forests, grasslands, and rolling hills Highway 20 provides access to
boasts incredible vistas and wildlife Clearwater, Puntzi, Horn, Alexis,
viewing while delivering clear, Anahim, Charlotte, One eye, and
fish-filled rivers, and lakes that are Tatla lakes, with fine fishing for
an angler’s dream. you can drive rainbow trout to 1.5 kilograms.
to most good fishing spots, but Some lakes in this spectacular
dare to be adventurous by hiking, region contain lake char, kokanee, or
canoeing, horseback riding, or Dolly Varden. Anglers can certainly
flying into some of the more remote justify the longer drive from
backcountry waters. The region Highway 20 to elkin, Chaunigan,
has a wide range of fishing lodges
and Vedan lakes, whose splendid
offering everything from basic
mountainous setting is matched by
accommodations to fully catered,
blue-ribbon fly-fishing for rainbow
high-end resorts that provide
trout up to two kilograms in weight.
transportation and fully guided or
The Chilcotin and Chilko rivers offer
self-guided angling adventures.
superb fishing for salmon and Dolly
Ready to take on the unrestrained,
Varden char, and are especially
acrobatic jumps of a wild Chilcotin
prized for late-autumn steelheading.
rainbow trout on the end of your
Anglers can find some of the finest
line? While not as powerful, these
dry fly-fishing in the province along
‘bows are almost as uncontrollable
the 300-kilometre Blackwater River,
as a bucking bronco at the world-
a major tributary of the Fraser.
renowned Williams Lake Rodeo.
Chilko Lake, further south, is an
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over magnificent Hunlen Falls into
Blackwater, Gates, Anderson, and
the Atnarko River Valley 253 metres
Seton lakes, and the Birkenhead
below) and its string of nearby hike-
River. There is good fishing at all
in lakes to the south have excellent
these lakes for Dolly Varden char
wild cutthroat trout fishing, with
and rainbow trout, along with
naïve fish that seldom see any
kokanee, whitefish, chinook, coho,
fishing lures. Other fly-in lakes
and steelhead in the Birkenhead
include Toms, Tsacha, Tsilbekuz,
system.
Crazy Bear, eliguk, Junker, and The scenic route northwest from
Squiness, which have good fishing Pemberton through the former
for rainbow and cutthroat trout to gold mining towns of Bralorne and
one kilogram. Gold Bridge leads to Carpenter,
Cariboo Chilcotin Win a Dream Fishing Adventure. www.bcfroa.ca/duncanby
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