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Scott Gardner

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Associate editor and fly-fishing columnist for @OutdoorCanada & @OutdoorCanadaW, talking fishing, hunting, fly fishing/tying, kayak fishing & other cool stuff.
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Forget the trout opener: June is when Canadian fly fishing truly comes alive

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By Scott Gardner Verified
| Outdoor Canada Verified
Why early summer just might be the best time to go fly fishing in Canada Walleye will eagerly hit flies I have a personal rule for the opening day of trout season: Go fishing for yellow perch. It’s not that I don’t like trout—I do. But opening day, which across much of the country falls in late April, is almost always a letdown. The weather’s cold and wet, the fish are sluggish, and the rivers are shoulder-to-shoulder with anglers showing more enthusiasm than technique. I get it.
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Tactical patterns give fly anglers a new deep-water edge they’ve always needed—here’s how

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By Scott Gardner Verified
| Outdoor Canada Verified
To catch bottom-dwelling fish, tie on a jig-like tactical fly Tactical Zonkers (above) can probe deep I just might be onto something with these tactical flies, I thought as I brought another smallmouth bass to hand. It was my third fish in four casts, all from the same sandy-bottomed bay on one of my favourite bass lakes. For years, I’d watched my spinfishing friends catch fish here by dragging lead-head jigs, while my own subsurface flies went untouched.
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Want to improve your fly casting? Ditch that “powerful” rod

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By Scott Gardner Verified
| Outdoor Canada Verified
When it comes to your rod’s power, less is typically more Back in 1987, I hit the mall with a friend from my Grade 12 chemistry class to help him buy speakers for his new stereo. Duke, as he liked to be called, quickly settled on small, milk-crate-sized speakers that sounded great for a modest price. Then a fast-talking salesman showed him a series of larger, more powerful speakers. Duke was enthralled. “They’re so loud!” he shouted over thunderous Van Halen riffs.
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