British Columbia · Canada

Silver Hilton Steelhead Lodge

British Columbia If catching a wild steelhead is on your bucket list—and if it’s not, it should be, as it ranks among the most-difficult-to-catch-yet-most-rewarding sport fish on the planet—then Silver Hilton on the Babine River is your place. The lodge offers a true wilderness experience, some fifty-five miles from the town of Smithers, which is the closest thing to civilization around and the place from which guests are helicoptered in. The Babine has some of the world’s healthiest steelhead runs and its fish are known for their size—up to thirty pounds. The lodge has two camps: the main one, which sleeps eight in well-appointed log cabins, and the Triple Header, seven miles upriver. Silver Hilton fishes more than twenty miles of water, using jet boats to reach pools. They are large and long—knowing how to cast a double-handed fly rod offers an advantage—and guests have them all to the