BC Sportfishing

The weather has been hot lately and so has the sturgeon fishing. With plenty of bigger fish showing up our clients have been hooking up with some trophy fish in the 6-9 foot range. Call today and book you sturgeon trip of a life time.

Capt. Bill with a nice 6 & 8 footer

Wow, it's been a few months since I've had a second to sit down and tap out a blog..... and there's lots to talk about.
As many of you may well know, the spring freshet is over and the Fraser River water levels have dropped to normal levels and the weather is spectacular. The great news is the Chinook fishing on the Fraser River is in full swing and the Chinook salmon are througout the river system. Our new guide Captain Ken Sheers has been catching Chinook salmon like these lately.

Welcome back to another fly of the month brought to you by Ultimate Sportfishing Adventures. As February sees the cold snap finally come to an end here on the West Coast, many anglers are drawn to their local streams in pursuit of the premier game fish… The steelhead. This month’s fly is a single egg pattern called “The Glo Bug” it can be used in all water conditions. The Glo Bug is best fished on a dry line using a strike indicator as the take can be very subtle, steelhead and trout simply can’t resist them. Click below to watch the tying instructions.

With the lazy days of summer long forgotten, and the barbeque since been covered and stored for winter, let’s not forget about the beautiful salmon fillets that were so carefully vacuumed sealed and put in the deep freeze for a springtime barbeque. Well there’s plenty of great weather in the months ahead, so lets roll out the barbeque and bust out one of your prime salmon fillets and prepare a feast of grilled salmon, try it out I guarantee you wont be disappointed.

Ingredients;

1 – salmon fillet, (sockeye or Chinook are my favorites).
2 - Tablespoons Keens dried mustard powder.
½ - cup of brown sugar
¼ - cup of butter.
Salt and pepper

Step1:
Melt butter and drizzle over fillet, sprinkle mustard powder, brown sugar and salt/pepper

Step2:
Heat barbeque to 350 Deg. F., Place on Barbeque skin side down and cook for approx. 20min. The brown sugar will turn into a nice glaze.

Step3:
Serve and garnish with garlic prawns and an ice cold bottle of your favorite white wine and enjoy.

* A fur trader named Simon Fraser was disappointed when he discovered the river that he and his crew of 24 explorers was not the Columbia river as expected, in fact it was a river system that would be named after him, The Fraser River.

* The Fraser River is home to North Americas largest game fish, The White Sturgeon

* The Fraser flows 1375 kms from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

* The Fraser drains a watershed of 233,000 square kilometres, about 1/3 of British Columbia.

* The Fraser's average rate of flow ranges from less than 850 cms(cubic metres/second) in winter to well over 7,000 cms during spring runoff.

* The Fraser carries about 270,000 cubic metres of gravel past the Agassiz-Rosedale bridge every year.

* The Fraser River's floodplain measures 75,000 hectares between Hope and the river-mouth.

* The lower Fraser Valley supports more than 300 species of resident and migratory birds.

* The Fraser River system supports 41 species of freshwater fish. Nineteen species of migratory or marine fish use the Fraser River during some part of their life cycles.

* The Fraser River system produces more salmon than any other river system in the world. The spawning run of pink salmon is the largest in B.C.

* The Fraser is the largest river in British Columbia.

* The Fraser River is the fifth largest river in Canada.

* All of Great Britain would fit into the Fraser’s watershed.