92 ROD & CREEL 



In August the main run of echoes begins, but it is seldom 

 many fish arrive before September. 



The best water for these fish is on the north shore going 

 well outside on the ebb and coming in as soon as the flood starts. 

 If you want good spinning, go up with the first flood and 

 andhor near the mouth of Seymour Creek. It is a four and half 

 mile row, but with a strong tide to help you, does not take long. 

 You can then fish until it again starts to ebb and have a fair 

 tide to help you home. For cohoe fishing a tide with long run 

 out is essential. The last three hours of the ebb are best for 

 the Narrows. 



For spring salmon the long run out tide is not so important, 

 but you should always endeavour to fish the last of the ebb and 

 not more than an hour of the flood. 



THE CAPILANO 



This stream runs into the sea on the north shore just outside 

 Vancouver Harbour. To reach it you can go by motor car on 

 an excellent road, or you can take the B. C. Electric or the P.G.E. 

 at North Vancouver. Also in the summer there is an auto running 

 every hour for some miles up stream. 



The P. G. E. takes you to within a few minutes walk of 

 where it empties into the .sea and the B. C. Electric about a mile 

 higher up. If you want to fish the upper reaches you must go 

 by auto. There is an hotel some miles up near the Canyon. 



The Capilano is one of those streams which stands in a class 

 by itself. Apart from its fishing possibilities, a few hours spent 

 wandering in the forests along the shore of the creek, watching 

 its turbulent waters as it rushes over a steep, rocky bed, with 

 here and there a "Dipper" or a "Kingfisher" looking for a meal, 

 or gazing into the clear blue water of some more placid pool 

 with the chance of glimpsing some "speckled beauty," or climb- 

 ing up to the top of the canyon and watching the blue watelr 

 several hundred feet below you as it passes between the narrow, 

 perpendicular walls, are hours indeed well spent. 



Apart, however from its merits as a beauty spot, it also 

 stands in a class by itself as a fishing stream. Owing to its close 

 proximity to Vancouver it has been fished and fished, until you 

 might think that fishing in it was a thing of the past. If you 

 go there on a Saturday or Sunday any time after the winter is 

 over, you are likely to find a man with a rod every few yards: 

 some will be scientific fishermen casting a fly with considerable 

 dexterity or spinning a minnow or prawn, others will be bait 

 fishermen. Every yard of that stream that can be got at will 

 be fished over and over and yet it is still a stream that good 

 fishermen can be reasonably sure of catching fish, provided con- 

 ditions are favourable. 



