Frontier Farwest Lodge

The Morice River is the picture perfect place to skate a dry fly. It is medium sized with  Long, slow meandering runs with large boulders to provide easy reads on where the steelhead lie .

The Morice river is unique in two ways.  It is usually the last river to blow out in the entire Bulkley valley.  We have seen the Morice go several years without a blow out during steelhead season.  This consistency provides a rare assurance that you will have the opportunity to fish the Morice even in the worst of weather during your trip to Frontier Farwest. 

The second fact that makes the Morice unique is how the juvenile steelhead rear themselves.   Steelhead smolt in the Morice   often spend an extra year or two in the river due to the heavy aquatic insect populations.   They feed heavily on these bugs during this time.  This imprints a "trouty" aspect in the steelhead parr and it remains with the adults as they return after their ocean voyage.  Due to these facts Morice river steelhead are prone to attack dry flies aggressively.

Although steelhead may take a dry fly in a classic dead drift manner, they prefer a fly with a SLIGHT bit of drag. A waking fly, fished in the surface film, and guided downstream slightly slower than the current speed is a deadly method on the Morice.  It can take great patience to watch a steelhead roll on your dry fly several times before actually taking it down.  This is a sight that most anglers will never forget.