May 29, 2013

NORTHWEST B.C.

FISHING GUIDE 2013

S TANDARD TERRACE

Photo by Brandon Broderick

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Northwest B.C. a fishing paradise Welcome to this publication which will help make the most of your fishing journey through Northwestern British Columbia.

And once again we’re pleased to show you some of the catches of the last while as provided by residents of the northwest and other places.

Northwestern B.C. is truly a fishing paradise, regardless of what your preferred method or target catch and you’ll notice that in the pictures contained here in.

For those who like the serenity of trout fishing, there are plenty of easily accessible lakes in the region to try your luck at. For those who enjoy the thrill and the fight associated with going after the big one, the region’s rivers provide ample opportunities to go after a variety of Pacific salmon.

And for those who want to hit the open

waters of the Pacific in search of salmon, halibut, lingcod, prawns or crabs, Haida Gwaii, Prince Rupert and Kitimat all offer some exciting ocean fishing opportunities and plenty of professional guides to help ensure your trip to the coast is a success.

Along with the exceptional fishing opportunities is exceptional scenery.

With bald eagles, grizzly bears, deer, gray whales, and the rare Kermode bear among the wildlife that calls the Northwest home, the opportunities to take in a unique wilderness experience is always present.

With thanks

The Terrace Standard thanks those who provided them and we hope you’ll share the thrill of the catch as much as did those who caught the fish in the first place.

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Colin Peal shows of his 40 pound Spring Salmon caught in May of 2012.

Off the track

Ben Sabal Sockeye fishing, August 6, 2011, Skeena River, Terrace Photo courtesy of Jason Wargovcsik

As the summer approaches, it’s important to remind people of the danger of crossing, or walking on, the train tracks to get to a desired fishing spot on the Skeena River. It seems like the message is catching on.

Local CN enforcement officer Kelly Yendrys said that he’s issued tickets to fewer people than when he arrived here in 2006.

“CN is pleased to see that education and enforcement on the dangers of trespassing has resulted in a significant decrease in the number of fishermen trespassing on our right of way,” said CN public affairs official Kelli Svendsen in looking at statistics gathered the past several years.

“As summer is approaching, we would like to remind the community that when people trespass on railway property, they take risks that can result in serious injuries and fatalities. CN will continue our enforcement efforts as a matter of public safety.” Yendrys patrols the area from Endako to Prince Rupert.

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Local Fish Identification CHINOOK (KING) • Mouth is dark with a black gum line • Large, sharp teeth • Spots on both lobes of tail • Large spots on back COHO (SILVER) • Mouth is light with a white gum line • Medium size, sharp teeth • Spots only on upper lobe of tail • Spots on back • Wide caudal peduncle

PINK (HUMPY) • Mouth is white with a black gum line.

• In marine areas, almost no teeth • Large oval spots on both lobes of tail • Large black spots on back • Pointed lower jaw • No silver on tail • Very small scales

CHUM (DOG) • Mouth is white with a white gum line • Well developed teeth • No spots on tail or back • Calico markings (vertical bars) - faint on bright fish • Narrow caudal peduncle • White tip on anal fin

SOCKEYE (RED) • Mouth is white with a white gum line • Almost toothless • No spots on tail or back • Large, bright gold, glassy eye STEELHEAD TROUT • Head blunt, jaw short - does not extend past the eye • Distinct dark spots on dorsal fin • Square-shaped tail fin with radiating pattern of spots • Often has reddish stripe along sides, gill cover reddish

DOLLY VARDEN • Spots on back - cream to pale yellow • Spots on side - red or orange • White Leading Edges on pectoral and anal fins • Body is generally olive green - the back being darker

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For all your fishing and tackle needs Salt water & freshwater licenses available here

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Barbecue Salmon Recipe -

Cedar Planked Salmon When you’re barbecuing Salmon, marinade the salmon to keep the fish from drying out as it cooks.

INGREDIENTS - serves 6 3 (12 inch) untreated cedar planks 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 1/2 tablespoons rice vinegar 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1/3 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup chopped green onions 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger root 1 teaspoon minced garlic 2 (2 pound) salmon fillets, skin removed

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Soak the cedar planks for at least 1 hour in warm water. Soak longer if you have time.

In a shallow dish, stir together the vegetable oil, rice vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, green onions, ginger, and garlic. Place the salmon fillets in the marinade and turn to coat. Cover and marinate for at least 15 minutes, or up to one hour.

Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat.

Place the planks on the grate. The boards are ready when they start to smoke and crackle just a little.

Place the salmon fillets onto the planks and discard the marinade. Cover, and grill for about 20 minutes. Fish is done when you can flake it with a fork. It will continue to cook after you remove it from the grill.

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We Are the Northwest’s Largest Power Sports Dealer. Come See Why! Sales • Service • Parts

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Willie McCleary with a Coho.

