There are only two or thee restaurants and one good bar. Plan to spend a part of your evening in The Log Cabin bar. That s where you can meet other steelheaders and learn where the fish are biting. The Thompson is huge river, with fish to match. Bring you heaviest, longest steelehad rod.
Many locals use twelve foot rods.
Jake, a U.S. anglers whose skills are legendary, uses rods up to fifteen feet long. Your reel should be a smooth casting model capable of holding up to 200 yards of twenty pound test line. Terminal gear favored on the Thompson includes, salmon eggs, shrimp and crawfish tails, Gooey Bobs, and winged bobbers. Patient fly fishers can find success working the huge tailouts of such runs as the Grease Run, The Nicola, and the Bighorn run. There are so many awesome angling opportunities in the Skeena River drainage that no one river can be singled out.