Tim Milne

We knew way back when I was talking to Jeff Hanak at the BC Outdoors Show in Spring that threading the needle from Bella Bella to Barkley Sound would be a nautical challenge. You see, Jeff is not only a head honcho and lead guide at Eagle Nook Resort in Barkley Sound, he’s the BC […]

Over the years I’ve spent a steady amount of time in Barkley Sound. In early Big Coast days I fished the Sound ton with Mikey Evans and Jes McFarlen at Parksville Boathouse and spent time on the troll with a number of nefarious West Coast Vancouver Island characters. Like the slightly famous Kenny Myers, Mel

There has always been something mystical about early season, running the boat and wetting that first line. After a long winter of tying leaders, gear shopping and prep, taking care of boat everything and hopefully making a trip or two South…kicking off West Coast salmon season is a bonifide right of passage. In our case,

There’s something about getting your butt kicked. In a nautical sense that is. We made a big trip Southbound from Bella Bella to Parksville and Barkley Sound in June and enjoyed some spectacular conditions. The run to Port Hardy, through Johnstone Strait and down the Northern Georgia Strait featured only a light following sea and

Well, with 16 seasons of Big Coast behind us it’s pretty easy to look back on what was a milestone time! First off, we couldn’t have shaken things up more by bringing on new sponsors in Bridgeview Marine and Mercury Marine. The first half of the season was as diverse as we’ve ever seen, running

For the past decade Big Coast in September has been synonymous with Pacific Albacore Tuna. And one of my favourite things in all of boating and angling, is being a tuna captain and chasing long fin tuna each season in late August and September. For the past decade my big-time fishing buddy and partner in

Once upon a time our wonderful federal government, the de facto political body in charge of West Coast salmon fisheries, looked after our salmon, our coast and our best conservation interests. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans employed a substantial force of able bodies, skilled at walking coastal creeks and rivers to perform salmon counts

Tucked away inside Princess Royal Island deep in Great Bear Rainforest, Klemtu is home to the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation and some of the most amazing coastal wildlife…anywhere! All five species of Pacific Salmon run right by Klemtu’s doorstep, and a slate of apex predators help make these near magic lands come alive. From jumbo-sized coastal

Hawgust means a lot of things to a lot of people. But down Hakai way it means something totally different…like one of the last prime time chances to catch (and release) a Wannock River Chinook Salmon in the salt chuck. When August finally comes around and the Wannock River salmon of Rivers Inlet are making

There’s some beauty iconic adventures in West Coast boating and half-baked trolling: Gulf Islands hopping; overnight Albacore tuna fishing off Vancouver Island’s West Coast; cruising Great Bear Rainforest for the wildlife and giant salmon…and running British Columbia’s Inside Passage from Prince Rupert Southbound. For all intensive purposes and this diatribe, I’m honing in on the