The Skeena River is perhaps the most famous river in the world!
All five species of Pacific salmon and the elusive steelhead migrate up the Skeena River on their way to their native rivers to spawn. Most salmon and steelhead world records are made or broken in the Skeena River and it’s tributaries.
Beginning of March the spring run steelhead start to arrive on the way to their spawning grounds, followed by the early chinooks. By June the Skeena River is not suited to the fly fish as high elevation snow melt causes the river to become high and brown.
But when the river drops in July and August it will be perfect to fly fish. At this time the river becomes a salmon and steelhead highway with literally millions of fish making their upstream migration. All 5 species of Pacific salmon (chum, pink, coho, chinook, and sockeye) are present in great numbers. Following the salmon are large summer-run steelheads destined for the Copper, Kispiox, Babine and Sustut Rivers as well as many other famous Skeena tributaries. They are aggressive to a fly, chrome and once hooked you will know it! Jumping, cartwheeling and ripping hundreds of yards of backing from your reel.
The fishing is truly amazing. This is the time of the year to get a potential world record fish from the Skeena River. We are one of the few guides who hold guide rights to all sections on the Skeena River.
The Skeena is a truly impressive river with big fish and snow capped mountains making the fishing in a post card scenery even more dramatic. There are very few places in the world where you can fish a truly wild undammed river like it was 200 years back in time! Swinging a fly in the Skeena can be a life changing experience, because your next fish can be 5 or 50 pounds.
