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Fishing Report for March 18, 2020
There hasn’t been much fishing activity this week, due to high winds. Chinook fishing should still be good at Thrasher and the Grande, but the herring have just spawned, and that leads to more eccentric behaviour.
read more...GROWLS presents: Skunk cabbage
The Western Skunk Cabbage lysichiton americanum is found in many areas of Gabriola where there are streams, wet ditches, swamps, moist forests and mucky seepage spots.
read more...Gabriola Reads returns!
Mark your calendars for Friday evening, September 18th as the 2nd Gabriola Reads event returns to the Community Hall. Gabriola Reads, patterned after CBC’s Canada Reads, features five champions defending a novel of their choice based on a theme.
read more...Gabriola Talks: Reducing our climate impact
At the upcoming Gabriola Talks session on climate change (Sunday March 8th) we’ll be asking Gabriolans to map out specific strategies to reduce our collective climate impact. The main topic areas will be transportation, food, and consumption and waste.
read more...Gabriolan named to national rugby squad
A Gabriolan will be playing his heart out on a rugby pitch in Portugal this month.
read more...Fishing Report for February 5, 2020
read more...Fishing Report for January 29, 2020
Try fishing Thrasher to green can, or Grande to the waterfall bottom bouncing in 135 to 200 feet in depth. The Cookies and Cream or Evil Eye spoon, T-Rex or Blue Meany hoochie, or anchovy in Rhys Davis teasers are best baits. Remember to release the undersized Chinook very gently, keeping handling to a minimum!
read more...‘Bread basket’ of Gabriola adds salt to the mix
In the winter time, when the air is cold and the tide is high, Emma Carter wades into Lock Bay. She’s there to harvest sea salt for her nascent Gabriola company, Salt & Co.
read more...GIRO raises $1,133.70 in book donations to support Hot Lunch Program
Four years ago, GIRO Re-Store Manager Janice Ursaliak spearheaded an initiative to donate the money collected from book sale donations at GIRO for the month of December to PHC to support the hot lunch program.
read more...Fishing Report for January 15, 2020
The weather just did not cooperate this week! High winds, rain, and generally unfit conditions kept people off the water, so I have no intel to report.
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