Hooked on Adventure

Exploring the World of Fly Fishing with April Vokey

In our latest film, Shadow People at the Falls, Sam Lungren and I travel deep into the Guyana jungle to explore remote waters and target species like arapaima, peacock bass, arowana, and payara. But as the trip unfolded, the experience started to shift. The fishing held my focus, but the environment and the sense of where we were added something I could not ignore....
Dear Premier Clark, I am writing you with the intentions of expressing my disappointment and opposition regarding the proposed 2012 Shell coalbed methane drilling project in BC’s Sacred Headwaters. As...
I’m tired of feeling small. On game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, I sat on the edge of my couch and began the evening as a proud Canadian. Several...
It doesn’t take a genius to calculate that a size eight mayfly doesn’t have the same hook strength as a 1/0 streamer. This said, one can imagine my disappointment when...
I think it’s pretty safe to say that I meet a lot of men in this small world of fishing… Men from different countries, in different age groups, with different...
On April 9th I couldn’t wait to travel from Vancouver, BC to the Dallas airport to catch my afternoon flight to Belize City. With my birthday rapidly approaching on the...
Every once in a while I find myself lost in deep reflection… It’s usually around two o’clock in the morning when it happens… My brain starts ticking, as a compilation...
If you’ve read my first Iceland Blog, you’ll know that I have fallen in love with Iceland, it’s Atlantic salmon, and it’s hilarious residents (Rabbi). So, a month later I...
It has always made me chuckle how fishing, a sport that is renowned for its relaxation and soul-soothing, can be surrounded by so much drama. Spinning rods, level winds, center-pins,...
Buck fever. That’s what they call it when a hunter freezes or does something stupid during the perfect moment to attack their prey. I prefer to call it temporary retardation...
When I was younger, images of the classic fly-fisher casting a graceful rhythm of neon fly line would tickle my imagination and fill my head with visions of gently flowing...
I would say I’m a fairly honest individual. I speak my mind, say it how it is, and am always the first to stand up for what I believe. Call...
Every so often in a woman’s life, there is a calling to do something a little crazy (ok, so maybe it’s a little more regular than every so often)….. See,...
I remember the first email I ever exchanged with Icelander, Rafn Valur Alfreðsson. I couldn’t pronounce his name, and I certainly couldn’t pronounce his river, but the rest of the...
Whoever said that “running away from a problem is not the solution”, obviously never ran far enough away. Either that, or he was the a$$hole who was being run from....
Wow. The “Girls just wanna have fun” song is repeating itself inside of my head. The worst part, is that it’s singing in my head with the same scratchy nasal...