Trevor Nowak is a part-time fisheries biologist and full-time fly
enthusiast who lives in Campbell River, British Columbia. When he is
not conducting snorkel counts of salmon and steelhead in the Campbell
or examining juvenile salmon for sea lice, you can usually find him
exploring the back roads of North Vancouver Island with his father and
mentor, Wally. As Trevor puts it, ̉there is no better place to get lost
in search of coastal cutthroat trout and steelhead than on the North
Island back roads, just try not to get run off the road by a logging
truck!
Trevor's passion for the sport of fly fishing and the art of fly tying
was fostered by, Wally. Growing up in Southern Ontario, Wally was
responsible for teaching his son the importance of conservation,
aquatic ecology and fly fishing, while exploring the great lakes
tributaries for brookies and browns. At eighteen, Trevor left Ontario
to study Natural Resource Conservation at the University of British
Columbia. There, he met Erin, a beautiful BC girl who was able to share
his enthusiasm for conservation and tolerate his passion for fly
fishing. In Campbell River, they both work to protect local streams and
green spaces that play host to native trout and salmon populations.
During the summer, the two spend time working in the Canadian Arctic at
Plummer's Tree River lodge in Nunavut. As former manager and head guide
at Canada's No. 1 destination for sea-run arctic char, Trevor has had
the opportunity to fish all three coast lines of Canada.
I have been very lucky in my life time to fish all across this
country. Whether it's Atlantic salmon, steelhead or Arctic Char, Canada
has some of the best fishing in the world, coast to coast to coast. We
just need to make sure that it stays that way for years to come.
Trevor Nowak