BY DAVID Y. WEI AND SUZANNE L. CLOUTHIER


The Fishing Experience


of a Lifetime? COME TO British Columbia!


BRITISH COLUMBIA IS BIG. It stretches some 1,200 kilometres from Canada’s boundary with the United States north to the Yukon border, and over 1,000 kilometres from the Pacific Ocean east to the Rocky Mountains. Covering almost 945,000 square kilometres, British Columbia is larger than the combined areas of California, Washington, and Idaho. Circumnavigating some 6,000 islands, and pushing deep into steep-sided, glacially carved fjords, B.C.’s rugged saltwater coastline measures almost 27,000 kilometres. The towering


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mountain ranges on Vancouver Island, the Coast Mountains, and the Rockies run north-south to intercept weather systems from the Pacific Ocean, which then release captured moisture as precipitation to replenish both man- made impoundments and thousands of natural lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. So, what will be your fishing experience of a lifetime in breathtaking British Columbia? How about salmon? There are opportunities to angle for two- to four-year-old feeder chinook 12 months of the year. Starting in June,


mature chinook join with immense shoals of mature coho, pink, sockeye, and chum salmon on their summer and fall spawning migrations. Try drift-jigging, or trolling spoons, plugs, or hoochies in the huge swells of the open Pacific Ocean along the “salmon highway” that follows the 50-fathom bottom contour off the west coasts of Haida Gwaii, the Central Coast, and Vancouver Island. Experience the exhilaration of motor-mooching a cut-plug herring along the edges of turbulent tidal rapids while peering into massive


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