Yes, but as he lives in Australia, it's kinda hard for him to go see it easily. :p

From what I heard, usually the great salmon run kinda dies away as October ends.

And the fish are not edible. The dead ones around would usually be feasted by flies or pecked by birds.

The live ones are said to have built up a lot of toxin in the body due to the excess strength to swim upstream. You can visually see the fish's life by looking at it's color in the body. It kinda goes from pinkish, and then red, and when it dies, becoming white.

+1

To be honest, I didn't even quite care about the salmon run, but it's just looking at a river really calms any person down from stress. It was also an excuse to take a day off work, spend time with family and have a new topic to talk around town.

Not only do I have a gigantic boner for any nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough, but this one was even better for having been basically in our backyard. If the BBC had to only do two things ever again, let those two be nature documentaries and Top Gear.


5 parts, well worth the watch. Some GORGEOUS shots of bears and eagles catching salmon.

^^^ Our back yard - nothing like it anywhere in the world.

We truly are lucky to call this our home. It's why people flock to this part of the world. We just have to keep it clean and keep others from destroying it.

Your back yard... my front yard growing up :) BC has samples of nearly every type of terrain, climate and environment on earth, from tundra to desert.

and the water, my god, it is the best there is...............

For those who complain about our high taxes, our high housing prices, etc. GTFO. Go back to your sub zero Edmonton streets, your acid rain covered city of Toronto, your polluted streets of......... nuff said.

I dont understand why BBC "life" series has Operah as narrator. I dont get a boner with her voice, david attenborough is so much better as a narrator.

Salmon Run ussually starts as early as July maybe even before and last all the way till end of november. They start in the pacific ocean and run thru the fraser river as its main hwy from the pacific they run into different tributaries all across bc some on the island and up the fraser river to Harrison River To the Vedder/Chilliwack River and others along the way. they are basically running to where they were born so they can lay their eggs and the males to drop their sperm and make more salmon then they die. Their body colors change from silver to what ever spawning colors.

Every odd year the pink salmon comes thru u can see them jump and come up in schools here locally in Richmond. that is why every fall the rivers and streams are packed shoulder to shoulder from people coming up here to fish them.

I fish for salmon and its more for the fight of the fish rather than take it home to eat.
Yes of course i will take one home @ the end of the day but it has the a nice silver one wether it be a Spring/Chinook Salmon, a coho or a chum but it has to be silver then if it aint the meat taste like shit!!!

+1. David Attenborough's voice = guaranteed boner for me.

any driving directions for adams river? or is it inside Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park?