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Salmon & bottom fish
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Rainbow trout
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Winter/ ice fishing
circles as “The Fishing Highway”. Spring-fed Sheridan Lake is stocked annually and is famous for its super-sized rainbow trout up to 9kg/20lb. Almost next door is Bridge Lake, with numerous bays and islands and crystal-clear waters teeming with rainbow and lake trout (char), kokanee and burbot. With 100-plus lakes typically within an hour’s drive of one another, this really is a fishers’ paradise.
In the Chilcotin, Charlotte Lake (at the foothills of the Coast Mountains) is renowned for its trophy-sized rainbow trout. Fly fishing is king at nearby Nimpo Lake, charter air services here offer many fly-in options to neighbouring lodges and fishing camps. Then there’s the legendary Blackwater River, renowned for its gentle, canoe-friendly grade and numerous insect hatches feeding prolific populations of trout, whitefish and squawfish. Rainbow trout and Dolly Varden churn up the cerulean-blue waters of the Chilko River where it leads into massive Chilko Lake, as pretty as it is productive. Locals 86
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Fly fishing enthusiasts, meanwhile, congregate on the Horsefly River, nursery for three-quarters of the rainbow trout found in nearby Quesnel Lake. In the fall its waters nearly boil with millions of sockeye and chinook salmon en route to their spawning grounds. Near Quesnel, cattails and bulrushes line the banks of jewel-like Dragon Lake, filled with trophy trout.
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Clearwater Lake
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