Word: salmons
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Next time the budget meetings and staff cuts and underwater options make you desperate to get far, far away, imagine this. You are standing on the sandbar of a wild river, casting a gaudy pink-and-purple Showgirl streamer at coho salmon the size of fence posts holding in a pool downstream. There's not another human within 100 square miles. The helicopter that dropped you off will return in four hours as the sun slips behind the mountains. By then you will have hooked at least 20 shining silver coho weighing from 8 lbs. to 15 lbs. You will...
...miles northwest of Vancouver, deep in the Canadian province of British Columbia, where heli-fishing in the temperate coastal rain forest represents angling at its most spectacular. With some of the world's biggest runs of migratory wild salmon and steelhead, along with abundant rainbow and cutthroat trout, the inlets and islands south of the great Skeena River offer the kind of fishing our grandfathers liked to reminisce about. Until recently many of the smaller rivers had not been fished at all. There are no roads along the coast, and the rivers have too many rapids for boats to make...
...lodge has a helicopter pad on a floating dock. Craig, one of the pilots, flies through narrow valleys half shrouded in mist and lands on tiny spits of land, with tree branches inches from his rotors. As he soars over river entrances, we see salmon massing in numbers that are just a memory in many of the dammed rivers elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. King Pacific heli-fishes some 40 rivers within a one-hour flying radius of the lodge by special agreement with the local Tsimshian nation. Some of the Tsimshian work as fishing guides at the lodge...
When dining out, I have found that simple is often best, and so he who chooses the smoked salmon on (an average) bagel is rewarded with a lovely herbed crème fraîche as a light and savory stand-in for ordinary cream cheese...
...Watching all this with glee is Mahoney. The 37 stitches in his thigh have been removed, and the former academic is back behaving like a typical indie maverick. He routinely calls Salmon and Napolitano "Tweedledee and Tweedledum," and he is polling at 6%, which means he could be the difference maker between Governor Tweedledee and Governor Tweedledum...