Flyfish Fanatic

I was on Vancouver Island this past weekend doing a book tour. We left Vancouver on Thursday morning at 6am and headed to Victoria.

We stopped in at a few of the local fishing stores in the Victoria area and dropped off a few copies of my new book.

Island Outfitters in Victoria is now stocking the book, so if you live in the Victoria area and would like a copy, go there and they would be happy to sell you one.

Thursday afternoon I did a book signing at the Save on Foods (3510 Blanshard Street ) in Victoria as they also are carrying my book. We then drove around Victoria a bit before heading to our hotel in Naniamo.

The next Morning we woke early to get ourselves to Parksville because I had a 8:30am radio bit on 88.5 The Beach

After the Radio bit we headed to My Publicists daughters school to do some fun stuff with the kids. Here are a few pictures of the event at the school.

I did some Fly Tying/Basic Entomology with them First

Then a quick casting lesson with them.

After the school we had a few hours to ourselves so we headed back to the hotel and took a bit of time to just Chill out.

That evening we went to the Save on Foods in the Woodgrove  mall to do another book signing.

After another LONG day we had a quick bit to eat at the local White Spot and called it a night.

The next day we got up and headed back to Parksville to do a signing at “Mullberry Bush” Book store, Here are a few Pictures for the signing.

My Son Tying up a few!!

After doing the signing at Mulberry Bush Books, we headed up to Courtney and did a book signing at “The Laughing Oyster” Book store.

Once all the book signings were all over, we decided to head back to Nanaimo and have a “Fathers day dinner”. We found this small restaurant called  “Nauticals”  close to the departure bay ferry. Man the food was GREAT, I highly recommend this seafood place to anyone that is going there. The Asian Prawns were out of this world, and the Dungoness Crab was some of the best I have had in years.

The Next day I had a casting class to teach at Westwood lake.

Here are a few Pictures from the class.

Teaching the “Roll Cast”

You can see Sharon’s roll going out nicely in this picture. She was one of the BEST beginner students I have ever taught, But I guess it helps that her Husband (not Shown) it a Die hard flyfisher and built her a custom made bamboo rod!!!!

All in all a GREAT, FUN weekend.

OHHHH, and to top it off my son and I headed over to “The Bungy Jump” in Naniamo before we went to the ferry!!!!!!!!!

Tight Lines & Fun Times

Rick Passek “The Flyfish Fanatic™”

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