Nassau Group on flats of Andros South

Pipeline competition no good for fish.

Longtime Dean and Sustut guide Paulie, aka Squig, has a theory about steelhead holding in fast current, rolling and jumping when they return to freshwater. "They remember what's it's like to be kids. After all that time in the ocean, they just want to have fun and play."

Zee German and I had suspicions about the third member of our traveling squad, "The Kid." A notorious chinook fiend who trained for years on the Kanektok and honed his craft on tidal rivers of the Northwest. Suspicions confirmed: The Kid is indeed the much rumored "Dean Carp Whisperer of the Kimsquit".

Grayling: The rodent predator

Last August I wrote about Judge Redden’s rejection of the Obama administration’s plan to restore Columbia River steelhead and salmon. Well, it’s déjà vu all over again.

The Skeena River system. Steelhead Mecca. The Bulkley, Kispiox, Babine, Morice, Zymoetz, Kitsumkalum...