Fabulous Trip to Vancouver Island to Fly Fish for Salmon

Hi Everybody!

What a blast last week was. Larry, Roy and I flew over to Vancouver Island to fly fish for salmon north of Campbell River. The fly fishing was excellent. We camped right along the river we were fly fishing. We caught pinks, coho, springs, and chum salmon. The springs we caught were gigantic. Several were up to 40 pounds and they kicked out butt. The coho we caught were up to 14 pounds. The pinks were numerous and we caught several; humpies that had to be close to 8 to 9 pounds. Below are several pictures from the trip. We had perfect weather although we were delayed coming home because of fog.

Bob

bears came to visit a few times during our stay.

A real silver coho that I caught in the river.

Releasing a gigantic spring salmon.

Humpies

This big bull elk was bugling right behind our tent one morning.

Larry with a nice coho!

  

Fly fishing for coho is sometimes a waiting game.

Larry caught so many pink salmon!

Roy with a big spring salmon on!

Vancouver Island is a great place to fly fish for salmon!

Eagles were everywhere we went!

Larry with a jack spring salmon.

A coho for Roy!

One of our favourite runs! We call it the Stump Hole!

Great Canadian Shoreline Clean Up

Pink Salmon Fishing with the Saunders Boys

The pink salmon fishery on Vancouver Island is just plain fun! The Saunders boys regularly go to visit their grandparents and uncles on the island. The boys will fly fish the beaches for pinks that are on the move to their home rivers. The pinks travel down Vancouver Island from out in the Pacific after a year and bit out in the ocean. Pink salmon's life cycle is only two years but their size is quite impressive. They give an excellent account of themselves after a take on a 5 or 6 weight fly rod. Their dad, Roy, has made a point of teaching all their kids about enjoying the outdoors. I can still recall seeing Devon getting his knuckles dusted while tangling with a big humpy (male pink salmon) on a 4 weight rod. Fresh pink salmon on the barbeque is pretty darn good too. Way to go Brad and Devon. I can tell you are having a great time.

Brad and Devon with a nice pink! Looks like this "chrome" pink just entered the river!

Nice humpy Brad!

Devon with a beauty!