Vancouver, Coast
compares with the excitement of as water levels below the dam can
bill-fishing in tropical waters. rise considerably when power is
& Mountains
The tributaries of the Fraser are
being generated.
Coast Mountains & Fraser Valley
easier to fish. The Chehalis and The upper Pitt River and the
Chilliwack-Vedder Rivers are famous Harrison River are two other
The powerful Fraser River is the
for their winter steelhead fishery, tributaries of note. The upper
potent engine that has driven much
though they can be busy almost Pitt River has some of the finest
of British Columbia’s development.
Its watershed drains some 231,500
any month of year as summer-run wilderness fly-fishing in the
square kilometres, nearly twice
steelhead, mature coho, or chinook province, with the opportunity to
that of the Columbia River to the
enter the rivers to go along with catch trophy Dolly Varden char as
south. At 1,400 kilometres, it is the
resident rainbow, cutthroat and bull well as trout, steelhead and salmon.
province’s longest watercourse. The
trout. Smaller waters, like Kanaka The slow-moving Harrison River is
Fraser has B.C.’s greatest salmon
Creek or the Sumas River, are great an ideal place to fly-fish or spin-cast
runs – almost countless millions
for shore-casting and more family- for cutthroat trout during the spring,
of fish. The river also contains
oriented fishing. when shoals of salmon smolts head
steelhead, resident rainbow trout, Mature chum salmon (up to 20
toward the sea. During late summer
searun cutthroat, largemouth kilograms in weight) are a tough,
and fall, the Harrison has an
bass, black crappie, and prehistoric tackle-busting quarry. During
exceptional fishery: all five species
white sturgeon (the world’s largest the autumn months, the Stave
of salmon return to spawn, most
freshwater gamefish). And this great
River, below the Ruskin Dam or
notably its monster white chinook
river flows through metropolitan
at its mouth at the Fraser River,
salmon.
Vancouver, the most heavily
is a popular place to find these Big lakes north of the Fraser River
populated part of the province, with
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the heavy-duty tackle needed to
handle these primeval fish (with
some huge specimens that could
top three metres in length). As this
fishery is strictly catch-and-release,
guides also have the expertise to
deal safely with these trophies so
that they swim away unharmed.
Through careful management,
the white sturgeon has made an
impressive comeback in recent
years, and hooking a really big one
will offer anglers an experience that
Vancouver Coast & Mountains Win a Dream Fishing Adventure.
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