Salmon fishing really picks up For self-guided angling, marinas Whistler, try Alta, Alpha, and Green
from late July to late October in in Horseshoe Bay and on Granville Lakes. North of Pemberton, fish
Vancouver Harbour and in front Island have boats and fishing tackle Blackwater, Gates, and Birkenhead
of the Fraser River estuary, as for rent. Lakes. Birkenhead and Gates Lakes
mature salmon return to spawn. also have kokanee, cutthroat trout,
Coho and chinook return to rivers
The Capilano, Seymour, and Lynn
Dolly Varden char, and whitefish.
along Burrard Inlet, while abundant
Rivers also offer good freshwater
The Society also runs a very
hatchery fish teem at the mouth
fishing for coho during the summer,
popular, free learn-to-fish program
of the Capilano River in West
with fair runs of summer and winter
for youths under 16 years of age
Vancouver. Around Richmond and
steelhead. Anglers can also find
Delta, coho, chinook, chum and
some searun cutthroat trout and
at a number of small stocked lakes
sockeye hold just offshore, waiting
chinook salmon. The Squamish and
within metropolitan municipalities.
for heavy rains that signal adequate
Cheakamus Rivers have an excellent
On a set day each week for about
water levels on spawning-ground
autumn salmon fishery, and
two months every summer,
tributaries before heading up the
renowned winter steelheading.
volunteers provide tackle and
instruction at Green Timbers Lake in
Fraser River. In odd-numbered The B.C. Freshwater Fisheries
Surrey, Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam,
years, huge schools of willing-to-
Society regularly stocks a number
and Rice Lake in North Vancouver.
bite, fine-tasting pink salmon make
of fine lakes with rainbow trout in
for very successful fishing. Just
the Squamish-Whistler-Pemberton
Just southeast of Vancouver, the
when many anglers are putting
lazy Nicomekl, Serpentine, and
region. Anglers can also find
their boats away for the season, late
Campbell Rivers are popular spots
cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden
autumn is when fishing for silver-
during the fall to shore-fish for
char, and kokanee. Most lakes are
bright, feeder chinook starts all over
mature coho and chinook, with
easily accessible from the “Sea-to
again.
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Sky” corridor — Highway 99 —
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