Hi Jarmo:

while there a few a few rivers that feature decent trout fishing along with
good or even great salmon fishing. There aren't many. Up in the Skeena area,
the upper babine and the Stellako have good trout fishing and would be close
enough to offer you a chance to do some trout fishing in early fall.

I've never been to the Skeena but some rivers have steelhead in spring
(April/May) and Large chinook at about the same time. The kalum and the
Kitimat are the most likely.

After about mid May until well into july there is limited angling on most
coastal rivers as the sun melts off the hillsides.

It should be possible to coordinate a trip of 4 weeks or so that would give
you a shot at coho and steelhead in the Skeena watershed.

Down south it wouldn't likely be possible - excepting the Stamp river on
Vancouver Island. The Cowichan also on the Island has good trout fishing
(including some large browns) throughout the year and the salmon runs make
for good fishing with egg patterns. The Cowie also has large runs of coho,
chum and chinook. There is lots of good angling for sea run cutts on the
island and you can catch pink, chum and coho all in there season right off
the beach at several locations from Cambell river to Parksville. These are
not wild places though - lots of houses and lots of fishermen.

The Harrison River you and I fished for an hour or two last December can
have good fishing for coastal cutts in September and into october - by then
that river starts to fill up with all 5 species of salmon. The Skagit river
(above the US border) also has good fishing for rainbow from about 30 to 45
cm and some large char ( 2 to 3 kilos) into October.

"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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Hi Tim!

Tim Although I live next door to BC (in Alberta) I do cross over to
Tim fish in BC on a regular basis. Most of my fishing is for trout in
Tim small streams and rivers in the East Kootenays, but I also get up
Tim to the Kamloops area upon occasion to do some serious lake
Tim fishing.

Now as it happens, my favorite type of fishing is trout fishing in
small rivers / streams (not stillwater). So we're trying to get a
combination of salmon and trout fishing into the program, and I have a
a couple of questions about that. I know, I'm now getting into the
details prematurely (before reading the books), but these are very
profound questions that might be really easy for you to answer.

In short: how well do the prime times for trout and salmon / steelhead
coincide?

First, in the spring you have the spring steelhead run in some rivers
(until May). Chinook are also starting their run at this time. From
what I've understood before (and flyguy's follow-up in this thread
strengthened the impression), trout fishing in the area is very good
in the spring. If this is correct, then it would be possible to
combine excellent trout fishing with steelhead and chinook fishing -
and also possibly catch sea-run cutthroat - if we were to make the
trip in May. Does this sound reasonable?

I also think I heard from someone that floods may be a real problem
and danger in the spring. Is this true?

Second, starting from August-September, there are all kinds of
anadromous fish entering the water systems. But how good is trout
fishing at that time of the year?

Thanks for those literature pointers. I guess it's again one of those
winters when I'll end up testing how much tension my credit card can
endure. Seems to be some sort of substitute for feeling the rod
bending.

--
Jarmo Hurri

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