now. Fish over 40 lbs  coming in from someone most days. The picture of the salmon is a 41 lber we got last week.

Hali’s are a little slower, but getting some big ones.

I am booked till Aug.31 but if someone wants to come out and fish September 1,2, I would stay and fish those days.

Drop me a line on my cell

Tight Lines … Brad
www.kootenaykingfisher.com
1-800-838-5269