1/9/2024 0 Comments Kens hook slab grabber![]() Although not hot and heavy, each day has seen many nice Chinook taken on the afternoon ebb and low slack tide. In addition, these conditions have also allowed us work the points and kelp beds extra hard in search of big Chinook salmon. This has made for great days on the water, as whale spouts and other wildlife can be spotted from miles away. The past few days have consisted of ideal water conditions, with calm seas being the norm. (Check out Glenda’s 34 pounder in the photo above!) Here’s to hoping we can hook into one of them tomorrow! This meant that a few Tyees came in today. After lunch things slowed down a bit but we managed to hook and land a hard-fighting twenty-pounder on our final pass of the afternoon!īack at the dock I heard three rings of the bell on three separate occasions while cleaning my boat. ![]() Double header! This father-son duo played these fish like pros and we soon bagged two mid-teeners. I quickly started clearing our back line when the right rod buried into the water and all of a sudden my other guest now had his first ever salmon on the line. While approaching the Point, the left rod started to pump and my one guest was quick to grab the rod and set the hook on his first ever salmon. Then we drifted down to Parker Point with the northwest winds that started this morning. My two guests are on their first ever salmon fishing trip and they kicked it off in fine form! We started the day at Bird Rock 2 and saw a couple of other boats hook fish, but were eventually pushed out by an abundance of floating kelp that made it tough to keep the lines down. Our weekday trip is now underway, with new guests arriving this morning. ![]() Back at the Bell Ringer, everyone was having a good time on Sunday night, celebrating their day’s catch and an overall fun weekend at QCL! Once again the afternoon ebb tide seemed to produce the best fishing of the day for both salmon and bottom fish. This worked out quite well, as the majority of our fish were being caught in the waters from Eagle Rock to Green Point, making the run to the top side quite pleasant. It’s a great start to the trip and we’re looking forward to heading out tomorrow and getting into some more salmon and… going offshore to do some bottom fishing!Ĭalm waters continued through the remainder of our weekend trip. Also we saw two other really good fish landed. In what sounded like a fairly spotty day on the grounds, we hooked roughly a dozen fish, kept three, and released a few smaller ones. As the tide was flooding we worked hard to not lose the school. Staying on top of a pocket of fish is always key. As I watched some of the boats drift down wind I fought to stay in the spot we hooked up. ![]() There’s fish there! We landed both fish, a nice little Coho and a beautiful 19-pound Chinook. ![]() This is always a bit of a chaotic way to start a trip but for me it also is very positive. Fishing up at Slab Rock we had a few missed hits but our first hookup was a double header. I placed my bets that the northwest winds had pushed a few fish over to our eastern fishing grounds. It’s kind of a roll of the dice.Īs we left the harbour in One-O-Four, we were one of the last boats off the dock. Today was another changeover and as all the guides waited on the dock to meet our newest guests the question is always where to fish today. With the strong northwest winds we had last week fishing has been a little scratchy. ![]()
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