Dennis Therrien with a Coho.

COURTESY of Willie McCleary

Laura Smith posing with her prized Coho from the Skeena River.

COURTESY of Helen Smith

Spencer Krupop with a 50lb Chinook COURTESY of Spencer Krupop

COURTESY of Willie McCleary

Brock Neid with a Chinook.

COURTESY of Mark Neid

Brock Neid, Jacey Neid, Shane Kennedy and Maggy Ottenbreit with a days catch of salmon fishing at Lakelse Lake COURTESY of Mark Neid

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Shane Kennedy with Steelhead

COURTESY of Mark Neid

Sarah Artis with a 38 pound Chinook on the Skeena River.

COURTESY of Paul St-Arneault

Mitsihiro Iwasaki from Tokyo with a nice Kitimat River Coho Salmon.

COURTESY of Rob Bryce

Fabien Pealey with a Halibut caught 10 minutes from town.

COURTESY of Fabien Pealey

COURTESY of Mark Neid

COURTESY of Willie McCleary

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The Management Unit boundaries indicated on the map below are shown only as a reference to help anglers locate waters in the region. For more precise Management Unit boundaries, please consult one of the commercial Recreational Atlases available for B.C.

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rEGION 6 - skeena

GENERAL RESTRICTIONS NO FIShING: in any stream in the watersheds of the Skeena River above Cedarvale or Nass River above Kitsault Bridge, Jan. 1 to June 15 (NOTE: Nass River mainstem is EXEMPT and Skeena River mainstem above Cedarvale is only closed Jan. 1 to May 31). See tables for other exceptions.

NO FIShING: in any stream in the Iskut River watershed (upstream of Forest Kerr Canyon), April 1 to June 30; and in the Fraser River watershed in Region 6, April 1 to June 30.

Single barbless hook: must be used in all streams of Region 6, all year.

Set lining for burbot is permitted in the lakes of Region 6. Please refer to set lining and the use of fin fish for bait on page 9.

NOTICE TO ANGLERS FIShING B.C.yUkON TRANSBOUNDARy WATERS

REGIONAL DAILy CATCh QUOTAS

(See tables for exceptions) Arctic grayling: 3 Burbot: 5 Inconnu: 1 Kokanee: 10 (none from streams) Northern pike: 5 Whitefish: 15 (all species combined) White sturgeon: CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY Trout/char: 5, but not more than • 1 over 50 cm (includes hatchery steelhead in the Kitimat watershed) • 3 Dolly Varden/bull trout and/or lake trout combined • 1 trout from streams july 1-Oct 31, not including haida Gwaii (mUs 6-12 & 6-13) • 2 from streams on haida Gwaii And you must release: • all Dolly Varden/bull trout from streams all year, not including haida Gwaii • Trout under 30 cm from any stream • Trout of any size from streams Nov 1-june 30, not including haida Gwaii • Trout/char under 30 cm from any stream on haida Gwaii • Lake trout from Fraser and Skeena watersheds, Sept. 15 to Nov. 30 • all wild steelhead

POSSESSION QUOTAS

Possession quotas = 2 daily quotas.

(See tables for exceptions)

DAILy AND ANNUAL CATCh QUOTAS FOR SALmON

Please refer to the NOTICE on page 4

ANNUAL CATCh QUOTAS

Annual catch quota for all B.C.: 10 hatchery steelhead per licence year.

STEELhEAD STAmP REQUIREmENT

TABLE LEGEND See the following tables for exceptions and additional regulations on specific waters. π Stocked Lake (not all stocked lakes listed, see p. 85) ∏ Classified Waters Licence required to fish Class I or Class II waters, see p. 8 ∑ including tributaries

FOR SALmON INFORmATION Fisheries and Oceans Canada District Offices (DFO) Terrace: (250) 615-5350 New Hazelton: (250) 842-6327 Smithers: (250) 847-2312 Nass Camp: (250) 633-2408 North Coast (Prince Rupert): (250) 627-3499 Central Coast (Bella Coola): (250) 799-5345 Queen Charlotte City: (250) 559-4413 Whitehorse (MU’s 6-19 to 6-29) (867) 393-6722

Exotic Alert: Atlantic Salmon Please refer to the salmon section, p. 4

REGION 6

Before fishing steelhead waters, please refer to “Classified Waters” and “Conservation Surcharges” (pages 7 & 8) for the requirements for a Steelhead Conservation Surcharge Stamp.

NOTICE TO ANGLERS

Trout/char quotas from Skeena streams have been revised. It is now prohibited to retain Dolly Varden or bull trout from any stream in the Skeena Region. One rainbow trout or cutthroat trout 30 cm or larger per day may be retained from Skeena Region streams from July 1-Oct 31, however from Nov 1-June 30 all trout from streams must be released to protect populations during particular vulnerable overwintering, spawning and post-spawning periods. The daily harvest quota remains unchanged at 2 trout/char 30 cm or larger from streams on Haida Gwaii.

