Tim Milne

Running the British Columbia Inside Passage is the stuff coastal dreams are made of! Nautically speaking, it’s one of the coolest things you can do with a good boat and the ocean, as we’ve been doing our best to showcase on Big Coast for the past decade! As we’ve always spent a ton of early […]

One day last Spring a good friend in Bella Bella named William Hall approached me about assisting with the Heiltsuk Nation Men’s Health Program (Kaxla). The program was aimed at providing healthy and often healing opportunities for men in Heiltsuk Nation. While spending time in traditional territory, the program would provide a certain re-calibration, stressing

Sometimes I’m not sure what to say about Duncanby Lodge. Owner Sid Keay will tell you it’s the Happiest Place on Earth. With tie-dyed staff and relaxed vibe Duncanby may be the finest fishing outpost in British Columbia. Located at the mouth of Rivers Inlet, a couple hours North of Port Hardy and a couple

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