Langara and salmon fishing

Today we travelled from Vancouver on the next leg of our trip. We left the Okanagan early Monday morning where cherry picking week started on the farm. There can be nothing to beat a freshly picked bunch of cherries and we were fortunate to be able to pick a bag full to take on our trip down to Vancouver, about 5 hours.



The route of some 400km took us through Merritt to Hope and onto Vancouver. We stopped for another A&W burger and the boys still rate them as the best burgers in the universe.
After an overnight in Vancouver we had an early start to get to the airport for 8am to get our fishing licences and boarding passes for the plane and helicopter we needed to get to Langara. the 2 hour plane trip took us to Masset which is on the north of the Queen Charlotte islands (now called the Haida Gwai Islands). We caught up with a South African couple, Gustav and Estelle, who we had met last year a Langara - lovely to see them and hear Trevor chatting on Afrikaans again.


We were treated to a welcome coffee and a few smoked salmon snacks whilst we waited for our heli transfer. Trevor got to be the co-pilot whilst Ross and I were good back seat drivers.






Just fabulous to be back at Langara and after a quick lunch we were getting into our red fishing gear and heading out with our guide, Duncan, for the first afternoon of fishing.




Well the prize of the day goes to Ross






who had an almighty catch with a 25.8lb chinook salmon, definitely one for smoking, we also caught a few cohoe salmon and I got a butt-ugly lingcod (or Lynn-cod as it was dubbed). Trevor got an 18lb chinook and I released a 15lb one.


A fab way to start the fishing. The day ended with Trevor having a beer in the lounge, Ross in the jacuzzi and me downloading photos.