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To simplify angling and licensing regulations, and to improve fisheries management, a transboundary management agreement is in place for five lakes and two river systems which straddle the B.C.-Yukon border. The lakes are Bennett, Laidlaw, morley, Tagish, and Teslin (not including any of their inlet or outlet streams). The rivers are the Rancheria and Swift, plus their tributaries. (NOTE: Lakes in the Rancheria and Swift watersheds are NOT included in the agreement.)

Anglers may fish any part of the affected waters with either a Yukon or British Columbia angling licence. (NOTE: A B.C. licence is required to fish the B.C. portion of Atlin Lake even though it is also a transboundary water.)

The quotas and size limits for these waters are now similar on both sides of the border, but tackle restrictions have not been amended under the agreement. Please refer to the Water-Specific Tables in Region 6 for detailed information on the daily catch quotas and possession quotas, as well as gear, method, and bait restrictions applicable to the B.C. portions of these waters. Information on quotas and tackle restrictions for the Yukon portions of the transboundary waters may be found in the Yukon regulations.

Anglers are reminded that they are entitled to only one daily quota for any given species in these waters, regardless of which side of the border the fish were taken and even if they possess both B.C. and Yukon angling licences.

Please obtain a copy of the yukon regulations before fishing yukon waters.

regional regulations

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Fish On! Jeff Calson - Owner home 250-627-7587 • cell 250-624-1900 email: bcstyle@citytel.net

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Fishing & Hunting Supplies

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STEAK & SEAFOOD GRILL Rob Bryce is shown fishing IN the end of the rainbow. In July 2011, a storm rolled over us as we fished the Skeena River, just downstream of Terrace.

As the storm passed, it placed Rob precisely in the rainbow - proving once and for all that fishing at Terrace is indeed the “pot of gold”!

It was a once in a lifetime moment in time and space!

Photo courtesy of Glen Mikkelsen

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Jurgen from Germany with his first ever Coho Salmon on the Skeena River Photo courtesy of Rob Bryce

Mother Nature’s helpers It’s no secret the Kitimat River offers some of the best fishing in the province.

It’s also no secret we owe that to our hatchery.

That’s particularly true when it comes to steelhead.

Three years ago the provincial government introduced a ban on retaining wild steelhead.

However, you can catch and keep a hatchery fish - and the Kitimat is the only river in the Northwest that offers hatchery steelhead.

The Kitimat River Fish Hatchery was first started in 1977 as a pilot project, located across from the Eurocan Pulp and Paper mill.

It came into being to rebuild salmon stocks, particularly chinook, which had been hard hit by overfishing, habitat degradation and a couple of floods that had ravaged spawning beds.

At that time it consisted of an Atco trailer containing a few troughs and only released 50,000-150,000 fish a year.

Six years later a new, $10 million facility was built and now the annual release is in the millions.

At the hatchery five different species

of salmonids are raised: chum, chinook, coho, cutthroat, and steelhead. Steelhead and cutthroat are actually trout, but they are sea-run trout, which means that they have the same life cycle as a salmon by going out to the ocean to mature and returning to the rivers to spawn.

Each year adult fish of each species are caught by angling, tangle netting or seine netting to obtain eggs and sperm.

Once the raised fish are ready for release - the time varies from species to species - they are taken back to the streams from which their parents were taken except for a small percentage released through a pipe directly below the hatchery.

From there, they swim out to the ocean to mature, eventually to return to the Kitimat system to start the cycle all over again.

Incidentally, while they may not be the most prized fish, the hatchery is top heavy on the production of chum salmon.

That’s because they were historically the most numerous species in the Kitimat.

Call 250-639-9888 to see if the hatchery is offering tours again this year.

You’ll find it a fascinating experience.

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COURTESY of Willie McCleary

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OT ALL THE GEAR YOU WE’VE G NE ED !

4427 Highway 16 East, Terrace | #500 2nd Ave. West, Prince Rupert

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Lakelse Lake

EXCEPTIONS TO ThE REGIONAL REGULATIONS

(NOT ALL SHOWN - SEE PAGE 5) Map 3 Kitsumkalum River - Canadian residents only on Map 4 Lakelse River - Canadian residents only TAGISH LAKE from the outlet of Kitsumkalum 6-27 Lake Lake trout daily and possession quotas = 2 the (onlyoutlet 1 over of 90 cm, none Lake between 60 cm and 90line cm); Arctic grayling daily and Saturdays to Glacier from Lakelse to the power possession quotas = 4 (only 1 over 44 cm, none (UTM between cm and 6032426), 44 cm); Northern pike daily and possession quotas = 4 (only 1 Creek confluence all year; Canadian residents only on crossing 9:36 516147, all year.

