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[IronNoggin]

Hot and gettin' HOTTER!
~ 40 springs to 35 pounds and a handful of coho yesterday morning. Finished on them pretty quick, so wandered over to the Hali Hole. Seven hali's and a big ray in about an hour. And.. it keeps getting better every day!

Time to get out and PLAY Ladz! 

Cheers,
Nog

[fishingbuddha]

What is the fishing like in August. I am heading up there on august 28/29th.

[Easywater]

Nog's probably out fishing so I'll give my 2 cents.

That time of the year is near the end of the season - season probably ends the 2nd week of September.
Fishing should still be good but it gets very foggy that time of the year.

Should be a ton of coho around as well as the larger springs.

[IronNoggin]

That time of the year is near the end of the season - season probably ends the 2nd week of September.
Fishing should still be good but it gets very foggy that time of the year.

Should be a ton of coho around as well as the larger springs.

Pretty much Bang ON! Toss in a lot of Hungry halibut and you've tagged the recipe for that time of year. 

Fishing continues to be brilliant! New leader board fish (over 40 pounds!) for the derby as of yesterday!!
While the coho are a little spotty as yet, the massive numbers of both springs and halibut are certainly taking up the slack!!
Tagged another hali yest that damn near went 50!!
All in all, a VERY Sweet Season underway! 

Cheers,
Nog

[Easywater]

Saw a funny post on an Alaska fishing board regarding halibut.

He said that they were into a ton of halibut (boated close to 10) and "damn near ran out of ammo!".
I thought he meant bait at first then I remembered they shoot the big halis with shotgun slugs before bringing them into the boat.

I caught a 65lb hali a few years ago in Tahsis and the guide used a harpoon tied to the boat with 1/2" rope to get it subdued!

The big ones can break legs if you bring them into the boat before they are dead.

[Damien]

Sounds like a fun season!


a big ray   Call me slow, but whats this?

[Fish Assassin]

Stingrays

[aquaboy24]

nope - no stingrays..its called a Pacific Big Skate most likely.

Iron Noggin - can your ecommend a charter up there...I will be there next weekend and would love to cash in on some fun.

thanks
Vince

[Rodney]

one of two WCVI advertisers on our site is Salmon Eye Fishing Charters, which is based in Ucluelet. Their reports lately have pretty much been the same as what Nog is reporting, excellent chinook salmon fishing!

[DavidD]

excellent chinook salmon fishing

Excellent  

Gots me a booked seat third week in August with 'Captain Todd' (derby leader) and looking forward to what should be a great adventure.  

[Fish Assassin]

nope - no stingrays..its called a Pacific Big Skate most likely.

You're correct, skates. The wings are delicious.

[oddjob]

Just got back from the Canadian Princess ,between the 2 of us we came back with 5 salmon and 1 halibut . The salmon were between 14 and 19 lbs.,the halibut was 20lbs . Just about everybody had fish .

[Fish Assassin]

How were the water conditions ?

[oddjob]

 The wind mixed in with the rollers gave 8 foot rollers with a 3 foot cross chop , basically holding on to the railing with 1 hand and jigging with the other .

[BwiBwi]

   That's nusty!!

Good thing when my buddies and I went it was 1m roller.  Otherwise I would have been chumming and jigging.