Alberni Inlet

Forty kilometres of inlet on the west side of Vancouver Island, with a dozen named places on it. The tide fills it twice a day. Visiting boats fish it first because the road runs right down to the water.

A bay, a point and a river mouth are not the same water: each sits under its own boundaries, its own closure lines and its own local habits. So each gets its own read, and every name below carries its status: read or only named.

The other locales on the inlet

Named below are locales I have not read. A name is not a read: I have not put one of these on a sheet and I will not write one from memory or from a forum thread. Each gets its own sourced page when the rules, the boundaries and at least one local pattern can be checked and dated. If you fish one of them and want it built, say so and name the water you actually stand on: tips@thetiderip.com.

Looking for local lakes or rivers?

Those are their own reads, and both are free to look at.

• Stamp River — a river read: the falls boundary, the dam, Beaver Creek. Free sample.
• Sproat Lake — a stillwater: stocked water, the regulations that actually bite. Free sample.

How this grows

One room per water, with the locales inside it, and a status on every name. Alberni Inlet lives at /alberni/; a new water gets its own room at its own address, so a link you save never has to change when the next one is added. The list of waters sits on the front page, one card each, so nothing is more than two clicks from the harbour.