Altamont Anglers guide Teo Whitlock recently accepted a generous invitation to visit the Cliffs Communities^© fishing lodge on the Kispiox River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Gordon Wadley, Teo's guide on the Kispiox, with Teo's first-day steelhead (click image for larger view)

Asheville residents are familiar with the Cliffs Communities,^© private golf, master planned communities, extending between Asheville, North Carolina and Greenville, South Carolina at the leading edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Less widely know are the "retreats" developed by the company: lodges set in environmentally pristine, remote locations.

The Cliffs at Kispiox River^© is a fishing lodge right on the banks of one of the world's finest steelhead rivers. The newly arrived "chromers" represent the pinnacle of fly-rodding, matching their size and beauty with awsome strength and fighting spirit. Indeed, the fish on the left had strength enough to slip Teo's grasp with one mighty twist just before Gordon could snap the shutter for a shot of Teo holding his trophy (we've included the resulting photo of Teo's "early release" in the gallery below, for the purely sadistic purpose of his embarrassment).

If you're interested in joining Teo for a return trip to the Kispiox, please send questions or comments by clicking here .

For more info on the Cliffs Communities^©, click here. For more on the Cliffs at Kispiox^©, click here.

Click the photos in the gallery below for larger views of the lodge, the gorgeous mountains of BC, the majestic Kispiox River, and (of course) Teo "releasing" his first steelhead:

(Altamont Anglers operates on Pisgah National Forest Rivers under USDA Forest Service Permit #PIS6560)