Gabriola Sounder

Fishing Report for July 4, 2017

Chinook fishing has been relatively strong this week. The Flat Tops, Grande, Thrasher and the Fingers have all been producing fish in the 7 to 20 pound range.

Fishing Report for June 27, 2017

Well, the weather didn’t cooperate, and the chinook were in small schools on short bite times, but the 2017 Silva Bay Salmon Derby was a resounding success.

Hilary Peach opens California exhibition celebrating tradeswomen and their craft

Gabriolan Hilary Peach (poet, welder, blacksmith and performance artist) gave a performance and taught a workshop as part of the opening of Rivet: An Exhibition on Women in the Trades at the Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, in San Luis Obispo, California.

Vendors welcome for Community Garage Sale at the Commons

Fishing Report for June 20, 2017

Fishing seems to have improved somewhat, and the plankton is starting to dissipate. We’re all hoping for light winds, and lots of fish.

The new GERTIE Bus name is...

One hundred per cent, we are grateful to VLS in Folklife Village for donating 1% of their June profits to our Gabriola Environmentally Responsible Trans-Isle Express.

#sluglife. Timelapse of Gabriola slug races past one million views

A spontaneous time-lapse of a Pacific Banana slug munching down on a dandelion leaf on Gabriola has garnered well over a million views on Facebook, making it arguably the most viral piece of content to take the name of Gabriola Island worldwide.

Boutique de Paris wins top potential business pitch

As part of the ongoing Recycling Program at the Elementary School grade six/seven students were divided into pairs and given the challenge to create a hypothetical, viable, green, sustainable business idea using a commodity that has already had a life/use.

Fishing Report for June 13, 2017

Sharpen those hooks, put on the lucky fishing hat, and buy a new jar of smelly jelly, cause the humongous, terrific, scintillating, fabulous, fantastic, other worldly, mystifying, gigantic, Silva Bay Salmon Derby is coming June 17 and 18!

Pritchett boards C3 voyage connecting all three oceans

Gabriolan and country musician Aaron Pritchett was one of the lucky passengers aboard the Canada C3 Polar Prince, taking part in the first 10 days of the vessel’s voyage through all three of Canada’s oceans by way of the Northwest Passage.