10 incredible only-in-Canada fishing adventures for any angler’s bucket list

#4 Haida Gwaii, B.C.

This starkly beautiful, windswept archipelago off the northern B.C. coast sees massive runs of Pacific salmon, offering anglers the chance to earn their tyee pin with a 30-pound-plus chinook. Bonus: Fishing for enormous halibut.

 

#5 Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan

Giant pike and lakers patrol these waters, framed to the south by the 8,000-year-old Athabasca Sand Dunes. A quarter of the lake lies in Alberta, but it’s the northern Saskatchewan portion that lures anglers in the know.

#6 Minipi Watershed, Labrador

A peek at the catch-and-release logbooks at Coopers’ Minipi Lodges is all you need to know that this remote boreal hot spot is the place on the planet for behemoth brook trout on the fly—and maybe even a record-book fish.