Not that I like what BC is intending, but it's still less expensive than salmon fishing in Quebec or Labrador. You'd be lucky to find a Quebec river that costs less than $75 a day, and a lot cost quite a bit more. Nova Scotia remains affordable. Kamchatka was $100 a week. The Kola peninsula salmon rivers are pretty spendy. And the Alta in Norway is around $5,000 a day!

I agree that in the past, the BC steelhead fishing experience has been considerably under-priced. Because we've had it so good in the past, I feel like a lot of U.S. anglers act like they have some kind of entitlement to fishing in BC. T'ain't so. We have none. Zero. We're alien non-resident guests, and we get to fish there at their pleasure. And it seems they ain't too pleased with us any more.

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