Nimmo Bay Helicopter Fishing & Wilderness Adventures

"This is as sexy as fishing gets. You’ll have a helicopter built for two to whisk you off to any salmon filled river that beckons."

"Here at the foot of Mount Stephens, in an idyllic cove named by Kenneth Mackenzie, an 1800s Victoria land-owner - a billiard hall? Craig Murray becomes quite animated in his explanation of how the full size snooker table was flown in by a single Otter aircraft. "We brought the ‘Brunswick’ guy in with it to see that it was setup exactly to specs."

"Some things can never be exported. Heli-Fishing, the most unbelievable adventure of a lifetime. "An extremely competent operation combining superb fishing in beautiful places with an intense concern for the environment. An extraordinary marriage between enterprise and the conservation ethic."

"It all began with the cookie. Chocolate chip if you must know, lurking with others in a small glass jar discreetly placed in our spotless cabin. It was a simple cookie, but it changed me forever …"

"For hundreds of years the french essayist Montaigne wrote, "Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone; and often calls us to it." It is still true to today. Nimmo Bay allows you to answer that ageless call."

"John Fraser, the former speaker of the House, called it the ‘perfect marriage between business and the conservation ethic.’ "

"The worlds best adventures. The perfect holiday for over achievers like us."

"Bring along 17 of your closest friends for the ultimate stag, take them, say, sea kayaking up the inside passage, river rafting down a glacial melt, or fishing for steelhead on a wilderness river."

This year United Airlines featured Nimmo Bay as their wilderness adventure venue for their Mileage Plus program. 

This article featured one of the Nimmo Bay special 6 day adventure programs, Heli-Rafting B.C.’s wild Klini Klini river.

"Tucked in to a lush inlet above the northern tip of Vancouver island, Nimmo Bay offers a pristine refuge from the noise of modern living; nine cozy, well appointed inter-tidal chalets, excellent cuisine, two steaming hot tubs – and no TVs in the rooms."

"With at least two helicopters at their beck and call, guests are quite literally minutes away from whale watching, spelunking, white water rafting, kayaking, picnicking at the foot of a glacier, heli-hiking or beach combing. There’s so much to do. Me, I fished. I caught my first salmon ever on a fly rod, a pink so beautiful, I had to tell my heart to start beating again."

Being the first tourism organization ever to win the BC Government’s Environment Award for Industry, Business and Labour, Nimmo Bay was featured on the cover of the 2000 BC Accommodations Guide.

Nimmo Bay was featured in an International Visa commercial.

"At Nimmo Bay they don’t take you where the fish aren’t biting, and they don’t take Mastercard."

NBC featured Nimmo Bay for it’s environmental approach.

ESPN’s sport fishing shows featured Nimmo Bay.

"We hug cliff faces where seabirds nest in crevices; the islands ahead fade with the distance into hazy shades of blue and green, and the waters in the inlets below are the color of emeralds from the glacial streams that feed them. I feel like I’m in a movie."

The Travel Channel did a segment on Nimmo Bay as one of the world’s premiere adventure destinations.

ABC News did a segment at Nimmo Bay about eco-tourism.

"This trip is really no fair. We’re sorry, but it is our contention that the heli-fishing expedition put together by Nimmo Bay Resort exceeds industry wide levels of acceptable excitement."

"A refugee from California’s film business heads to remote British Columbia for a little R&R and some remedial salmon fishing. Along the way, he has a revelation: Standing in a river waiting for a bite can scrub away anything superfluous…"

"A refugee from California’s film business heads to remote British Columbia for a little R&R and some remedial salmon fishing. Along the way, he has a revelation: Standing in a river waiting for a bite can scrub away anything superfluous…"

"We hover for a moment, rocking, free-floating, playing odd games with gravity, and then in a rush we leap upward, past mountains, over mountains and up into the blue sky…"

"The helicopter scoops us up for one last ride to the foot of Silverthrone Glacier. We float above the massive crystalline field of aqua-blue crevasses and gaping caves, then circle around and cruise down a long strip of blackened ice that looks amazingly like a straight tarred road."

"For thousands of hectares, it’s trees, rivers, alpine lakes, mountains and wild things, accessible only by helicopter."

"Nimmo Bay Resort has received several awards for its environmental preservation efforts. The resort recycles all of their garbage and uses environmentally sound cleaning products. Fishing at Nimmo Bay is 100% catch and release."

"With an assist from a helicopter, a nimble fly fisherman, or, for that matter, a sweaty palmed neophyte, could be deposited on a gravel bar in an otherwise inaccessible river and, after a few casts, or maybe just one cast, have an epiphany with a two-fisted salmon that in ones lifetime catalogue of sublime memories would rank perhaps a notch below the birth of ones children…"

"The repeat business is 75%, and the list of luminaries includes Sir Richard Branson, Jimmy Pattison, George Bush Sr. and other notables the owner discreetly chooses not to name."

"Tucked into a thickly wooded inlet on the British Columbia mainland 200 miles northwest of Vancouver, Nimmo Bay regularly hosts the likes of Boeing’s chairman and other gentry. You’ll see why when you arrive, stepping from one of the private helicopters to a cluster of nine cedar-wood chalets, tidal boardwalks, and a floating lodge…The food is splendid and the service is meticulous but never stuffy."

"350 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, on the mainland, whirlybirds whisk you to remote fishing spots and other adventure destinations across a 78,000 square kilometre expanse of wilderness ranging in elevation fromm sea level to 2,100 metres. Later, fly back to the lodge from a waterfall hot tub and a gourmet meal."

A pristine Land of Dreams. "where the spirit of life dwells…that’s where you want to be"

"Tucked into a massive expanse of Canadian woodland 320 km northwest of Vancouver, Nimmo Bay attracts visitors in search of the ultimate in security, seclusion and serenity."

"On top of the world"

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"Take your pick of a private yacht or helicopter to whisk through unknown territory and immerse yourself in First Nations culture."

"The pursuit of worthy adversaries takes many fishermen to the last frontiers of wilderness. This is one of our sport’s many blessings, the opportunity to escape the ordinary, to venture to distant locales and unfamiliar waters."

"There is a fishing lodge in British Columbia it’s called Nimmo Bay. Best fishing lodge in the world."

William Shatner