Skeena River Fall Steelhead
Fly Gal Ventures
If you’re looking for the ultimate predator — the meanest, hottest, sea-lice covered Steelhead — you’ll want to be on the lower Skeena and its tributaries.
These awesome fish average 8 to 15 pounds, while 20 pounders are not uncommon. It’s not uncommon for even the most average of fish to go on unstoppable, to-the-backing runs — leaping all the way down. These ultra-chrome rockets have left many an angler with shaking hands and a desire for more.
Run Time: August 1 – October 31st
Fall in the Skeena region offers some of the finest fishing opportunities in the world for Steelhead and trophy Coho Salmon. This is the season that has made the Skeena watershed justifiably famous and we are proud to have access to some of the most beautiful wilderness rivers in the world.
Towering snow-capped mountains rising over 3000 feet above meandering streams surround the orange, red and green of BC’s coastal autumn, making for an experience you’ll never forget.
Fall fish are surface-oriented and can readily be taken with both waked and dead-drifted dry flies.
The summer-run Steelhead of the Skeena watershed have entered their winter-holding streams and the fall fish are pouring in, strong and fresh from the ocean.
Coho have also been entering the Lower Skeena tributaries since early September, with the larger “Northern Coho,” arriving in October. Simply put, fall scenery in the Skeena Region is spectacular.