Gillnetting sockeye along Vancouver Island, Part 1

摘要

I joined my friend John Stevens on the gillnetter Ganhada for the sockeye fishery in Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in June.The first opening was on Tuesday, June 7. John took the boat around from his home in Ladner at the mouth of the Fraser River, leaving on June 5, and I drove his truck over, catching the 7:45 ferry to Vancouver Island on June 6.We met up in Port Alberni at the head of Alberni Inlet and later that day headed out on the 37-foot gillnetter, traveling the lengthof the inlet and anchoring shortly before dark near his favorite setting spot, where we intended to fish at 6 a.m. the next day.