I GREW UP BAREFOOT AND WILD in an outback hunting and fishing lodge in northern British Columbia, which inevitably made me fall in love with everything wild. I had always fished, but I didn’t truly start fly fishing seriously until my later teens, where my father would take our family every year to the west coast of northern BC to fish for salmon.
Here I quickly traded in my small single-hand rod and began using a long double-hand rod. Frustrated with always having to buy flies, I began learning how to tie flies on my own; sneaking into my father’s tying room and taking bits of feathers, fur and my own personal Sally Hanson Hard-as-Nails kit to tie my own. I began guiding on the same river that my father used to take us to and soon was immersed in the steelhead culture. My flies progressed as my fishing style progressed, and today I enjoy fishing with primarily classic salmon and spey flies, as well as my own freestyle spey flies for steelhead.
Fly tying has been an enriching process, in meeting other talented people in this industry and allowing me to find new places to fish, because as they say… trout don’t live in ugly places.
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Kate Watson
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