Sonya Pask, Skeena River buck, BC.

Photo: Tim Pask.

It always rides hook up and has more action than the best exotic dancer.

Walleye or “pike” after walleye or “pike” hit the thing, and I soon had a nice group of 2-4-pound walleye or “pike” to fillet and fry up for dinner amidst the swarms of indigenous insects later that sunlit night, perhaps ‘round midnight.

The only other resident I saw was the otter who lives in a crack in the cliff face on the opposite bank. A big male, he grows fat on the Canyon's abundant crayfish.

Cartoon: Greg Keeler

Emerald rivers home to the marble trout and hucho.