Rocks, and just off Mendarte and and Koksilah rivers. The Freshwater rooms featuring exquisite stained
Halibut islands in Miners Channel. Fisheries Society’s generous glass windows and finely fitted oak
Between Sooke and Pedder Bay,
stocking program helps to maintain woodwork) are open to the public.
slow-troll your lures at depths
southern Vancouver Island’s fine And there are plenty of stores and
between 10 and 25 metres for
freshwater fishing.
funky shops to tempt the shopaholic
mature chinook to 25 kilograms that Sooke is home to many talented
in the downtown core.
begin to show up in May. As the artists and craftspeople who
North of Victoria, sample some fine
summer progresses, runs of coho, welcome visitors to their studio
wines at the many wineries in the
pink, sockeye, and chum coming shops. Take a dip in the Sooke
Cowichan Valley. Take a self-guided
though Juan de Fuca Strait add to Potholes, a wonderful place to cool
walking tour of 41 finely carved
the fishing. In late summer, great off on a hot summer’s day. During
totem poles, and learn more about
schools of hook-nosed northern
autumn, check out the salmon
the Cowichan First Nations, at the
coho swarm into the area.
spawning in Goldstream Provincial
Quw'utsun' Cultural Centre in the
Fuller, Thetis, elk, and Spectacle
Park. Follow up with some excellent
town of Duncan. Visit the British
Lakes (near Victoria) and St. Mary’s
winter bird-watching, as bald eagles
Columbia Forestry Discovery Centre
Lake (on Salt Spring Island) hold
and other raptors feed on spawned-
to learn about the province’s logging
smallmouth and bigmouth bass
out carcasses. In Colwood,
industry, highlighted by a nostalgic
in addition to trout. A designated
take tours of Hatley Park Castle,
ride through the dense forest
Heritage River, the Cowichan
Fort Rodd Hill, and the Fisgard
aboard an old, narrow-gauge steam
serves up rainbow, cutthroat, and
Lighthouse National Historic Sites.
locomotive.
trophy brown trout year-round,
Victoria, the provincial capital, is
On the way to the B.C. Ferries
with steelhead during the winter.
a tourists’ mecca. Take a guided
terminal at Swartz Bay, take a stroll
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carefully monitor the depths fishing
close to the rocky bottom around
the Flat Top Islands, and at Thrasher
Rock. If it isn’t too windy, drift-jig
around Snake, entrance, or Five
Finger islands, or around Driebar
Point on Gabriola Island. Try wading
the flats from Parksville to Qualicum
Beach during late summer through
early fall for great beach fly- and
spincast-fishing for coho, the
occasional chinook, and (in odd-
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