Rodney Hsu says he has found too many Fraser River sockeye in places they aren’t supposed to be this season—from residential areas to gravel roads, wrapped up in garbage bags and rotting in the open air. Hsu, the man behind sport fishing website “Fishing with Rod,” is among those who say the dumped salmon carcasses…

If size counts for anything, it proves the fishing tour business on the Fraser River in B.C. is back on track after a two-year upset. Just ask fishing guide Yves Bison, 47, who last spring caught the second largest sturgeon he’s ever seen. The tour guide of 20 years boasts a 100 percent catch rate…

Two residents of Sumas Prairie in the Abbotsford, B.C., area near the Canada-U.S. border have launched a class action lawsuit against three levels of government seeking damages for losses caused by flooding last November. In mid-November 2021, southern B.C. was hit by heavy rains that led to two breaches of the Sumas dike, causing the…

This year’s fishing season in Frasier Valley picked up with a bang, after tourism previously ground to a halt in the wake of pandemic restrictions. Chilliwack fishing guide Kevin Estrada—who’s fished the Fraser River since he was 15—had to call Guinness World Records after catching a monster sturgeon mid-August. The guide who runs Sturgeon Slayers,…

It was a memorable weekend on the Fraser River in B.C. for a fishing tour that reeled in a “once-in-a-lifetime” monster sturgeon in July. A group of Fraser River Lodge corporate clients hooked a fish that their guide said was the biggest they’d ever caught in his 26 years in the recreational fishing business. The…