All mature salmon of the Pacific grace our waters…

… there’s no argument that there are some spectacular salmon fisheries up and down the coast from California to Alaska, but the waters that surround Northern Vancouver Island (Port Hardy)  and Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte) Islands hosts the longest window of opportunity for mature migrating salmon particularly the trophy Chinook salmon. Geographically, every year all mature salmon migrate from the open waters of the Pacific Ocean where the Bering Sea spreads its cold clean nutrient enriched waters from the north. It is these conditions that provide prime feeding habitat for hungry salmon. The west coast of Haida Gwaii and Vancouver Island are the first two landmass that encounter these type of conditions with salmon in close pursuit while on their migration before dispersing north to Alaska or south all the way down to California. This means we have first shot at all salmon traffic of all species (chinook, coho, chum, sockeye and pink) from different salmon runs of the whole coast. They pass through these waters from April through the end of September. No other salmon fishery can make this claim!