Dowton, Little Gun, Gun, and archipelago. Book a charter fishing their home streams on Vancouver
Tyaughton lakes, as well as Mowson trip, and the resort will provide Island and the mainland — enter
and Pearson Ponds. These lakes you with all that you need for a the passes, channels and sounds of
boast trophy Dolly Varden char,
memorable and successful fishing the Central Coast. These salmon,
good-sized rainbow trout, a robust
adventure. fresh from the Pacific Ocean, stop
population of kokanee, and even
Saltchuckers have good fishing
in these feed-laden waters to gorge
eastern brook trout. Try casting bait,
for feeder chinook and bottomfish
voraciously before heading south
small spinners, and spoons at the
year-round, but the Coast only starts
on their migrations. With luck,
mouths of inlet creeks, or trolling.
to see sustained angling activity
you could find a huge Rivers Inlet
chinook in the double-tyee class
Coast
starting in June, when the weather
improves. At that time, mature
(over 30 kilograms) at the end of
The Central Coast is renowned for
Bella Coola, Atnarko, and Dean
your line. The booming surf and
its exceptional saltwater fishing.
River chinook make their migration
prevailing ocean currents drive
The region’s great archipelago
through Camaano, Laredo, and
massive schools of baitfish along
and spectacular fjords are easily
Milbanke sounds. These trophy fish
channels and ocean-facing shores
accessed. Anglers can choose
take a more northerly migration
to hordes of salmon waiting in
scheduled air service to Shearwater
route via Return and Johnson
ambush. Fish tight to the surf line
on Denny Island and Bella Bella channels, then turn up Fisher and
along Wurtele Island to Cape Mark,
on Campbell Island, or charter Dean channels past Ocean Falls to
around Cheney Point in St. John’s
floatplane service from Williams reach their natal rivers. The chinook
Harbour, and at Ivory Island, Purple
Lake, Port Hardy and Bella Coola. can weigh up to 25 kilograms, and
Bluff, or Cultus Sound. Anglers
Anglers wishing to bring their are well worth booking an early trip
preferring calmer waters can
own boats can use B.C. Ferries’ to the region.
slip into Seaforth Channel, Lama
Discovery Coast service, which
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Island and the Locke-Foote Islets,
salmon as well as coho and pinks
then between yeo and Dearth
as they wait near river mouths for
Islands at the confluence of Return
autumn rains to raise the water
and Spiller channels. Find scenic
levels. Jumpers near the shoreline
beauty and solitude at Donald Point
will easily tell you where big schools
(on Chatfield Island) and Big Bluff
of fish are holding. Kakushdish
(at the southern end of Florence
Harbour, around the corner from
Peninsula) — favoured spots for
Shearwater, or the Koeye River,
holding chinook further up Return
directly east of Hakai Pass across
Channel.
Fitz Hugh Sound, are merely two
Beginning about mid-July, of many hot spots. Cast almost any
successive waves of all five species kind of pink lure or fly, and you will
of salmon — mature fish bound for get into instant action.
Cariboo Chilcotin Win a Dream Fishing Adventure.
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