Tim Milne

200 episodes! It’s a daunting number and in a crazy age of television production and migration to all things digital and online, it remains pretty cool. I was fortunate to start Ridelounge Productions more than 25 years ago and produced Sacred Ride Backcountry Snowboarding Series and World Cup Snowboardcross and Mountain Bike for well over […]

Shearwater has remained an important piece of coastal infrastructure for a long time. With a marina and moorage, hotels, restaurant and full-service shipyard, the place has long been a key stopover for boaters, yachters and marine industry workers. Since it’s early days it’s also been a prime fishing locale. Just prior to pandemic times, the

Man…time flies.  Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I started fishing Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy and the  world-class angling zone that lay South of Bella Bella and Denny Island.  Those old fishing days were spent aboard the MV Ocean Explorer, a now defunct sport fishing  and heli-skiing operation that featured a sweet 110-foot beauty

I’ve been incredibly fortunate to participate in the Percy Walkus Hatchery Broodstock Fishery for the past eight seasons in Rivers Inlet. But I’ve never been so lucky as this past summer to participate in the egg take on the Chuckwalla River! Located in Wuikinuxv Traditional Territory, the Percy Walkus Hatchery looks after the Chuckwalla, Kilbella

Like any good road trip, the run from Bella Bella to Rivers Inlet is a classic slice of navigating British Columbia’s Inside Passage and Great Bear Rainforest. Somewhere around 60 miles from Bella Bella to Duncanby Lodge can find you cruising in comfort or getting your ass handed to you by Mother Ocean. When the

As we really got rolling early season up in Prince Rupert and the Bella Bella home base set up for Spring and Summer, it was time to hunker down forSpring on the BC Central Coast. With the new Big Coast BV30 under construction up in Rupert, it was time to run a whole smorgasbord of

  It’s been a big year on the Big Coast with a whole lotta change going on! In addition to a move to some incredible new sponsors in Bridgeview and Mercury Marine, Big Coast set up shop and a new home base at Bridgeview Denny Island, aka the Bella Bella Cannery. Bridgeview Marine purchased the

Over the past couple decades I’ve been incredibly fortunate to spend a ton of time in Great Bear Rainforest. Home to Coastal First Nations, the area represents one of the last great temperate rainforests on Earth and is home to enough Apex predators to rival Africa’s Serengeti. The Great Bear Rainforest is also a Mecca

Here we go 2024! From all of us with the Big Coast family to you and yours, we offer up best wishes for the New Year and a highly prosperous and meaningful 2024! With each New Year comes a pile of fresh optimism, and Big Coast could not be in a cooler place kicking off