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Comox Valley Sport Fishing
The Comox Valley offers the greatest variety of sportsfishing possible in Canada. The saltwaters of the Strait of Georgia provide five Pacific salmon species and innumerable groundfish. Freshwater streams and lakes hold steelhead, lake and stream cutthroa t trout and rainbow trout. All are available within a few minutes drive of the major centres of Courtenay, Cumberland and Comox.
The majestic trophy sea going rainbow trout, the steelhead, inhabits some rivers in and near the valley. Valley anglers are most fortunate for they have over ten productive steelhead streams within an easy one hour's drive.
Comox Valley lakes like Comox, Willimar, Regan, Maple, Blue Grouse and Wolf, hold good populations of resident cutthroat trout and are annually stocked with rainbow trout. The Forbidden Plateau has a number of smaller high mountain fishing lakes which are easily accessible along park trails in the Paradise Meadows.
Salmon sportsfishing is the favourite of most Valley anglers. Salmon sports anglers mark the salmon seasons on a calendar using a geographic basis; January to March for Chinook in Lambert Channel; April for Bluebacks (small coho) south of Hornby Island; May for Bluebacks north of Hornby, at Cape Lazo and Little River; May and June for Chinook in all areas including Hornby Island, Texada Island & Grants Reef; and, August & September for Pinks from Salmon Point south to Comox Bay. The salmon season is truly a year round sport.
It can be said that there is not a weekend or, a single day that the angler cannot fish from the Comox Valley. What is most difficult is to decide if today is the day for salmon, steelhead or trout. Truly, only Valhalla can be compared to the Comox Valley , the 'land of plenty' for the sports fisher.
Copyright © Barry M. Thornton: thornton@comoxvalleyrealty.com