Don't walk into a run below fly fisherman because they cast swing and then step downstream and repeat they tend to get hostile if you low hole them.
Get polaroids to see into the water, you will see the lanes the salmon are tracking thru and can cast accordingly.
Get a tide chart for the Kitimat, the salmon come in on the tide. Don't be affraid to bottom bounce for salmon on the Kitimat instead of plunking, also a float rig works as well. Talk to the guys at Home Harware in town they will give you some good info. Some of the easiest places to salmon fish first time on the Kitimat are the hatchery run, giant spruce, powerline and clay banks can be good as well. In the lower river below the hatchery you will see the vehicles and trailers so it won't be hard to figure out where people are fishing most people fishing the lower river will be plunking so if you decide to do it make your own rod holder before you go and make sure your spin-in glow and hotchie are in a lane the fish are using.
When your in Terrace head down to the Island Park in town and see if they are catching sockeye, best method is to swing a streamer to shore and don't wade out into the river it will just push the sockeye further off the bank making the cast that much longer.
I fish the Kitimat in the spring for steelhead never heard of any summer run and I fish the Skeena and its tribs mostly the Bulkley in October for steelhead. You will have good luck with salmon in a month on both but not sure about steelhead.
There might be a summer steelhead run on Lakelse river not positive though, it is between Kitimat and Terrace. I have fished it in the spring when the Kitimat is blown out and you get the odd steelhead then. The river is bank to bank dollies though and will they hit any silver or blue streamer swung near the bottom.
Good luck and have fun the Kitimat chinook are red flesh and good eating the coho are tasty as well but you can't beat the sockeye if they are retaining them on the Skeena.
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