[quote=kevin lund]It is amazing to see how much money people are willing to pay for fancy boats, rods, reels, waders and everything else, but then to complain about 1-200$ for a week of steelhead fishing in paradise. I'm not sure it's as much about the money as it is to just complain about it. Most who go there to see Gods country are not worried about a couple hundred extra dollars to go. If that is your determining factor, then maybe it's not meant to be.
I have yet to spend any time there for steelhead, but can say that the salmon fishing in July/August is worth every penny of the cost in license fees that are required. The only place that compares to the size of the skeena fish in the Kenai, and that is not even close to as good of a fishery as the Skeena.


As a thrifty do it yourselfer up there I normally drop over a couple grand into their communities. Annual revenue statistics for the Skeena sport fishery have been estimated at roughly one hundred million dollars so whoever says the economy wouldn't miss nonguided nonresident aliens (the majority) up there is incredibly wrong. Seems that BC does want to become the next Quebec. Salmo G. is right in the fact that we have no say whatsoever what they do with their province. It does not belong to us however when it comes time to save those fish from resource extracting pigs I gaurantee there will likely be MANY closed wallets from all over the world. Maybe this is what the their government wants, to divide and conquer so big business (shell oil etc.) can get on with business. Who knows.