After a day on the water, take (including the busy Asian-style Byng and Roberts Creek, today
advantage of Metro Vancouver’s Richmond Night Market) throughout most anglers troll lures or bait using
vibrant cosmopolitan scene. There the summer. downriggers. Feeder chinook are
is exceptionally fine continental, available year-round, with mature
Asian, and fusion dining at very
Powell River & the
coho and chinook arriving in June,
reasonable prices. If you still
Sunshine Coast
and major runs of all salmon
have energy after fishing, partake The Sunshine Coast is easily
species later in the summer.
in wintertime night skiing on accessible from the Lower Mainland
Further north, anglers can access
Cypress, Grouse, and Seymour
using B.C. Ferries’ service from
good fishing from Secret Cove and
mountains — only minutes from
Horseshoe Bay to Langdale, while
Pender Harbour. Leaving from these
downtown Vancouver. Clubs,
anglers from Vancouver Island can
protected ports, fish the underwater
theatres, and sports venues feature
ferry from Comox to Powell River.
structure of Bjerre Shoal to the
international as well as local talent.
Highway 101 joins the Langdale
south, and the Thormandy, Merry,
Visit Vancouver’s Stanley Park with
and Powell River terminals, with a
or Bertha islands. To the north,
its world-renowned aquarium, or
small shuttle ferry to cross Jervis
fish along the sharp drop-offs at
Queen elizabeth Park for a 360°
Inlet between egmont and Saltery
Ackland Reef, Quarry Bay, Nelson
view of the city. Feed the ducks
Bay. There are plenty of marinas
Rock, and Fearney Point on Nelson
and geese at Delta’s George C.
that offer day charters for saltwater
Island for salmon and bottomfish.
Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, or
anglers, as well as moorage for
The deep, sheltered waters of Lees
study the life cycle of salmon (while
those with their own boats.
Bay and around Daniel Point into
drooling over the huge specimens Near Gibsons, find good salmon Agamemnon Channel are suitable
that didn’t get fooled by your lures) fishing in the “gap” in Shoal for a car-topper. Anglers with bigger
at the Capilano River Regional Park Channel between Gibsons’ harbour watercraft can cross Malaspina
and Salmon Hatchery in North and Keats Island, then along the Strait to fish the eastern end of
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