Browsing “Fishing”

If you don’t know Ali Milner and her music you do now. At 19 years old she is already a sort of crafty veteran of singing and songwriting.  Ali just released her second c.d and we got a chance to shoot a video for her in the deep woods of Squamish B.C and North Vancouver.  It was a blast and Ali truly knocked it out of the park.  Even in the rainy cold environment and us making her play the track at double speed she kept her composure and pretty much nailed every take.  Today is the day this video goes live.  Please feel free to embed it/email it to friends/facebook it etc.  Enjoy

Ali Milner I Can’t Wait Forever Music Video from Deer Head on Vimeo.

I think Fall gets a bad rap because it follows summer and is before winter… Not a good placing. Spring gets a mulligan because it follows the nastiness of winter and is before the best time… but Fall, it seems destined to lose.
On it’s own, the beginning of Fall is legendary. Sometimes with sunny crisp mornings, quiet skies… a good time for thinking and one of my favorite things, walking through the woods.

One of my favorite places to go in the Fall is Alice Lake. Located on that new awesome highway five minutes past Squamish, it’s a great place to head up to on a day like today.
In the summer, Alice Lake is a hive of activity, with camping and lots of day trippers. In the fall, it is a quiet place to go and bask in nature only 45 minutes from Vancouver.

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Just had my annual reminder….Vancouver Island is Awesome too!!

I’m going to try to take as many photos of fish in Vancouver as I possibly can and drop them on you as often as I can here. Which means I might actually get you one a month over the summer. Here’s one I got of two little salmon minnows at a place me n’ Arlo just won’t stop talking about, Capilano River Park.

Man, my son Arlo’s really been dragging me out to the fishing spots so he can post about them a lot lately (1, 2, 3 posts). The other day he was like “Dad, I have a gift for you. Close your eyes and open your hand.” and when I opened my eyes he had put this in it…

It’s from the hatchery in Capilano River Park, and you can only see Read more

At the beginning of the weekend I had the pleasure of going boating with some great friends. Then at the end of the weekend I had the pleasure of going boating with some great friends and about 200 perfect strangers on a Siesta boat cruise. It is nice to get a refreshing perspective of our fine city from the water. Beautiful.

Hi everybody, Arlo again!

Soooo… my dad told you about Family Fishing Weekend last week, and seeing as this past Sunday was his first official Father’s Day I drove my old man up the Sea to Sky to one of the most awesome lakes that’s not far from the city, Cat Lake!

I showed my dad how it’s done and even though we didn’t Read more

Every Father’s Day weekend, the BC Government offers residents of BC a complimentary 3 day freshwater fishing license! valid only for June 19-20-21, 2009, and of course you’ve got to learn and follow the regulations put out by the Freshwater Fisheries Society, but it’s an amazing opportunity to head to one of our local lakes with your dad and not have to worry about buying a license.

Learn more about your free fishing license here, then head out to Buntzen, Sasamat, Rice… maybe even up the Sea To Sky to Cat Lake with your old man or your friends and catch something!

Way down Southwest Marine Drive, not far from where I spotted the Urban Beaver, sit these two ruling sculptures.

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On the corner of Main and (I think it’s) 7th Ave is one of the most awesome… well… billboards in the city. I hesitate to call it a billboard because it’s so classic looking, it’s been there for as long as I can remember and it’s actually painted onto the side of the building.

When I first re-noticed it a few years back it was looking a little shabby, like it was in need of a paint job or that it might be slowly on it’s way out because it was a standing relic from the past, like a bunch of the ghosts of signage that can be spotted on some brick buildings in Gastown. But it keeps getting refreshed and a quick internet search will tell you that Langara Fishing Lodge is, in fact, a fully operational (likely thriving) business so the ad is still totally relevant. Should I ever drop a sum of cash on a fishing lodge excursion these guys are on the top of my list simply due to the awesomeness of this sign.

Hi everybody, Arlo again.

I got my dad to read through the last few weeks worth of posts on the site and pick out something totally awesome for me to do this weekend and he found Randy’s entry about Capilano River Park and decided it was time to visit the fish hatchery there. Here’s me kickin’ it in front of a tank filled with a few thousand little fishes…

As you walk/roll into the place they have Read more