Nanaimo sucked.  Probably the worst trip ever, we had logistical problems, were hassled and ripped off by the police, and the fishing sucked due to the driest year in recent history.  Months before, I made plans to extend with DJ after the trip, and ended up canceling at the last minute due to a job change.  I went 5 days early, and found great fishing in the north of the island.  The run was great, steelhead, pink salmon, kings and sea-run trout were all there at once.  The bad news was I couldn't share it with the Kids as we were not able to drive the extra 2 hours north to the good water.

Group Photo (Matt Miller showed up later on)

Edge & Nasty tough it out with virtually no water to fish.

Nasty with a Pink caught in the Campbell                     Campbell river steelhead

river. There were thousands of these things

 in the river.