The Fraser River gets my vote as you can fish it 12 months of the year.
It has so many species of fish in its waters and many different ways to fish for them. I guess this is why they call it the most productive salmon producing river in the world.
I also like it for its many different places to fish, explore, soak up the scenery, see its many species of wildlife along it shores and remember all its past history.
It was in 1858 that British Columbia first got its modern day start with the early gold miners finding large nuggets at Hills Bar just downstream of Yale. Yale at one time was the biggest city North of San Franciso and East of Chicago.
I once took a boat across to Hills Bar but found no gold or any signs of its past glory, long buried I guess from the silt and gravel washed down during each season's high waters.
I however have a few bottles from the gold minning days of Yale, a couple well over a hundred years old.
When out on the Fraser I quite often think of the First Nations people, Simon Fraser and other early explorers that plied its murky and dangerous waters many years ago, long before my time.
I also think of the thousands of gold miners that passed the same spots I am fishing with dreams of riches that they thought lay ahead.
I wonder if some of the large sturgeon that now lay in the depths of the Fraser were alive when these early miners struggled against the Fraser's mighty current.
Many never survived the harsh winters that lay ahead of them along with the deadly Fraser Canyon that claimed so many of these fortune seekers lives.
The gold may be gone but it now is silver, the silver bodies of the salmon that are now threatened and could go the same route of the gold and the long gone gold miners that once seeked the yellow if we are not careful.
I think I got side tracked a bit here but your history lesson for a Tuesday evening.
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