Chironomids
Gammarids
The Kispiox is a small river with the biggest steelhead reputation anywhere — tea-coloured tributary water near Hazelton that has produced fly-caught fish of legendary size. It fishes best from mid-September into late October, but it's a clarity game: the Kispiox colours and rises hard after rain and the whole art is being there when it's dropping back into shape. Fish it on the swing, read the timber and the soft inside seams, and respect that a single fish here can be the fish of a lifetime.
The Kispiox is small water with an enormous reputation — a tributary of the Skeena near Hazelton that grows some of the largest steelhead in the world, fish that have figured in world-record claims for the species on a fly. It is intimate, log-strewn, tea-stained freestone that fishes beautifully when it's in shape, but it carries colour and rises hard after rain. When it's right, it's as good as steelheading gets; the trick is catching it in shape.
Wading: Log jams, rising coloured water after rain
- Glacial till
- Confined
- Pool riffle
- Small river