The sun filtering through the water and catching on the backs of the sockeye and the red of the fish reflecting on the underside of the surface of the water was the play of light and colour that grabbed my interest!! The sockeye salmon are an amazing rich colour of red. So intensely red in fact that, in great numbers when spawning up stream, the river itself looks red. This is especially true of the Adams River, in the Shuswap area of British Columbia.