Big buck from the Copper River. Around the 40" mark. One of 3 fish I had take in the run that morning.
another that morning. wouldn't normally take that many pics, but this one glowed.
this one bent out my hook on the take. hot fish.
The Copper River will have a tar sands pipeline running along its banks if Premier Christy Clark backs down and lets Harper and Redford (Alberta premier) have their way with our coast. Northern Gateway will parallel and existing natural gas pipeline. Here is a photo of that said natural gas pipeline near where I caught that buck. A landslide tore the pipeline off the mountain and pushed it into the river. Had this pipeline been carrying tar sands diluted bitumen, goodbye Copper steelhead, salmon and everything downstream.
Now, get out and write letters, make noise about Northern Gateway. Don't loose this huge part of our coast. The Skeena needs our help.