Many chinook salmon, responding to nature's call home, take a route that leads them down the western shore of the Queen Charlottes. From May through September wave after wave of migrating chinook pass through the fertile waters of the west coast. Each wave of fish brings another opportunity for fantastic salmon angling. These are mature fish, often reaching weights of forty pounds or more. Every year a few fish in the fifties are landed, and occasionally, a sixty pound monster makes a salmon anglers dreams come true.
Coho follow the same route as the chinook.
Coho begin arriving on the west side in June. By September vast schools of hook-nosed northern salmon flood the west coast. If world class salmon angling isn't enough The untapped fishing grounds of the west side offer perhaps the finest halibut angling in British Columbia. No doubt, many excellent halibut beds are still undiscovered. The relatively small patches of ocean bottom explored to date have produced phenomenal catches.