Mary L. Peachin
Vol. 9 No. 7
Eagles outnumber the Heerman’s gulls that are dive bombing schooling herring—frenzied into bait balls as they feast on plankton krill. Nearby, humpback whales breach and fin as if waving to salmon anglers who barely have time to notice. Someone radios that three black bears are grubbing for food in Bruin Bay. For the serious angler, the rugged three by two mile Haida Gwaii island of Langara is as close as it gets to a heavenly fishing kingdom in the Queen Charlotte Islands of northern British Columbia.