Flyfishing for Rainbow on Chilko Lake

Sockeye salmon by the 100's of thousands swim the 620-mile journey from the ocean up the Fraser, Chilcotin, and Chilko rivers to spawn on the gravel shores of Chilko Lake in the remote Tsylos Provincial Park of British Columbia. Following them are all kinds of predators, from the birds and bears feeding on spent salmon to the rainbow and bull trout feeding on the salmon eggs, to the anglers feeding on the rainbow trout. Here my lifelong buddy Mark Jones, way up in the food chain, flycasts his egg-sucking leach pattern across the salmon spawning beds (called "redds") hoping to tangle with 20+ inch rainbows. Of course I'm on board too (hidden beneath the blue bimni top) piloting the DJI drone that took the shot from 100 feet above.

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Sockeye salmon by the 100's of thousands swim the 620-mile journey from the ocean up the Fraser, Chilcotin, and Chilko rivers to spawn on the gravel shores of Chilko Lake in the remote Tsylos Provincial Park of British Columbia. Following them are all kinds of predators, from the birds and bears feeding on spent salmon to the rainbow and bull trout feeding on the salmon eggs, to the anglers feeding on the rainbow trout. Here my lifelong buddy Mark Jones, way up in the food chain, flycasts his egg-sucking leach pattern across the salmon spawning beds (called "redds") hoping to tangle with 20+ inch rainbows. Of course I'm on board too (hidden beneath the blue bimni top) piloting the DJI drone that took the shot from 100 feet above.