ManitobaWalleye
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Hi everyone,
My fiancee and I are from Manitoba and are planning on touring the west coast at the end of September after our wedding. We are fairly avid fishers and are looking to set aside at least one day for a fishing excursion. We will be in Vancouver, Seattle and all over the island but are more than open to changing our plans if there's something that interests us. We will be renting a car for the week we are on the island and are willing to make anywhere on the island a destination but that being said we are pretty flexible where we can go on the mainland as well.
Bucket list items of ours are salmon (I think it's a good time of year for coho or chinook from what I've researched?) or fraser river sturgeon. That being said I think the environment is important as well, as some of the scenic pictures we've seen of your province are absolutely stunning, something my soon to be wife would really appreciate.
I'd love to hear all of your opinions on what you think would be the best value in terms of fishing & environmental experience based on the time of year and what regulations allow. We are open to basically any idea's at this point: guided fishing in the rivers such as the campbell, chartered ocean fishing etc. I think right now we are leaning toward single day trips but we are able to change our plans depending on what opportunities are available. We are trying to keep costs reasonable (we just don't have the means to do some of these $6,000+ charters we see advertised online) but that being said we have set aside some of our vacation funds specifically for fishing so please we would really appreciate to hear any/all of your ideas.
Thank you very much in advance!
My fiancee and I are from Manitoba and are planning on touring the west coast at the end of September after our wedding. We are fairly avid fishers and are looking to set aside at least one day for a fishing excursion. We will be in Vancouver, Seattle and all over the island but are more than open to changing our plans if there's something that interests us. We will be renting a car for the week we are on the island and are willing to make anywhere on the island a destination but that being said we are pretty flexible where we can go on the mainland as well.
Bucket list items of ours are salmon (I think it's a good time of year for coho or chinook from what I've researched?) or fraser river sturgeon. That being said I think the environment is important as well, as some of the scenic pictures we've seen of your province are absolutely stunning, something my soon to be wife would really appreciate.
I'd love to hear all of your opinions on what you think would be the best value in terms of fishing & environmental experience based on the time of year and what regulations allow. We are open to basically any idea's at this point: guided fishing in the rivers such as the campbell, chartered ocean fishing etc. I think right now we are leaning toward single day trips but we are able to change our plans depending on what opportunities are available. We are trying to keep costs reasonable (we just don't have the means to do some of these $6,000+ charters we see advertised online) but that being said we have set aside some of our vacation funds specifically for fishing so please we would really appreciate to hear any/all of your ideas.
Thank you very much in advance!
Only thing about Tofino as an example as there will be coho around but the spring/chinook fishing will be pretty slow by then. In saying that.....who knows what the fish will do. 