Sundays for the entire river all year. over 100 cm, none between 70 cm and 100 cm); whitefish daily quota = 5

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Single barbless hook TELKWA RIVER 6-9 Canadian residents only on the Telkwa River Sept 1 - Oct 31 (see Bulkley River) TESLIN LAKE 6-25 Lake trout daily and possession quotas = 1 (none between 60 cm and 90 cm); Arctic grayling daily and possession quotas = 4 (only 1 over 44 cm, none between 36 cm and 44 cm); NorthernConfluence pike dailyofand possession quotas = 4 (only 1 over 100 cm, none between Shequnia River Kle and Skeena River 70 an cm and 100 cm); whitefish daily quota = 5 za Cr TLELL RiVER∑ 1.5 km above ∏ 6-13 Cutthroat trout releaseKISPIOX VILLAGE ee Zymoetz River Shemandatory er 1-Apr 30 gun ia R ivDec Class IIk water Sept 1-Apr 30; Steelhead Stamp Tidal water regulations apply to waters below tidal boundary sign located 1.5 km above Hwy 16 bridge - check B.C. Tidal Waters Sport Fishing Guide na Zy ee mo Sk e tz R i TOMS LAKE Trout daily quota = 2; bait ban, single barbless hook ve r 6-1 TRIUMPH RIVER 6-3 No fishing Nov 1-May 31 TSEAX RIVER 6-148 See Ksi Sii Aks River 0 2 4 Old Hazelton TWOTERRACE MILE CREEK 6-8 Open all year; bait may be used; trout daily quota = 1 (no minimum size) Kilometers UNNAMED LAKE 6-1 No ice fishing; rainbow trout release; bait ban, single barbless hook Map 6 Skeena River Section 4, Zone BLocated approx. 6.25 km S/SE of yellow Moose Lake and approx. 6.25 km W/SW of Chedakuz Arm Canadian (approx. 500 M south of Natalkuz Lake) residents Sundays from WAHLA LAKE only on Saturdays and6-2 Rainbow trout daily quota = 1 (none over 50 cm) New Hazelton theROAD Chimdemash Creek confluence WEST (“Blackwater”) RIVER’S 6-1 to 1.5 Troutkm daily quota = 1; artificial fly only above Zymoetz River confluence, July 1 Dec 31. on the mainstem of the West Road River, see Region 5 For regulations TRIBUTARIES R NOTE: Page 61 is an excerpt of the yAkOuN RiVER∑ ∏ 6-13 No fishing from Yakoun Lake downstream 13 km to signs, Oct 1-Apr 30 Cutthroat trout release; no powered boats BC 2013-2015 Freshwater Fishing wa Class II water Sept 1-Apr 30; Steelhead Stamp mandatory Dec 1-Apr 30 lkitk Ni Regulations Synopsis and has page zyMOETz (Copper) RiVER∑ ∏ 6-9 Closed all year from McDonell Lake downstream 3 km to signs Confluence of to Nilkitkwa references that publication.

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On April 1, 2012, a number of angling regulation changes were implemented in the Skeena Region to address issues of overcrowding and conflict among users during the steelhead fishery.

Changes were developed in consultation with resident anglers, guides, tourism and business representatives, non-Canadian anglers and First Nations (for more information, see www.env.gov.bc.ca/skeena/qws/). They apply to the Bulkley, Babine, Morice, kispiox, Suskwa, kitseguecla, Kitwanga, Skeena (section 4), Zymoetz Class I section, Zymoetz Class II section, Lakelse and Kitsumkalum rivers.

Depending on the river, the new regulations include: • Extensions to the time period when a Classified Waters Licence and Steelhead Conservation Surcharge Stamp are required

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Map 7 Babine River - Canadian residents on • 2 Year Synopsis, Keep This Guideonly Until 2015 Familythe Fishing for Tidal and Non-Tidal Saturdays and Sundays• Free from juvenile fish Waters, Fathers Day Weekend, see www.bcfamilyfishing.com counting weir at the outlet of Nilkitkwa Lake to the • Buy your fishing licence online at Nilkitkwa River confluence, 1 - Oct 31 www.fiSept shing.gov.bc.ca/ ake

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regulation changes at • New times and zones in-season where only sh/regulations Canadians are permitted www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fi to angle and non-Canadians are restricted

• New measures for the management of angling guides For an explanation of all changes, visit www.env.gov.bc.ca/ fw/fish/regulations/ to read the Skeena Steelhead Regulations Brochure and Question and Answers that have been prepared.

The ministry will be monitoring these new regulations to ensure they are working as intended. Information on angler effort and satisfaction will be gathered and used to inform management decisions in the future.

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